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Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.
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.
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Background information of the High Level Dialogue.
Both Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, calls for legal identity for all, including birth registration. The realization of both Agenda requires that every vital event is registered and information related to the events are collected, compiled, produced and disseminated in a regular and continuous manner to guide policy and planning, to inform decisions, enable all stakeholders to track progress and make the necessary adjustments to ensure transparency and mutual accountability. Several legal instruments and protocols of the AU call for the promotion and strengthening of birth registration, notably the African Charter on Human Rights; the Convention on the Rights of Children and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.
Article 6 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child contains provisions relating to naming, acquisition of nationality, and birth registration. The African Union Assembly in July 2016 declared 2017-2026 as the decade for repositioning civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) in Africa within continental, regional and national development agendas and urges governments to respond with appropriate action. Ensuring universal birth registration is one of the areas that required focused action during this decade.
Through the Africa Program on Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (APAI-CRVS), the AU is also bringing its support to the United Nations Legal Identity Agenda 2020-2030. An initiative backed by the UN Secretary General to support countries building holistic, sustainable, civil registration, vital statistics and identity management systems.
Birth registration in Africa had remained stagnant for a long time, leaving millions of children deprived of their basic right to legal identity. Thanks to commitments taken by Governments at the past five Conference of African Ministers responsible for Civil Registration[1] there have been encouraging signs of progress in birth registration due to the implementation of many innovations and good practices. With only 52 per cent of children under 5 now registered, the continent is not yet on track to meet the SDG goal of every child having a legal identity, including birth registration, by 2030.
In West and Central Africa, over the past three years, the regional average of children under 5 registered at birth increased from 45 per cent to 53 per cent equalling up to 8.6 million more children registered. In Eastern and Southern Africa, the average percentage of under 5 children registered is currently 40 per cent. Some countries on
the continent like Algeria and Tunisia have reached 100 per cent while others like Ethiopia and Somalia are as low as 3 per cent.
Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.