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.
Opening Remarks Thokozile Rudvidzo Director, Gender, Poverty and Social Policy Division (GPSPD) at the CONSULTATIVE MEETING
While the idea of human security has been spreading globally and locally, albeit unevenly, few studies have analytically examined and responded to contextual threats for people-centred, comprehensive, context-specific and prevention-oriented analysis and exploring basic security questions.
In recognition of their outstanding achievements and discoveries in science, technology and innovation, the African Union awarded six (6) top scientists the prestigious African Union Kwame Nkrumah Awards for Scientific Excellence (AUKNASE).
The Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), HE Mr Kwesi Quartey, received United Nations (UN) Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on Human Security, HE Amb Yukio Takasu, at the AUC today.
TOWARDS DEVELOPING AN AFRICAN HUMAN SECURITY
INDEX – ON PRACTICES, METHODS AND DESIGNS
Your Excellency Mr. Yukio Takasu, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on Human Security,
My Sister Dr. Thokozile Ruzvidzo, Director, Gender, Poverty and Social Policy Division of UNECA
Mr. Gerald Mitchell, Deputy Head of Office and Director of Political Affairs, UNOAU,
Mr. Markus Awatre, Director, African Union Cooperation Friedrich Ebert Stiftung,
Colleagues from the United Nations and AUC,
Experts on Human Security Index,
HE Albert R Chimbindi, Ambassador of the Republic of Zimbabwe to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union paid a courtesy call on the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission, HE Mr Kwesi Quartey to bid him farewell at the end of his tenure.
Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector signs MoU with the A-eTrade Group to advance Africa’s economic transformation under Agenda 2063
African Leather and Leather Products Institute and African Electronic Trade Group sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost trade and competitiveness of “Made in Africa Leather”
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, 28 FEBRUARY 2020. On 27 February 2020, the Minister of Health of Nigeria, Dr Osagie Ehanire, confirmed a case of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Lagos, Nigeria.
Today marks the celebration of the 5th edition of the African Day of School Feeding in compliance with Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.589 (XXVI), through which AU Heads of State and Government, established 1st March as the African Day of School Feeding.
