On this Honorable Marcus Garvey Day on August, 17, 2012, the African Union (AU) has asked the World African Diaspora Union, its affiliate organizations and leaders across the Diaspora to support and promote the following African Union Decision and Outcome of the Global African Diaspora Declaration to hasten the reunification and empowerment of African people in the world. The South Africa Global African Diaspora (SAGAD) Summit Declaration is a roadmap for world African unity and is the result of a decade long work in a series of forums, meetings and summits with leaders of the AU, CARICOM and key African Diaspora organizations, across Africa and the Diaspora.
In January 2003, the AU during its transition from the Organization of the African Union (OAU) declared that it shall “invite and encourage the full participation of the African Diaspora as an important part of our continent, in the building of the African Union.” The African Union also clearly defined “the African Diaspora as consisting of peoples of African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union.” In 2005, in its first major meeting in the African Diaspora in Jamaica, under theme “Towards Unity and United Action by Africans and the African Diaspora in the Caribbean for a Better World”, it seriously engaged in formulating the strategic plan for the Diaspora reintegration, resulting in the May 2012 SAGAD Summit Declaration.
A key part of the AU SAGAD Declaration is for the African Diaspora to immediately adopt the five (5) following legacy projects as a way of giving practical meaning to further the AU and Diaspora relationaships. The implementation of SAGAD programs will also help to facilitate the African Union-African Diaspora integration and development. The Legacy Programs are: a) the production of a Skills Database of African Professionals in the Diaspora; b) the establishment of the African Diaspora Volunteers Corps; c) the African Diaspora Investment Fund; d) a programme on the Development Marketplace for the Diaspora, as a framework for facilitating innovation and entrepreneurship among Africans; and e) The African Remittances Institute.
Be assured that WADU will also continue pressing the AU to act on the Ambassador Dudley Thompson Resolution for a union government of Africa, representation, reparations, African education and economic partnerships. Now, in the Spirit and in honor of our great and beloved leader, the Honorable Marcus Garvey, let us as “fierce Africans” continue to work collectively and cooperatively for the promotion, preservation and protection of our people, everywhere.
For more information and to support the SAGAD Legacy programs, please contact WADU immediately at WADUPAM.ORG or 718-523-3312.
Sincerely African,
Dr. Leonard Jeffries, President of WADU
WADU High Council, Executive Council & State Chairs/Councils
Minister Akbar Muhammad, Executive Support, (NOI)
Baba Mukasa Dada, Executive Support (AAPRP/SNCC)
Baba Joe Beasley, Executive Support, (Rainbow Push Coalition/Civil Rights Leader)
Dr. Molefi K. Asante, Executive Support (Afrocentric International)
Dr. Julius Garvey, Executive Support (UNIA/ACL)
Dr. Georgina Falu, Executive Support (AUDITT), Puerto Rico
Dr. Verene Shepard, Executive Support, UWI, Jamaica
Baba Khafra Kambon, Executive Support, (CPAN), Trinidad & Tobago
Dr. N. L. Abena Jackson, WADU Advisor, Columbia, South America
World African Diaspora Union (WADU) 8/17/2012
Center for Culture 176-03 Jamaica Ave Jamaica, NY 11432-5503
Contact: Baba John Watusi Branch-718-523-3312 http://www.wadupam.org/
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia P. O. Box 3243 Telephone: +251-115-517-700 Fax: +251-115-517-844 Website: www. Africa-union.org Assembly/AU/Dec.443(XIX) Doc. Assembly/AU/17(XIX) Rev.1
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DECISION ON THE OUTCOME OF THE GLOBAL AFRICAN DIASPORA SUMMIT
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The Assembly,
1. TAKES NOTE of the Outcome and Declaration of the Global African Diaspora Summit;
2. COMMENDS the Commission and the Government of South Africa for the sterling work and active cooperation that led to the success of the Summit;
3. RECOGNIZES the importance of the contribution of Member States, leaders and people of the African Diaspora community worldwide and friends and partners of the AU in attaining the objectives of the AU Global African Diaspora’s Summit and its outcomes which are reflected in the Declaration, its Programme, Plan of Action and Implementation Mechanism;
4. DECIDES that Roadmap should continue to be recognized as a vehicle for the implementation process of Summit outcomes;
5. EMPHASIZE the requirement of adequate resourcing of the Diaspora Program to support processes of effective implementation;
6. ENDORSES the five flagship or Legacy Projects and REQUESTS the Commission to urgently organize appropriate Seminars and workshop of Member States of the Union in the fourth quarter of 2012 to consolidate their feasibility studies and present the outcome to the next Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly in January 2013 for consideration;
7. DECIDES on the need to establish and set criteria for increasing presence and participation of the Diaspora in AU programs and policies in a systematic and global manner through the African Union Commission rather than in a piecemeal and uncoordinated fashion through various structures and Organs of the AU;
8. REQUESTS the Commission to engage regional Diaspora groupings with a view to helping them to organise themselves into regional networks that will facilitate their representation as "observers" at AU Summit and eventually, in the future, as the Sixth Region of the continent that would contribute substantially to implementation of policies and programmes;
9. REQUESTS the Commission, the PRC and Council to strengthen the responsible Department, CIDO, in human resource and material terms to support the implementation of the Diaspora Plan of Action;
10. REQUESTS also that the Commission and the Republic of South Africa should continue their process of active cooperation to achieve this objective along with other regional champions that are willing and able to contribute towards the implementation of the outcomes of the Summit;
11. FURTHER REQUESTS that emphasis continue to be placed on putting in place effective organizational processes including the setting up and consolidation of regional networks.
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