TICAD IV
TICAD IV, officially known as the 4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development, will take place on 20-28 May in Yokohama. TICAD will serve as a critical policy forum whose policy recommendations will feed into the Hokkaido – Toyako G8 summit.
TICAD was launched in 1993 as an initiative for Africa through the joint effort of the Government of Japan, the United Nations (at that time through its Office of the Coordinator for Africa and the Least Developed Countries) and the Global Coalition for Africa. The World Bank joined the TICAD co-organisers in 2000.
TICAD's co-organisers: Japan Office of Development Assistance, Global Coalition for Africa, UNDP, Office of the Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Africa and The World Bank. They work together to keep Africa's development agenda in the forefront of the world's attention by mustering support for Africa, particularly in times when attention may have been diverted elsewhere. They have also worked to form international consensus on the priorities in African development based on the principle of African ownership of Africa's development.
Click here to read the joint civil society statement to TICAD co-organisers.
TICAD IV Themes
- the promotion of trade and investment
- improvement of infrastructure
- human security
- environmental issues
- the future modality of ODA (Japan MOFA, translation May 29, 2007. One Japanese NGO translation is: a) Economic Growth, b) MDGs, c) Peace Consolidation, d) Environment).
TICAD Calendar leading to the G8
- 1st TICAD IV Regional Preparatory meeting (East- South Africa) Lusaka, Zambia, 30-31st October, 2007
- 2nd TICAD IV Regional Preparatory meeting (North- Central- West Africa)Tunis, Tunisia, 21-22 November, 2007
- TICAD IV Ministerial Conference Gabon, early 2008
- TICAD IV – G8, 28 to 30 May , 2008, Yokohama
Japanese TICAD NGO’s coordinators
TCSF (TICAD Civil Society Forum)
TCSF’s African Campaign 2008