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5years after the launch of Agenda 2063_ tagged: The Africa We Want, a brilliant set of initiatives geared at recreating Africa and developing the continent to emerge as a great one, not much of those initiatives have been achieved.
Hunger is still ravaging the continent, and its ageless partner_ poverty is still strongly ubiquitous across the motherland.
Although, there are series of challenges that have been identified as being responsible for the unpopularity of Agenda 2063.
Today, in a bid to help raise awareness around the agenda of the Africa We Want, I have decided among other things to spell out the 15 initiatives below for added awareness:
You can view Agenda 2063 as a set of initiatives proposed and currently under implementation by the African Union.
Historically, it was adopted on 31 January 2015 at the 24th Ordinary Assembly of the Heads of State and Governments of the African Union.
The call for such an agenda was first made by the 21st Ordinary Assembly on 26 May 2013, 50 years after the foundation of the OAU as a plan for the next 50 years.
The stated goals of the Agenda are economic development (including the eradication of poverty within one generation), political integration (in particular through the establishment of a federal or confederate United Africa), improvements in democracy and justice, establishment of security and peace on the entire African continent, strengthening of cultural identity through an “African renaissance” and pan-African ideals, gender equality, and political independence from foreign powers.
History has it that, the First Continental Report on the Implementation of Agenda 2063 was presented by President Alassane Quattara of Cote d’ Ivoire on 10 February 2020, marking the beginning of a biennial reporting cycle.
Agenda 2063 measures progress against a set of goals defined for the first Ten-Year Implementation Plan and was launched together with an interactive online dashboard showing progress in individual areas of the Agenda as well as geographical regions.
The Agenda includes 15 so-called flagship projects, which have been identified as being key to enabling and accelerating progress in all areas of development.
These are:
1. A high-speed train network connecting all African capitals and commercial centres.
2. The formulation of a strategy for transforming the African economy from a supplier of raw materials to one that actively uses its own resources.
3. The establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area.
4. The introduction of the African Union Passport, and removal of all visa requirements for its holders within Africa.
5. Ending all wars, civil conflicts, gender-based violence, and violent conflicts by 2020.
6. The construction of a third Inga Dam.
7. The establishment of the Single African Air-Transport Market.
8. The establishment of an Annual African Economic Forum.
9. The establishment of a set of financial institutions, envisaged as an African Investment Bank, a Pan-African Stock Exchange, an African Monetary Fund, and an African Central Bank.
10. A pan-African digital data network.
11. The development of a common African strategy for the use of outer-space technology.
12. The establishment of an African open, digital, distance-learning university.
13. Cooperation on cyber security.
14. The foundation of a Great African Museum, preserving African cultural heritage and promoting pan-Africanism.
15. The compilation of an Encyclopaedia Africana as an authoritative resource on the authentic history of Africa and African life.
You can help to spread awareness around it and participate to achieving same, after all we are here to see a better Africa.
Disclaimer: This is strictly the opinions of Richard F. Inoyo and does not represent TheLumineNews.
