Africa: The G8 and Africa

"The G8 registers...poor levels of performance on a broad range of issue areas that demand a much different form of engagement from the institution. Namely, these are commitments that require a large degree of long-term policy-coordination and collective action of the part of the G8 states. As a loosely affiliated organization that does not host a secretariat, the G8 is not well suited to these tasks. This partly explains why large-scale G8 strategies on water and famine and food security, and even the development of the African Peace Keeping Force have attracted little attention from G8 member states, let alone funds." This is according to a G8 Research Group support that tracks the history of the G8's engagement with Africa.