Industrializing the SADC Region: Strides, Drawbacks and Impact
The private sector has been challenged to move beyond policy and advocacy towards increased levels of entrepreneurship.
Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Agenda 2063 is the blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future. It is the strategic framework for delivering on Africa’s goal for inclusive and sustainable development and is a concrete manifestation of the pan-African drive for unity, self-determination, freedom, progress and collective prosperity pursued under Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance.
H.E. Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, was appointed to lead the AU institutional reforms process. He appointed a pan-African committee of experts to review and submit proposals for a system of governance for the AU that would ensure the organisation was better placed to address the challenges facing the continent with the aim of implementing programmes that have the highest impact on Africa’s growth and development so as to deliver on the vision of Agenda 2063.
The AU offers exciting opportunities to get involved in determining continental policies and implementing development programmes that impact the lives of African citizens everywhere. Find out more by visiting the links on right.
The private sector has been challenged to move beyond policy and advocacy towards increased levels of entrepreneurship.
24 years old Kingsley Job Obasi (Nigerian), is the winner of the African Union Youth Essay Contest on “Industrialization and Innovation in Africa”. His essay, titled "Manufacturing: The Key to Economic Prosperity and Sustainable Development in Africa," articulates how manufacturing can unlock the economic prosperity of the African continent to create a sustainable future for its people.
On behalf of the African Union Commission, Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat welcomes the commemoration of the Second Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD) Awareness Week this month of November 2022.
Since the adoption of the AU PCRD Policy in 2006, significant achievements, both normative and operational, have been registered. The Commission continues to support institutional capacities of Member States to consolidate peace and prevent the relapse into conflict, through inclusive and nationally owned processes.
The Head of the African Union Observation Mission to Equatorial Guinea’s Elections, Mr. José Mario Vaz, former President of the Republic of Guinea Bissau started
November 10, Tunisia, The African Union Commission (AUC), AUDA-NEPAD through the Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA) and in partnership with the Tunisian government held the TVET conference under the theme “Driving transformation in TVET practice” from 9-11 November in Tunis, Tunisia.
The African Union Commission’s Women, Gender and Youth Directorate through the Division in charge of Youth Development and Engagement convened the 3rd Pan African Youth Forum at the AUC Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 1st – 3rd November.
“Implementation of Climate Actions and Africa’s Responses for a Just and Sustainable Transition” was the theme for the Africa Day held on the margins of the ongoing Twenty-Seventh Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
Despite numerous efforts by member states and stakeholders to eradicate all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls in Africa, the scourge still persists, mostly linked to harmful socio-cultural norms and practices
H. E José Mario Vaz, former President of the Republic of Guinea Bissau arrived in Malabo, Republic of Equatorial Guinea to lead the African Union Election Observation Mission (AUEOM).
In 2014, the African Union Commission launched the Campaign to End Child Marriage in Africa. This was to accelerate the implementation of Ending Child Marriage (ECM) programmes and interventions among member states.