The African Union Executive Council Retreat on Agenda 2063 is currently underway in Kigali, Rwanda from 1-3 October 2023. The Three-day Retreat organised by the African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with the Government of Rwanda brings together Ministers of AU Executive Council, ministers in charge of Finance and Planning, members of the AU Permanent Representatives’ Committee (PRC); AU Specialized Offices, African Union Organs; and the Regional Economic Communities (RECs).

Held under the theme “Accelerating the implementation of Agenda 2063”, the Ministerial Retreat is expected to take stock and deliver on the Second Ten Year Implementation Plan (STYIP) guided by the findings, lesson learnt and Evaluation of the First Ten Year Implementation Plan (FTYIP) 2024-2033.

Addressing the Ministerial opening, Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa, Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission outlined the seven Moonshots (ambitions) in the Second Ten Year Implementation Plan (STYIP), which are aligned to each of the seven Aspirations of Agenda 2063, such as:

• Every Nation to reach the middle-income category;
• To achieve an Africa that is more integrated and connected;
• To ensure that public institutions are more responsive to citizen’s needs;
• To commit and making it a reality that Africa is resolving conflicts amicably;
• To ensure African values are explicit and promoted;
• To witness African citizen more empowered and more productive;
• andto see Africa remains a strong and an influential global player. 

“These ambitions will require courage and conviction to make them a reality. I have no doubt that through our collective strategic contributions to the formulation of the STYIP, we will all be inspired to take action towards the Africa we Want”, Dr. Nsanzabaganwa underscored.

The Deputy Chairperson further expressed her gratitude to all stakeholders for the efforts exerted in African Union’s admission to the G20 that ensures Africa’s vision to have an equal voice in a global decision making power. “Let us ensure that none of our African Citizens are left behind in our development endeavours at all local government, national or continental level”, she added. Read the full statement here.

Hon. Vincent BIRUTA, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Rwanda, commended the progress registered in the first decade of Agenda 2063 while outlining the gaps. “The AU Agenda 2063, serving as Africa’s blueprint for socio- economic development, has demonstrated commendable progress in its first 10 years of implementation. Substantive advancements have been made to improve road network connectivity, Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), electrification, access to ICT, gender equality, and the establishment of the AfCFTA, to name a few”. The minister underlined some of the challenges the continent is facing in areas such as poverty reduction, job creation, free movement of people, and in ensuring a secure and peaceful Africa. “These issues will require our full attention in the Second Ten Year Implementation Plan”, he noted.

“We therefore look forward to discussing at length on how we can better domesticate, finance, coordinate and build the capacities of 3/4 actors in the delivery of the Agenda. Given the current challenges, it is crucial that we double our efforts during the Second decade of Agenda 2063”, Minister Biruta stressed. The full statement is available HERE.

H.E. Dhoihir Dhoulkamal, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Comoros and Chairperson of the Executive Council underscored that Agenda 2063 remains the master plan for African development programme, achieving its development objectives, and ultimately, transforming the Continent into an economic power. “We must, therefore, devote to this Retreat the necessary time and energy to examine the results relating to the implementation of Agenda 2063 in our respective States. It is on this condition that we will be able to provide more consistent work and develop a more pragmatic roadmap for our next ten years”, he added.

 H.E. Dhoihir Dhoulkamal also emphasized the crucial need to rely on the national resource mobilization for the Second Ten Year Implementation Plan (STYIP). “The fundamental error that we should avoid reproducing in the development of this Second Ten-Year Plan is to count on any hypothetical external support for the financing of our development objectives. The implementation of Agenda 2063 must, in fact, be based essentially on the mobilization of national resources, both human and financial”, he urged. Read the full statement here.

The African Union Agenda 2063, adopted in January 2015, embodies the aspirations of the African people and is operationalized through 5 ten-year implementation plans, with the first plan spanning from 2014 to 2023. The implementation of the second decade of Agenda 2063 will be focused on acceleration, building on the first decade that focused on convergence. Valuable lessons learned from the first decade of Agenda 2063 have been captured in the biennial progress reports and the evaluation of the First Ten-Year Implementation Plan, among other documents, which in turn informed the design of the successor ten-year plan. Key among the revelations was the perception widely held by African citizens that Agenda 2063 is as relevant to the Continent’s development discourses as it was in 2013.

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