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 retreat focused on pathways to advance women’s leadership through intergenerational dialogue and empowerment of young women leaders.
Within the framework of PATTEC initiative, the 10th PATTEC training course on planning and execution of PATTEC Projects was held in Nairobi at the African Union Inter African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), 25 – 29 March 2019. The training course was organised in English and fourteen trainees from Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Zimbabwe participated in the course.
In line with the decision of the African Union Ministers of Communication and Information Communication Technologies (STCCICT) of 2017, which resolved to, among others, recognize the contributions of journalists towards the achievement of Agenda 2063, five African women journalists have been awarded grants to enable them to produce detailed stories in key sectors of Africa’s development under Agenda 2063. The grants valued at US$10,000 in total were supported by the African Union, the GIZ and the International Organisation for Migration, IOM.
The African Union in partnership with GIZ and IOM will award media personalities
with the best pitch stories to change the narrative of the continent.
The winner will recived $2000 facilitate the development of these stories.
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Welcome Remarks
Speakers:
Leslie Richer and Victoria Maloka
Panellists: Stephanie Busari; Jamila Mohammed; Harry Hare; Josephine Karungi; Ferial Haffajee; Teressa Ndanga
Welcome Remarks
• Dr. Yemisi Akinbobola – Co-Founder, African Women in Media
• Professor Margaret Kobia PhD, MGH- Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Public Service, Youth & Gender Affairs
Keynote
Dr Dorothy Njoroge- Chairperson, Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK)
WHEN: 25th – 27th July, 2019
WHERE: University of Nairobi, Kenya
WHO: The African Union - Directorate of Information and Communication (DIC) in partnership with Africa women in Media
Conference Objectives
The African Union Commission in collaboration with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), held a Validation Workshop for the AU Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Framework to finalise it for submission for approval by the Ministerial Specialised Technical Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment, scheduled to hold in October 2019.
