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.
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.
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High-level Event on Health Financing and Sustaining Actions to End AIDS and Related Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases (Working Lunch) Theme: “End HIV/AIDS in Africa by 2030”
At the Gender Pre-Summit Presidential High Level Advocacy Event, Heads of State and Government and key institutions will advocate for, and coordinate innovative, actions to accelerate the implementation and impactful delivery of gender equality and women’s empowerment commitments.
The Gender Pre-Summit will focus on the commemoration of 20 Years since the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol)
The opening session of the High Level event that delves into a study on key actions to drive inclusive growth and sustainable development in Africa. The study will critically examine Africa’s development history – and that of other regions - and identify key actions to place African countries on a path of sustained GDP growth rates of 7 – 10% on average over the period 2022 – 2052.
The High Level event on Africa’s Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook will provide up-to-date evidence based assessment of the continent’s recent macroeconomic performance and short- to- medium term outlook, amid dynamic global economic developments.
The opening session of the High-Level Panel on the role of the African Private Sector in Investment and Industrialization in the realization of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area. The session will also delve into avenues to increase Intra-Africa Trade and the role of the Public- Private Partnership in the implementation of AfCFTA.
The opening session of the High-Level Dialogue on Shaping Africa’s new investment landscape for sustainable development and consultations on the 3rd Edition of the Africa’s Development Dynamics 2023 report will delve on how the African continent can mobilise more sustainable investments to fuel its economic transformation and achieve Agenda 2063.
36th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly Side-event: The Climate Migration Nexus: How to Respond to Environmental Degradation, Protect People and Uphold the Potential of Migration
On 10 February 2023, the African Union Commission’s Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment (DARBE), and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), co-convened the Horn of Africa Ministerial Roundtable on food security in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Taking Advantage of the Acceleration of AfCFTA to Boost Girls and Women’s Education in Africa
