Endorsed by the 15th African Union (AU) Summit of July 2010, the Africa Platform for Development Effectiveness (APDEv) was officially launched by the AU on Sunday,27 March 2011 during the 4th AU/ECA Joint Annual Meetings of Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development scheduled for 24-29 March 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
APDEv is an African-led and owned physical and virtual multi-stakeholder platform and organizing mechanism for mobilizing African policy makers and practitioners towards achieving sustainable development results. The Platform focuses on 3 inter-related themes of Aid Effectiveness and South-South Cooperation with CapacityDevelopment as a core driver for development effectiveness (DE) fostering “knowledge and evidence-based innovation processes” which is one of the six cornerstonesof the AU-NEPAD CDSF.
