Civil Society Position Paper for
SOM of TICAD VI
Civic Commission for Africa★TICAD VI SOM （Djibouti、14-15 March）
 Senior Officials Meeting: High-Official Level Preparation Level
Meeting for TICAD VI, preparing for Ministerial Level Meeting.
 Discuss and decide main agendas of TICAD and develop firststage draft fro TICAD Outcome Documents. (This time, “NairobiDeclaration”)
 A crucial opportunity for civil society
ココ advocacy: the direction and major
agenda for the conference is almostfixed.
 Supplement declaration of TICAD VI onemerging issues after 2013 will follow
the Yokohama Declaration and Action
Plan of TICAD V.
 Major Agenda: Industrialization, health,social security and terrorism

Agenda 1: Industrialization
Civic Commission for Africa★Why “Industrialization”?

 African economy has suffered by the downturn of international
price of primary commodities.
 Lessons Learned: African economy has still depends on primarycommodities: the price of these commodities has been decided ininternational market and Africa has no pricing power.
 Without diversification and industrialization, Africa’s economy willcontinue unstable and dominated by external economic powers.
 “Industrialization” is the first priority for AU in these years.

Civil Society Recommendation
 Urge African governments to diversify and industrialize their economies,
develop value chains to overcome their dependency of primary commodities.
 Urge AU to put in place frameworks that ensure the prices of Africa’s raw
materials to gain more pricing power.
 Youth should be centered in Africa’s infrastructure development and technicaltransfer for Africa’s further industrialization.
 Enabling empowerment of women to strengthen their ownership andaccelerate economic activities.

Agenda 2: Health, Water andSanitation
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Why “Health, Water and Sanitation”
 Ebola outbreak in the 3 countries of Africa: because of thevulnerability of their health system and low capacity of health crisis
management
 Strengthening the capacity to manage health crisis and healthsystems strengthening.

Recommendation from Civil Society
Achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) should be top priority. A quality healthsystem for all that leaves no one behind is crucial.
Urge African governments to achieve 15% target (Invest 15% of national budget to health).
Full-funded Global Fund, GAVI the Vaccine Alliance, and other multilateral organizations forhealth is the primary responsibility of donor countries, aiming for the achievement ofhealth targets of SDGs.
Civil society’s role for UHC, including securing hard-to-reach communities’ access to healthservices, and independent evaluation of national health systems, is crucial to achieve
MDGs.
Women’s 100% access to sanitation, 100% access of safe water and hygiene in publichealth care facilities should be achieved ASAP.

Agenda 3: Social Security andTerrorism
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Why “Social Security and Terrorism”?
 Influence of “War-on-Terror” for Africa, the rise of religious
extremism: Terrorism by Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al-Shabab inSomalia and Kenya
 Radicalization of youth facing continuous unemployment andhopeless society for them

Recommendation of Civil Society African governments and international community/partners should develop global
human security network to work on this issue comprehensively.
 Urge African governments to de-radicalize youth by creating jobs and keep them active
for more hopeful society for them.
 A genuine dialogue is fundamental in solving human problems. A genuine dialogue withextremists to find the exact wants of extremist is necessary.
 Establish “National Commissions for Religious and Moral Education (NCRME) to checkreligious extremism and appropriate response against them.
 African governments should check porous borders and cut exportation of weapons andmoney flows for extremists.

SDGs, Agenda 2063, Regional
Economic Communities
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Why SDGs, Agenda 2063, Regional Economic Communities?
 SDGs, Agenda 2063 of African Union, Long-Term Plans of RECs
are crucial to realize Africa’s sustainability.
 Multiple sectors cooperation is crucial to achieve the 7
Aspirations of Agenda 2063.

Recommendation of Civil Society Call on TICAD Process to put measures that promote alignment andharmonization with other development initiatives to achieve Agenda 2063.
 Holistic approach for financing for development with both traditional andinnovative financial resources.
 Data accountability should facilitate evidenced advocacy and implementation.
 A human-centered development with transparency and accountability.
 Partnership of all sectors, including civil society, for development.