The Special Coordinator for Africa , in introducing the report , stated that UNCTAD had been providing substantial support to the New Partnership for Africa 's Development ( NEPAD ) secretariat through the provision of studies and analyses related to market access , diversification and capital flows . Since NEPAD would in all likelihood form the basis for the successor arrangement to the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s ( UN-NADAF ) , support by the international community would be concentrated in areas identified by the African countries . Inter-agency activities would also be geared to that purpose .