{"id":1512,"date":"2016-03-30T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T09:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2016-10-26T16:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:01:56","slug":"agenda-2063-i-the-africa-we-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/2016\/03\/30\/agenda-2063-i-the-africa-we-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Agenda 2063 (I): \u201cThe Africa we want\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday I received my e-issue of the Africa Journal of Management<\/a><\/em>. I found all of the articles intriguing just by reading the titles. But one of them<\/a> interested me the most: \u201cThe African Union\u2019s Agenda 2063: Aspirations, challenges, and opportunities for management research<\/strong>,\u201d by Kaitlyn DeGhetto, Jacob R. Gray, and Moses N. Kiggundu. Maybe it grabbed my attention because in my last post<\/a> I touched upon Agenda 2063<\/a><\/strong> in relation to visa openness in African countries<\/strong>. If you want to have a good idea about the Agenda, this article is your reading.<\/p>\n

Overall, the Agenda aims at promoting Africa\u2019s \u201cpositive socioeconomic transformation.\u201d<\/strong> It couldn\u2019t be otherwise: one of the beauties of the continent is that they can\u2019t even think of an economic transformation that\u2019s decoupled from the social transformation. This includes governance changes, and an inclusive prosperity that elevates the socioeconomic status of all of the population<\/strong> \u2013 far from current reality, but that\u2019s why we have an agenda for the next 50 years.<\/p>\n

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The Africa we want<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another feature of the Agenda which I find very tuned to African cultures is its participatory nature<\/strong>. It has not been set up by a few \u201csuperior minds.\u201d Instead, it has involved consultations with multiple stakeholders<\/strong>. These include the youth, women, and the African diaspora, in addition to experts from official organs and academia among others.<\/p>\n

The Agenda is not fixed for the next 50 years \u2013 else, we would have a problem. For the time being, two documents are in place: the Agenda 2063 Framework document, and the first 10-year Implementation Plan<\/strong>. A document articulating how to evaluate progress, outcomes, and impact is on its way.<\/p>\n

Key flagship projects the Agenda promotes are:<\/p>\n

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  1. An integrated high speed train<\/strong> network<\/li>\n
  2. An African virtual and e-University<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Formulation of a commodities strategy<\/li>\n
  4. Establishment of an annual African forum<\/li>\n
  5. Establishment of the continental free trade area by 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. The African passport and free movement of people<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Implementation of the grand Inga Dam project<\/li>\n
  8. The pan-African e-network<\/li>\n
  9. Silencing the guns by 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. Africa outer space strategy<\/li>\n
  11. Establishment of a single African air transport market<\/strong><\/li>\n
  12. Establishment of the African financial institutions<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If these come to fruition, we\u2019ll see a new Africa in the decades to come<\/strong>. Bridging the gap from vision and ambition to reality requires effective implementation<\/strong>. This is the Agenda\u2019s acid test.<\/p>\n

    I plan to comment on issues related to the Agenda in coming posts: keep abreast!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On Monday I received my e-issue of the Africa Journal of Management. I found all of the articles intriguing just by reading the titles. But one of them interested me the most: \u201cThe African Union\u2019s Agenda 2063: Aspirations, challenges, and opportunities for management research,\u201d by Kaitlyn DeGhetto, Jacob R. Gray, and Moses N. Kiggundu. Maybe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93565,100295,93564,45494,100296,100294],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa-development","tag-african-passport","tag-agenda-63","tag-commodities","tag-silencing-guns","tag-visa-openess","megacategoria-mc-africa"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t