... implications of it from various sectors of society. This critique, incorporating a gender perspective, aims to discuss various points of contention concerning NEPAD. Predominantly NEPAD is a gender blind document. One of the major criticisms levied against the conception and production of NEPAD is that civil society was not consulted or included. Patrick Bond (2002) in The NEPAD, An Annotated Critique comments, "NEPAD contains no concrete actions to be taken by the African peoples, no offer of organizational resources, and no-civil society implementation plan. The document itself was available to African civil society only through internet websites". This last point made by Bond has implications for the gender composition of people that can access the NEPAD document. One requirement of the Internet is a telephone link (primarily through phone lines, but it is possible via cellular phones and infra-red links). Within the NEPAD document itself, statistics are quoted where there ...

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