Draft Strategic Plan 2014 – 2017 for the African Union Commission
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
AFRICAN UNION UNION AFRICAINE UNIÃO AFRICANA Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA P. O. Box 3243 Telephone: 517 700 Fax: 5130 36 website: www. africa-union.org SP10000 ASSEMBLY OF THE UNION Twenty-First Ordinary Session 26 – 27 May 2013 Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA Assembly/AU/3(XXI) Original: English DRAFT STRATEGIC PLAN 2014 – 2017 FOR THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION The African Union Commission Final Draft Strategic Plan 2014-2017 May 2013 Assembly/AU/3(XXI) Page i Table of Contents Preface ..................................................................................................................................... a Executive Summary ................................................................................................................. 1 List of Acronyms ..................................................................................................................... 15 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION, BACKGROUND & CONTEXT .................................................... 21 1.1 BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT ....................................................................................... 21 1.2 STRATEGIC PLAN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS ...................................................................... 23 CHAPTER 2: ACHIEVEMENTS AND LESSONS LEARNT IN IMPLEMENTING THE 2009-2012 AUC STRATEGIC PLAN ..................................................................................................................... 25 2.1 ACHIEVEMENTS ........................................................................................................ 25 2.1.2 LESSONS LEARNT ........................................................................................................... 28 CHAPTER 3: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS/STRATEGIC PLAN CONTEXT: AFRICA ON THE MOVE . 33 3.1 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION ..................... 33 3.2 REGIONAL INTEGRATION, TRADE AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA ......... 39 3.3 PEACE, SECURITY, STABILITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE ................................................. 44 3.4 HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ..................... 47 3.5 AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES ............................................. 52 3.6 GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPOWERMENT ......................................... 56 3.7 OVERVIEW AND CONCLUSION OF SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS ............................................... 61 CHAPTER 4: THE 2014-2017 AUC STRATEGIC PLAN ............................................................... 67 4.1 STRATEGIC CONCERNS AND PRIORITIES ..................................................................... 67 4.2 THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN ................................................................... 68 4.3 OVERALL GOAL & VISION OF THE 2014-2017 STRATEGIC PLAN .......................................... 69 4.4 OVERVIEW OF THE 2014-2017 STRATEGIC PLAN ................................................... 73 4.5 STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS TO PURSUE .................................................................. 76 CHAPTER 5: Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation ................................................... 98 5.1 INTERNAL IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK/ARRANGEMENTS .......................................... 98 5.3 MONITORING, EVALUATION AND REPORTING .........................................................................101 5.4 IMPLEMENTAION PLAN ...........................................................................................105 5.5 ENABLING CONDITIONS ..............................................................................................106 CHAPTER 6: PROGRAMME BUDGET AND FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS.............................107 6. 1. PROGRAMME BUDGET .................................................................................................107 6. 2. FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS .......................................................................................108 CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION ....................................................................................................109 Assembly/AU/3(XXI) Page ii Annexures .............................................................................................................................110 ANNEX 1: STAKEHOLDERS ANALYSIS AND THEIR EXPECTATIONS .................................110 ANNEX 2: ANNUAL WORKPLAN FORMAT ...............................................................................112 ANNEX 3: QUARTER / SEMI ANNUAL MONITORING FORMAT ...................................................113 ANNEX 4: MONTHLYREPORTING FORMAT ..............................................................................114 ANNEX 5: AFRICA MONITORING EVALUATION AND REPORTING TOOL (AMERT)......................115 ANNEX 6: AUC THIRD STRATEGIC PLAN (2014-2017): RESULTS FRAMEWORK ..............117 Assembly/AU/3(XXI) Page iii List of Tables Table 1: Africa, Growth (per cent) by Region and Country Grouping Table 3: Defining Inclusive Growth Table 4: Challenges to the Inclusive Growth Agenda Table 5: The Six Phases Towards the Creation of The African Economic Union Table 6: Africa's Infrastructure Challenge Table 10: Relationship between the AUC Third Strategic Plan, the AU Vision and other Instruments Table 11: The AUC Third Strategic Plan At a Glance: Key Figures Table 12: An Overview of the AUC Thrid Strategic Plan ........................................................................................... 100 Table 13: Outputs and Actions/Strategies to Pursue under Outcome 1: Policies and programmes to enhance access to basic health, education and employable skills underpinned by investment in science, research and innovation in place .......................................................................................................................................................................... 105 Table 14: Outputs and Actions/Strategies to Pursue under the Outcome 2: Policies and institutions for increased agricultural production, expanded value addition and market access, for increased incomes and improved food and nutrition self-sufficiency , and sound environmental management in place. ................................................................ 82 Table 15: Outputs and Actions/Strategies to Pursue under Outcome 3:Inclusive economic development and industrialization driven by economic integration, continental infrastructure projects, and private sector-led intra-African Trade and Global Access and sustainable utilization of the continents' natural resources promoted .......................... 86 Table 16: Outputs and Actions/Strategies to Pursue under Outcome 4: Peace and stability, good governance, democracy and human rights as foundations for development and stable societies promoted, Security 115 Table 17: Outputs and Actions/Strategies to Pursue under Outcome 5: Strategies for resource mobilization, including alternative sources of funding, to enable Africa to finance its programmes and development in place ....................... 93 Table 18: Outputs and Actions/Strategies to Pursue under Outcome 6: A People-centered Union with the participation of all stakeholders in defining and implementing the African Agenda attained ...................................... 107 Table 19: Outputs and Actions/Strategies to Pursue under Outcome 7: Institutional capacities of the AUC strengthened, and relations with RECs and AU Organs and with strategic and other partners enhanced Table 20: Monitoring & Evaluation Plan of the Third Strategic Plan Table 21: Budget by Outcome of the Third Strategic plan List of Figures Figure 1: Africa - Potential Scenarios for the Near Future ........................................................................................... 63 Figure 2: Implementation / Internal Governance and Oversight .................................................................................. 97 Assembly/AU/3(XXI) Page a Preface I am pleased to present the African Union Commission Strategic Plan 2014-2017.The Plan constitutes the framework that outlines the overall priorities of the Commission for the four year period, and provides guidance for program formulation and prioritization. It provides space for AUC to play its facilitating role, especially, with respect to policy and strategy setting, coordination and catalyzing Africa‘s socio-economic and integration agenda, consensus building and advocacy, experience and information sharing. It seeks to establish the basis for creating the continental public goods and the enabling conditions necessary for peace, security, political stability and growth. The AU is in the process of developing a 50 year African Agenda and Union-wide Strategic Framework in order to provide greater coherence in the actions and initiatives of the African Union, its organs and those of key stakeholders and partners (RECs, NPCA, Member States, civil society and private sector, etc). The Union-wide plan, in addition to creating better synergies and collaboration, is expected to enhance impacts on the ground. The Commission‘s strategic plan will be adjusted to take account of the directions charted by the Union-wide plan once it is approved by the AU Policy Organs. This Strategic Plan comes at a seminal point in the history of the African Continent. The year 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization for African Unity (OAU) in 1963, while 2012 marked the first decade of the establishment of the African Union (AU) as the successor to the OAU, as well as the setting up of the