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Task Force Group:

Drawing on lessons learned from conferences organized in the same respect with exciting themes and objectives; and realizing the critical need for a holistic, well coordinated and proactive civil society engagement with policy makers in resolving the Africa Development Crisis and the Persistent Poverty, the participants of the 2006 International Conference on the State of Affairs of Africa (ICSAA) left the conference with high expectations to translate the outcomes of the 2006 ICSAA into a concrete global agenda to address Africa’s crippling development challenges. In order to achieve the goals and objectives of the 2006 ICSAA, a Task Force Group (TFG) for African development was established at the end of the conference on Saturday October 28, 2006. The members of the TFG are committed to initiating actions with all the stakeholders and concerned parties to tackle the root causes of what appears to be an unending development crisis and poverty in Africa.

Purpose of the State of Affairs of Africa Task Force Group
The TFG implements the advocacy activities of the IIJD, which has the responsibility to uphold the recommendations of the International Conference on the State of Affairs of Africa, and build an international constituency of citizens dedicated to African political, economic, and social reform.
 
Structure of the Task Force Group

The TFG is comprised of a Coordinating Committee, six Resolution Groups, five Regional Representatives, National Representatives, and two to three Representatives-at-Large.

Members of the Coordinating team are the initial contributors to the 2006 ICSAA (speakers, justice and development experts, participants to the 2006 ICSAA), other members are from organizations or groups, or are individual that endorse the recommendations of the 2006 ICSAA and are committed to contributing to the efforts of the TFG.

The 2006 Conference Findings, Resolutions and Recommendations as well as the Reports will be shared with the governments of African States, the African Union, the European Union, the United States, Canada, France, and Great Britain, as well as Development agencies, Africans in the Diaspora, Intergovernmental organizations, International Financial Institutions, and regional bodies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific regions.

The TFG approach is inclusive and constructive. At the regional and national levels, efforts should be made to bring together the efforts of governmental and non-governmental forces. Effective engagement mechanisms should be worked out through influential civil society organizations so that they are positioned as vehicles of engagement with the Task Team at various levels. National and regional plans will be forwarded to the Coordinating Team and will be strengthened through inputs from task team members to ensure that plans are result-based and achievable.

Periodic action review meetings, symposiums, workshops, etc… will be organized for feedback sharing and strategic planning on a regional and rotational basis.

Advocacy and campaign

While advocacy and campaign activities are ongoing at the international level, concrete efforts are made to initiate institutions reforms in Africa in order to establish transparency and accountability at all levels of the administration; most importantly, advocates for a clear separation of power between the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial branches of power. The overall goal here being to consolidate democratic governance, strengthen the independence of the judicial system, establish independent electoral bodies in every African country; to reinforce regional trade, investment and cooperation amongst African countries as a means of breaking the artificial trade barriers represented by national boundaries; and encourage citizen participation with special consideration to women in order to foster and promote gender equality.

Significant results will be achieved through regional symposiums, workshops and conferences to increase civil society actors' understanding about the deepening development crises in their regions and Africa at large and reinforce their capacity.

Regional and national representatives of the TFG develop strategies for engagement, advocacy and campaigns from time to time. The TFG establishes partnership with local NGOs and builds coalitions with existing organizations.
 
Media
At the core of these engagements, the strategic involvement of the media is quite indispensable. A comprehensive media plan with an information dissemination plan to involve key players and a defined follow up strategy at the international, regional and national levels is outlined and constantly updated.
 
   
 
 
 
   
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