Friends: Please contact Samuel Adebayo of DPI for more info, as needed (adebayo@... </ym/Compose?To=adebayo@...&YY=69641&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b> ), and subscribe to the Yahoogroups forum mentioned below for this consultation. Thanks! **************************************************************** The annual African Development Forum (ADF) serves as a critical meeting-point for African leaders to discuss and reflect on the challenges faced by Africa and progress made with addressing them in order to strengthen on-going initiatives and workout strategies for future interventions. The agenda for each ADF is usually cross-cutting and thematic issues focused on during sessions are based on the overall conference theme and regional priorities. The theme of this year’s ADF is "Youth Leadership in the 21st Century" and it will be held in Addis Ababa between October 30th to November 4th 2005. This is a unique opportunity to reflect on the diverse initiatives of African youth across various issues, in order to seek the best ways to forge a partnership of young leaders working on various issues, so as to draw from their skills, exposure, expertise and experience to support the efforts of their governments towards national development. Moreso, as the ADF comes just a few weeks after the tenth year review of the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY), it will be a great meeting for young leaders in Africa to work out practical ways to integrate and further the WPAY priorities at the national level. This year’s ADF is also an opportunity to launch a regional youth Partnership for Development and a platform to further the objectives of NEPAD, the MDGs and National Poverty Reduction Strategies. We invite you to join an active five week long dialogue from July 11 to August 19 between young leaders from across Africa, which will focus on ICT4D, Health (including HIV/AIDS/SRH), Environmental Sustainability, Education for All, and Youth Employment/Entrepreneurship. Discussions each week will focus on the situation of issues relating to each thematic area and as it affects young people in African countries, and weekly summaries will be sent to the group in English and French. We will as well explore the possibility of translating them into Kiswahilli. We hope that this discussion will help us to assess the situation of youth in the region and evolve strategic recommendations which can be shared with the young people and leaders that will be participating at the ADF. To join the online discussion, please subscribe by sending blank email to: developmentpartnership-subscribe@yahoogroups.com </ym/Compose?To=developmentpartnership-subscribe@yahoogroups.com&YY=69641&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b> or at www.yahoogroups.com/groups/developmentpartnership. Please contact me adebayo@... </ym/Compose?To=adebayo@...&YY=69641&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b> , if you have any concerns or queries. I look forward to seeing you there. ADEBAYO Samuel Media and Strategy Director Development Partnership International www.developmentpartnership.org

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