New Partnership for Africa's Development

African continent has witnessed many tragic§historical peculiarities from the advent of§colonialism up to the present day. Most African§nations inherited colonial political and§socioeconomic structures as legacies through which§national development processes were pursued. Up til§the late 20th Century, the development indexes of the§continent remained largely unequaled and inebriated.§§Nepad has initiated vitally important sector-specific§policy goals as action plans set for implementation.§The process through which the policy goals are to be§achieved is equally critical but has been subsumed in§the current debate and in the implementation domain§of Nepad. The implementation processes are afflicted§with complexities and unique unanticipated§contingencies. Major impediments to implementation§have always been neglected, absence of considerations§for peculiar contingencies that underlie the§processes. This study seeks to undertake comparative§analysis of the precursory regional development§policy initiatives, especially the European Union s§[EU s] implementation configuration, where§applicable, as parameters in the implementation§process of Nepad.