To cement this initiative, a meeting of major development partners in Africa was held under the theme «Accelerating Transformation through the Implementation of Agenda 2063’s Second Ten-Year Implementation Plan (STYIP) alongside the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: The Role of the RC System in Africa.”
It was organised jointly by the African Union (AU), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), AUDA-NEPAD, and the UN Development Coordination Office (DCO) under the aegis of the Technical Working Group of The Second Ten-Year Implementation Plan (STYIP).
The Second Ten-Year Implementation Plan is a strategic framework for Africa’s development, outlining goals for 2024-2033 within Agenda 2063, which also aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda 2030.
To ensure synergy in implementing the two frameworks, a technical working group comprising the AU, ECA, UNDP, AUDA, and other UN agencies has been developing a common implementation framework to guide the execution of both agendas under the STYIP at the national levels through the national development plans of African member states.
The side event, therefore, aimed to enhance the collaboration among the UN, AUC, and TWG in the implementation of the Second Ten-Year Implementation Plan.
It also sought to strengthen commitments for both Agendas at the country level, define strategies for Second Ten-Year Implementation Plan domestication, ensure alignment with STYIP Moonshots and SDGs in National Development Plans (NDPs)
It also aimed to ensure the integration to facilitate more effective collaboration between the UN and AU. Consequently, this accounted for the presence at the meeting of all the UN Resident Coordinators, who are UN officials responsible for ensuring cooperation among agencies at the country level to support local development goals.
Addressing the opening ceremony of the event, Botho Kebabonye Bayendi, Director, Office of Strategic Planning and Delivery, AUC, indicated that the reality at the country level called for complementarity between the UN system and the African Union because both institutions aim for the same development indicators.
Said Adejumobi, Director of Strategic Planning, Oversight, and Results Division at UNECA, observed that the convergence rate between Agenda 2030 and Agenda 2063 is about 80 percent. This overlap required collaboration between both institutions to achieve their shared development goals effectively.
He announced that the UN system would leverage its presence in all countries to support the implementation of the Second Ten-Year Implementation Plan within the “Two Agendas, One Framework” concept.