The 2006 Annual Meeting of the SSATP was held October 28 - November 3, 2006 in Maseru, the capital city of Lesotho. The meeting, a strategic milestone for the Program, ushered in the final year of the current Long Term Development Plan (LTDP) and chartered out the way forward for SSATP beyond 2007. It took into account the findings and recommendations of the LTDP-Output to Purpose Review (OPR) and the changing infrastructure development climate, in particular, the opportunities for Africa’s infrastructure development represented by the response by donors to the AU-Nepad’s Infrastructure Development Plan. The response by donors have resulted in a number of initiatives, key among which are the EU-Africa Partnership on Infrastructure, the World Bank-Africa Action Plan and the AfDB/NEPAD’s initiative. Presentations and meetings provided a wider context for the discussion on the strategic direction for the remaining period of the LTDP and beyond 2007. A total of 291 people participated in the meeting including 251 delegates from 36 Sub-Sahara African countries. Officials from the European Commission (EC), the Irish Aid, the British Departmentfor International Development (DfID), the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the World Bank represented the donor organizations. In addition, eight African institutions andregional economic communities were represented as well as a number of Associations/Fora of the regional bodies. For more information, visit the Annual Meeting 2006 Proceedings page and other links on the right.  |  |
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