The Africa Governance Report Period Global Development Characteristics Africa’s Development Characteristics 2000 – 2015: Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) The 2000 Millennium Declaration sought to combine past efforts to address poverty and economic and social development in a holistic fashion. The MDGs launched in 2001, later complemented by the Monterey Consensus on Financing for Development that recognised that the 0.7 target for ODA set in 1970 had not been met, and called on developed countries that had not done so to redouble their efforts in that regard if the MDGs were to be achieved. The idea of ‘Development Decades’ has been abandoned indicating that development is a complex activity with results coming in small incremental and often unnoticed steps. The return of Development Planning, the MDGs and the AU Agenda 2063. To augment the poverty-reducing provisions in PRSPs, countries reinvigorated the notion of planning – specifically, MDG-based National Development Plans to respond to the new challenges advanced by the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs. Further, at the continental level, the Omega Plan and the Millennium Africa Recovery Programme (MAP) were combined to form the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) which provided a blueprint for Africa’s recovery using home-grown solutions. A peer review mechanism to respond to the challenges of governance in all areas was established as another home-grown solution to the challenges experienced over the past ‘lost decades. In 2013, during the celebrating the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Organisation of African Unity, the AU Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want was launched to plot Africa’s hopes and aspirations for the next 50 years. The primary goal of this “African Agenda” is to integrate the continent into the global economy based on “mutual responsibility” and “mutual accountability”. 2016–2030: Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Put sustainable development at the core – integrate social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability in all programmes; (iii) Transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth; (iv) Build peace and effective, open and accountable institutions for all; and (v) forge a new global partnership. Implementation is underway in tandem with Africa Union Agenda 2063 covering the fifty-year period from 2013 – 2063 Union urges its Member States to implement the two Agendas in tandem. At the continental level, Agenda 2063 is being implemented through five ten-year implementation plans, with the African Development Bank’s High Fives as the vehicle through which this is to be achieved. Page 93 of 96