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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MEDIA ADVISORY
EU-African High-Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation.
Theme: “Ensuring Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture through Science, Technology and Innovation.”
INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA
When: From 4th - 6th April, 2016.
Time: From 9:30 AM
Where: AUC’s New Conference Complex, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Press Conference by H.E. Anthony Mothae Maruping Commissioner for Economic Affairs African Union Commission
The APRM is pulling all stops into realizing its efforts of reinvigorating life into this critical Continental Governance Mechanism. An Experts Group Meeting (EGM) which sought to discuss the APRM Turnaround Strategies and Methodologies was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 29 to 30 March.
“The Experts Group Meeting is an important and unique platform for the APRM to bounce off our new vision, ideas and the turn-around strategy, said APRM CEO Professor Eddy Maloka. The strategy in itself is three-pronged Reinvigoration, Restoration and Renewal.”
JOINT MEDIA ADVISORY
Advocacy and Communication Cluster (ACC) meeting at the margin of the 17th Session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM) for Africa
INVITATION TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA
WHEN: Friday, 1ST April 2016
TIME: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
WHERE: Conference Center of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 30 March 2016: Four new Ambassadors to the Federal Republic of Ethiopia and Permanent Representatives to the African Union have presented their letters of Credence to the African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson, H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma. The new Permanent Representatives included three AU Member States (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Mauritania) and one non-AU Member State; Chile. They submitted their letters to Dr. Dlamini Zuma on Wednesday, 30 March 2016, at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Description: Description: C:\Users\SuleH\Desktop\IMG_0031.JPGAddis Ababa, Ethiopia 30 March 2016: The Department of Human Resources, Sciences and Technology (HRST) today 30th March 2016 convened a review of the decade plan of action and youth mainstreaming in the continent. This is with an aim of tracking the progress so far of the implementation of Decade Plan of Action (DPoA) and chart the course for the remaining decade onwards. The DPoA was developed so as to ensure the implementation of the African Youth Charter.
Description: Description: C:\Users\SuleH\Desktop\IMG_0031.JPGAddis Ababa, Ethiopia 30 March 2016: The Department of Human Resources, Sciences and Technology (HRST) today 30th March 2016 convened a review of the decade plan of action and youth mainstreaming in the continent. This is with an aim of tracking the progress so far of the implementation of Decade Plan of Action (DPoA) and chart the course for the remaining decade onwards. The DPoA was developed so as to ensure the implementation of the African Youth Charter.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 29 March 2016: The Chief Executive Officer of the APRM Secretariat, Prof. Eddie Maloka, has briefed the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma on the ongoing revitalization of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).
The APRM CEO was paying his first courtesy visit to the AU Commission two months into his new assignment, on the margins of an Experts Group meeting under the theme: “Revitalization of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM): Strategizing, Planning, and Developing Improved Review Methodologies.”
Addis Ababa, 31 March 2016 - The inaugural African Development Week opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday March 31, with various speakers urging participants to engage in constructive debates that will promote Africa`s structural transformation through green industrialization.
Addis Ababa, 29 March 2016 – The Department of Human Resources, Science and Technology and Social Affairs hosted a partners meeting with key stakeholders in youth development to reflect on the African Youth Agenda and prepare for the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the African Youth Charter as well as for the second session of the Specialised Technical Committee on Youth Culture and Sports(STC-YCS).
