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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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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.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMISSIONER’S PRESS CONFERENCE ON ENERGY JANUARY 2017
The African Union Commission is strongly committed to achieving Africa's vision of regional integration, economic development and transformation, social and human development as well as being a peaceful and secure continent for all Africans. The Department of Infrastructure and Energy in particular strongly focuses on ensuring the development of robust, resilient and long-lasting economic transformation of the continent through the promotion of infrastructure and energy development on the continent, at the continental, regional, national and local levels. For Africa the biggest priorities in the infrastructure sector is the development of the energy, transport and ICT sectors, which we believe will facilitate trade, economic cooperation and regional integration amongst our Member States. In the energy sector, we also have a special focus on rural electrification, which we believe will enhance and accelerate rural development and improve the livelihoods of those who need energy the most in these areas, especially women.
The AUC together with its continental, regional and international partners, namely, the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and the European Union (EU), amongst others, are committed to the development of infrastructure on the continent, specifically in the Energy, Transport and ICT sectors. The Agenda 2063 of the African Union clearly set out roadmaps and strategies for infrastructure development in the coming decades.
The AUC’s work on energy and infrastructure concentrates solely on leveraging financial and technical support for Member States to improve energy access as well as ensuring energy security through the development of renewable and conventional energy systems as well as facilitating regional and continental clean power generation and transmission projects; and, developing guidelines and polices to accelerate energy transitions.
Some of the activities implemented in 2016 were around the following programs and initiatives:
Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.
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