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Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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.
Senegal offers to host the next African COP in 2016
Warsaw, Poland- 20 November 2013- The Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Senegal, H.E. Mr. Mor Ngom (in the middle), today 20 November 2013, addressed African Group of Negotiators (AGN) to ensure effective participation of the COPs at different levels. In addition, the minister informed the AGN Group that Senegal has offered to host the next African COP in 2016, which is the 22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 12th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP22/CMP12).
Worth noting, that Sudan has been elected as the In-coming Chair of the African Group of Negotiators at the UNFCCC COP and to commence his 2-year tenure from 1st January 2014 till 31st December 2016. Since 2012 Mr. Emmanuel Dlamini of Swaziland was leading the negotiations at the UNFCCC COP18 in Doha and COP19 in Warsaw, on behalf of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN).
Further information and media inquiries:
Mr. Molalet Tsedeke
Directorate of Information and Communication
AU Commission
molalett@africa-union.org; molalet24t@yahoo.com
Tel: +48 51 7665 081
Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.
Supply Chain Management Division Operations Support Services Directorate
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia