Assembly/AU/Dec.283(XIV) Page 1 DECISION ON THE INTEGRATION OF THE NEW PARTNERHSIP FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT (NEPAD) INTO THE STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES OF THE AFRICAN UNION INCLUDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEPAD PLANNING AND COORDINATING AGENCY (NPCA) The Assembly, 1. RECALLS AND REAFFIRMS the Decision of the Second Session of the Assembly in Maputo of July 2003, the 13-Point Conclusions of the Algiers New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Brainstorming Meeting of March 2007 as endorsed by the Tenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Addis Ababa in February 2008 and the outcomes of the Dakar NEPAD Review Summit of April 2008 as the basis for the integration of NEPAD into the structures and processes of the African Union (AU); 2. FURTHER RECALLS the adoption of NEPAD as a programme of the AU by the Thirty-seventh Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the then Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Lusaka, Zambia, in July 2001 and REITERATES that the NEPAD vision and programme had since inception remained an intrinsic part of the African Union; 3. NOTES the key recommendations contained in the consultancy-study report on AU/NEPAD Integration commissioned in December 2008 and the similarity of views of the African Union Commission and the NEPAD Secretariat on the recommendations as well as the broad consultations with various African stakeholders; 4. ENDORSES the recommendations of the 21st NEPAD Heads of State and Government Implementation Committee (HSGIC) as re-submitted by the 22nd HSGIC on the integration of NEPAD into the structures and processes of the African Union; 5. HEREBY APPROVES: a. The establishment of the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA) as a technical body of the African Union in replacement of the NEPAD Secretariat with the mandate to: i. Facilitate and coordinate the implementation of the continental and regional priority programmes and projects; Adopted by the Fourteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 2 February 2010