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Final Review: United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa
INFORMATION NOTE

Independent Panel of Eminent Personalities

The Panel of Eminent Personalities on the Independent Evaluation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s (UN-NADAF) was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in August 2001. He was acting in response a request by the General Assembly to commission an independent, high-level evaluation of UN-NADAF. The panel also was urged to recommend future actions and possible successor arrangements.

In addition to the twelve members of the panel itself (see below), there was a team of four consultants. To solicit a wide range of views on UN-NADAF for preparation of the panel's report, those consultants interviewed 316 persons, during visits to 13 countries in Africa, three in Asia and one in Latin America, as well as to eight donor countries. Those interviewed included staff belonging to 14 UN entities and 15 non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations, including the European Union and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Members of the Panel

Dr. Kahlid Alioua former Minister for Social Development, Morocco Tel: (212) 61 22 18 18 Fax: (212) 37 77 05 93 khalid_alioua@hotmail.com Dr. Denis Benn Professor of Public Affairs/Policy, University of West Indies, Jamaica Tel: (1-876) 9779376 (o); or (1-876) 9251404 (h) Fax: (1-876) 9776593 dbenn@uwimona.edu.jm Dr. Kwesi Botchwey (Panel Chairman) former Minister of Finance of Ghana, Director of Africa Research and Programmes, Center for International Development, Harvard University Tel: (1-617) 495 9530 Fax: (1-617) 496 8753 kwesi_botchwey@harvard.edu Mr. Antoine Dakoure former Minister of Planning, Burkina Faso Tel: (33-1) 34 24 03 95 (H) Tel: (33-6) 21 79 38 24 (mobile) Fax: (33-1) 60 15 42 07 Mr. Gosta Edgren former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sweden Tel: (468) 612 7471 Fax: (468) 532 827 05 g.edgren@home.se g.m.edgren@telia.com Sir Richard Jolly former Deputy Executive Director of the UN Children's Fund, professor emeritus, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK Tel: (44 1273) 606261 Fax: (44 1273) 6210202 / 691647 r.jolly@ids.ac.uk

Mr. Yasushi Kurokochi former Ambassador and Special Envoy of Japan to the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Tel: (81) 3 3501-1878 Fax: (81) 3 3501-1879 asj@tkc.att.ne.jp Mr. Alexander Love (US) former Chairman, Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Tel: (1-410) 745 5305 or (1-202) 966 4348 Fax: (1-202) 966 1935 or (1-410) 745 9342 Marlove@crosslink.net Dr. Ali A. Mazrui (Kenya) Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, New York Tel: (1-607) 777-4494 Fax: (1-607) 777-2642 amazrui@binghamton.edu Ms. Linah K. Mohohlo Governor, Central Bank of Botswana Tel: (267) 360 6371/67/79 Fax: (267) 371 231 kgobokol@bob.bw Mr. Rene Valery Mongbe former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Benin to the United Nations Tel: (229) 33 18 39 / 90 39 83 Fax: (229) 30 37 08 / 30 19 70 adec@avu.org Mr. Kanwar Natwar Singh former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, India Tel: (91-11) 3019080 or 3012692 or 3019606 Fax: (91-11) 301-1789 / 379-4117

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