Focus Groups

The programme is largely planned around the integral dialogue of eight Focus Groups, which have been identified by the ADF Management Committee and whose Conveners have been given the responsibility to identify priority discussion areas and kick off electronic discussions prior to the Forum itself. Core members from each Focus Group will meet prior to the opening of the ADF in order to review ideas that have been shared theretofore and create a draft Consensus Statement to ensure more streamlined, productive discussions in the Breakout Sessions. These groups and their conveners are:

Academia
By Development Policy and Management Forum (DPMF)

Issues Paper [ Download MS Word version]

HIV/AIDS
By the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance (CHGA)

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Discussion list

Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
By ECA's Development Information Services Division (DISD)

Programme: - ADF IV ICT Focus Group pre-event meeting Agenda   October 12, 14:00 - 18:00, Conference Room 5 - ADF IV ICT Focus Group Meeting, Agenda   October 13, 11:00 - 13:00, Conference Room 6 Documents: - Consensus Statement and the Way Forward - Issues Paper [ Download MS Word version] - Presentation by Makane Faye, Manager of ITCA   Access: Africa’s key to an inclusive Information Society - Report of the Third Committee on Development Information (CODI3) "Information and Governance" Discussion list For more, please click here to go to the AISI website.

Media
By ECA's Communication Team

Issues Paper [ Download MS Word version]
Discussion list

Parliamentarians
By the African Parliamentarian Union

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Discussion list

Private Sector
By the Africa Business Round Table

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Discussion list

Civil Society

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Traditional Governance
By University of Ghana

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Discussion list

Gender
By ECA's African Center for Gender and Development (ACGD)

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Youth
By UNICEF

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