There was an "overall sense" from civil society that Nepad had gone for what was politically winnable in current terms, according to Neville Gabriel, a senior official within the Justice and Peace department of the Southern African Catholic Bishop's Conference, who was speaking at a Southern African Regional Poverty Network panel discussion on the decision by the UN General Assembly to make Nepad the framework for its relations with Africa. Gabriel said civil society would like to see a far more direct approach by Nepad to poverty reduction in Africa, noting that Nepad could only be seen to achieve its goals if African communities believed that it was delivering effectively at the community level. Other civil society concerns included debt cancellation and the extent of Africa's integration into the global economic order.