NEPAD is a merger of the Millennium Partnership for Africa¿s Recovery
Programme (MAP) and the Omega Plan.
· The merger was finalised on 3 July 2001.
· Out of the merger, the New Africa Initiative (NAI) was born.
· NAI was then approved by OAU Summit Heads of State and Government on
11 July 2001.
· Its policy framework was finalised by HSIC on 23 October 2001, forming the
NEPAD.