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Introduction

Introduction

Whilst anyone can produce a valid assessment of anyone else, the exercise carries extra weight to the extent that the subject of the assessment agrees with the criteria being used. Health is not NEPAD’s primary focus. Development is. Nonetheless, NEPAD does contain health commitments that are explicitly recognized. NEPAD also includes non-health factors that it explicitly acknowledges as having an impact on health.

These acknowledgements are important because they mean that, given the reality of everything being interconnected with everything else, NEPAD is not being assessed in terms of criteria that have been externally imposed on it.

The structure of this Report Card mirrors NEPAD’S own position. This is to say, the Report Card begins with NEPAD’s own explicitly acknowledged direct health commitments, which, accordingly, carry the greatest weight. The Report Card follows these commitments with those that NEPAD recognizes as being health-related, even though not in themselves self-evidently health factors. The Report Card ends with NEPAD commitments that are not explicitly recognized as being health related, but which plainly have a right to be included as part of an evaluation of NEPAD’s health commitments. These last commitments are not unimportant, even though they might be said to carry less weight than those openly acknowledged by NEPAD as being health-related.

NEPAD’s Health Commitments

In the following table, all paragraph references are to the NEPAD document, unless otherwise stated.
DRB = Debt Relief and Beyond

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