ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the available evidence on compliance with overall and health-related G7/8 summit commitments and whether compliance improves when G8 leaders embed particular compliance catalysts' within the commitment itself. It examines the G8's overall compliance from 1996 to 2004 to see if compliance is improved when commitments contain one or more of eight compliance catalysts: priority placement, targets, timetables, specified agents, money mobilised, remit mandates, other institutions instructed, and G8 institutions instructed. At the 2002 Kananaskis Summit, through the launch of G8 Africa Action Plan, the G8 produced the greatest attention and highest number of collective commitments to Africa in summit history. Within the framework of the G8 Africa Action Plan and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the G8 vowed to increase Africa's access to the fund as well as its participation in it. African health-related issues penetrated the areas of education and information technology as action plan highlighted the impact of HIV/AIDS on Africa's educational systems.
