Despite the fact that it was on the agenda, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) received very little English Indymedia coverage during the Evian G8. NEPAD is an initiative by the G8 group of industrialized countries, with the proclaimed aim of fostering regional development in Africa. Critics suggest that its acronym more accurately reflects the true intent of the initiative, saying that it is a neoliberal structural adjustment program in disguise, and that it is designed to keep Africa in a position to service the needs of the dominant industrial economies.

During the last G8 Summit in Canada, Indymedia Cambridge caught up with a member of the Groupe de recherche et initiative de libération d'Afrique (Group for Research and Initiative for the Liberation of Africa), and shot this video interview. For more information on NEPAD, there is a primer at  http://www.grila.com/nepad_body.htm. More information about NEPAD can be found at  http://www.grila.com.

Commentary from Allafrica.com can be found at  http://allafrica.com/stories/200306050543.html
An article about the Evian summit from the Canadian NGO Alternatives can be found at  http://www.alternatives.ca/article706.html.

NEPAD policies are now in their implementation phase, visit the G8 website at  http://www.g8.fr/ or the NEPAD website at  http://www.nepad.com/ to find out more about the structure of the agreement.