Today, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Vincent Biruta inaugurated the African Union 3-day Retreat of the Executive Council, convening in Kigali to discuss the second decade of Agenda 2063 under the theme “Accelerating the Implementation of Agenda 2063”.
The retreat of the Executive Council aimed to achieve: Engage and seek strategic guidance from the Executive Council’s on the outcomes of the Special Project on Agenda 2063, political guidance and commitment on categorization of the Flagship projects and resource mobilization and seek political commitment to jointly implement and report on the African Union Agenda 2063 and United Nations Agenda 2030.
The ministerial retreat will discuss the second ten-year plan of Agenda 2063 spans 2024 to 2033. Agenda 2063 was adopted by the 24th Session of the AU Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa in January 2015. The Agenda embodies the aspirations of the African people, framed in a collective ambition thus: “The Africa We Want in 2063”. The Agenda is operationalized through 5 ten-year implementation plans, with the first plan straddling 2014 to 2023. The second decade of Agenda 2063 implementation is one of acceleration, building on the first that focused on convergence. (End)