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What:  TICAD VI

Who:  Japan and other TICAD Co-organizers (Africa Union Commission, United

            Nations, Office of the Special Advisor on Africa, United Nations Development

            Programme and World Bank)      

When:  Senior Officials Meeting - 23-24 August 2016

             Ministerial - 26 August 2016

             Summit -    27-28 2016

Where: Nairobi, Kenya International Conference Center (KICC)     

Objective:

TICAD VI contributes to the facilitation and promotion of high-level policy dialogue between African leaders and Africa’s development partners on issues pertaining to economic growth, trade and investment, sustainable development, human security, peace and stability and government. Being a multilateral partnership, TICAD process also actively promotes South-South and triangular cooperation by providing an opportunity for high-level policy dialogue, TICAD has become a major global platform through which Asian and African nations, as well as international stakeholders, can collaborate to promote Africa’s development.

Furthermore, taking into consideration of the growing role that the private sector plays in promoting socioeconomic development TICAD-VI plans to feature the private sector from Africa and Japan. TICAD-VI will also take place at an opportune moment, as the year 2016 is the first year of the implementations of the global and regional development agendas, namely the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063 and its First Ten-Year Implementation Plan. Being fully in line with these development agendas, TICAD-VI plan to discuss some thematic issues that Africa has been facing since the last TICAD-V in Yokohama, Japan in 2013, which include:

• structural economic transformation through diversification and industrialization,

• health systems for quality of life, and
• social stability for shared prosperity, among other things.

Participants:

Approximately 6000 delegates including  the participation of 55 African countries, Japan and other TICAD Co-organizers (Africa Union Commission, United Nations Office of the Special Advisor on Africa, United Nations Development Programme and World Bank),  invited countries (US, Chine, India, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Thailand)…..),  International Organizations and Civil Society Organization.

Background:

In May 2014, the First Follow up Ministerial Meeting of the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on Africa’s Development (TICAD V) was held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, The meeting endorsed the implementation matrix of the Yokohama Action Plan 2013-2017. The Matrix contains 617 concrete development initiatives of African institutions and development partners, composed of 57 countries/organizations that plan to implement these initiatives by the end of 2017.

The decision to host the TICAD VI Summit in Africa was reached during the TICAD V Summit held in 2013 where it was also agreed that the venue of subsequent TICAD Summits be alternated between Japan and Africa. 

Holding TICAD-VI in Africa clearly demonstrates growing African ownership in the TICAD process and has been attracting much attention from African states and all TICAD partners, such as the international organizations, including the United Nations System and regional organizations, the African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and the New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD Agency), as well as civil society and the private sector. The highest-level representations from African states and TICAD partners are expected at TICAD-VI.

The Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-VI) will be held from 27 to 28 August 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Journalists are invited to cover the Meetings.