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LATEST FROM ADDIS ABABA #AUSUMMIT *************************************************************** Highlights of the discussion at the meeting of the NEPAD steering Committee 1. NEPADs collective presence is continental, with development interventions leveraging impacts in 50 countries. These interventions are oriented towards trans formative impact and results. 2. 25 million farmers to reach climate smart technologies by 2025 through NEPAD programmes. 3. 50 out of 54 AU countries engaged in the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) which is a NEPAD Programme. 40 countries signed up to CAADP Compact to give agriculture priority. 4. NEPAD has established the first climate Change Fund in Africa worth 4 million Euros 5. NEPAD has joined AU in the fight against Ebola – Clinical vaccine trials underway 6. NEPAD is fast-tracking approval process for Ebola vaccine trials. EAC to conduct clinical trials of Ebola vaccine on February 2, in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania 7. NEPAD is mobilising AU countries to put in place enabling environments for conducting Ebola clinical trials and other therapies
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:18:15 +0000

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