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 President William Samoei Ruto (PhD), President of the Republic of Kenya and the African Union Champion on Institutional Reform. H.E. Ruto was appointed during the 37th Assembly of Heads of State and Government in February 2024 to champion the AU Institutional Reform process taking over from the H.E Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda who led the implementation of the reform process since 2016.
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Intended Nationally Determined Contribution: Implications, Prospects and Africa’s Readiness to Contribute to Solutions
Paris, France, 09 December 2015- The Africa Renewable Energy Initiative was launched at a Session during the High-Level Meeting on “Lima-Paris Action Agenda: Focus on Energy” on 07 December, 2015 at the COP21. The Africa Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI) aims to add an additional 10 GW and 300 GW of renewable energy capacity to the African energy sector by 2020 and 2030, respectively, and is endorsed and supported by the Governments of France, Germany, U.S., and Canada.
The inaugural meeting of the Political Heads of the African Governance Architecture (AGA) and Platform took place in Kigali, Rwanda from December 9-10, 2015. This meeting followed the Fourth High Level Dialogue on Democracy, Governance and Human Rights focusing on 'Women's Equal Participation and Leadership in Political Parties' that took place from December 7-8, 2015.
The political meeting was opened by the Commissioner for Political Affairs, Dr. Aisha Abdullahi and the Chair of the AU Permanent Representative Committee Amb. Albert Chimbindi.
The meeting:
Johannesburg, South Africa - 8 December 2015: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Her Excellency Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma officially welcomed the 6th Batch of the African Union Youth Volunteer Core (AU-YVC) training program.
On 27 November 2015, the Director of CIDO and Head of the AU ECOSOCC Secretariat, Dr. Jinmi Adisa met with a high-level delegation from the China NGO Network for International Exchanges (CNIE), led by Mr. Shi Guohi, Deputy Secretary-General of CNIE.
The meeting was held as a follow-up to the 4th China-Africa People’s Forum which took place on 26 August 2015 in Yiwu, China, under the formal auspices of CNIE and AU ECOSOCC.
The objective of the meeting was therefore to initiate planning for the implementation of the Forum’s outcomes over the next year 3-year period.
Paris, France, 06 December 2015- The special session of the African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN) was held on Sunday 06 December 2015 in Paris, France, in preparation for the high level segment of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 11th Session of the Conference of the Parties (CMP11). The day-long AMCEN meeting was aimed at deliberating and reaching to common consensus of key and strategic priority issues for Africa in the negotiations for the 2015 new climate change agreement.
