Africa and the G8 Civil Society Planning Conference

Dear Friends,

Please find attached the report of the "Africa and the G8 Civil Society
Planning Conference", which was held in Ottawa on October 21-22, 2001.  The
report is made up of the following parts:

File 1: conference report
File 2: three presentations from the conference
File 3: an analysis of the New African Initiative document
File 4: the New Partnership for Africa's Development document
File 5: participants list

We are pleased with the outcome of the conference.  It has helped raise the
profile of the New African Initiative (now called the New Partnership for
Africa's Development) in Canada and we hope that in the months to come many
organizations and individuals across Canada will participate in discussions
on Africa during the lead up to the G8 Summit in June 2002.

We also hope that this report will help to inform and stimulate discussion
in Africa, where awareness of the New African Initiative remains limited.
We are encouraging civil society groups in many African countries to
organize roundtables as a means to promote dialogue around priority issues.
We commit ourselves to help bring the results of these roundtables to the
attention of the government of Canada in the hope that the voices of African
civil society will be heard and will help contribute to the development of
policies beneficial to Africa.  We will keep you informed of new initiatives
that we and others will be undertaking over the coming months.

We encourage you to share this report with others and we very much welcome
your comments on the report and on the process in hand.  The report and
supporting documents in French will be circulated in a few days.

A-Dialogue David Onyalo
Alternatives Pierre Beaudet
Partnership Africa Canada Bernard Taylor
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