(Je pensais que le NEPAD exigeait en moyenne 64
milliards de dollars d aide/investissement annuels?..
je loue Mbeki pour son honnetete sur ce cas precis
mais ses commentaires prouvent encore une fois que le
probleme fondamental est celui de la bonne
gouvernance, tout le reste suit)
Africa cannot absorb more aid, says Mbeki
Hannes de Wet | Pretoria
04 June 2003 07:56
Africa had bitten off as much aid as it could chew
with the development package the G8 industrialised
nations had agreed to fund, President Thabo Mbeki said
on Tuesday.
"We have bitten as much as we can chew. If we had
tried to take a bigger bite... we would not have been
able to absorb it," he told reporters in Pretoria.
"What would happen is that we would produce
disappointment. With all these resources committed,
(people would ask) what are these Africans doing now?
They are not using it."
Mbeki was reporting back on this week's G8 summit in
Evian, France, which gave the go-ahead for several
detailed African development projects.
This was in support of the New Partnership for
Africa's Development (Nepad), an African Union (AU)
strategy to uplift the continent.
Mbeki attended the G8 meeting along with the four
other African architects of Nepad, which acknowledges
that sound government is a pre-requisite for
development.
Mbeki said having obtained aid from rich countries put
a burden on Africa to produce results. The European
Union (EU) alone had set aside EU1-billion (about
R9,4-billion) a year to deal with water problems on
the continent.
"We must be able in each of our countries to say this
is our water development programme. These are the
resources we are putting in."
It had happened, for example, in South Africa that
water pumping schemes came to a standstill because a
generator broke down or because it was not refuelled.
"You can imagine what happens in other countries less
developed than this one."
Mbeki said Nepad clearly needed a body to help ensure
that projects were being put into practice.
This structure should be able to inform countries, for
example, how much money was available to develop water
resources and monitor progress in this regard.
"It should also assist with meeting the capacity
constraint to access those funds."
The EU announced at the summit it had voted an annual
EU3,7-billion (about R34,9-billion) for programmes
additional to those it already had in Africa.
"That is a lot of money. They expressed a serious
concern -- and I think quite correctly -- about the
capacity of the continent to spend that money," Mbeki
said
"That's why I am saying we need an implementation
organ within Nepad to interact with our constituency,
which is the African continent, to be able to absorb
those funds."
Mbeki said it would be a complex matter to integrate
and co-ordinate the aid agreed upon.
Each of the G8 member countries would, for example,
make its own national commitment. Then there was the
EU, which had its own agreements with the continent.
Britain mooted the idea of setting up an additional
international financial facility to solve the problem.
"In addition to what the continent might be doing
bilaterally with all of these players, you need a fund
that is centralised... for all these different (aid)
projects."
Mbeki said the summit also gave the go-ahead for a
plan to develop an African capacity to promote peace
and security on the continent.
This provided for setting up an African standby force
that would include five regional brigades. It should
enable the AU to undertake complex peace support
operations by 2010.
"The matter is agreed (that) Africa needs this
capacity. The continent now has to do the costing. The
financing will come as soon we are able to say these
are the specific financial needs," Mbeki said. - Sapa
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