Draft ministerial statement

Abstract

African ministers of finance, monetary affairs, planning, economic development and integration, were gathered in Dakar for the tenth joint annual meetings of the African Union specialized technical committee on finance, monetary affairs, economic planning and integration. The African Ministers have convened to commit (i) to include in national development plans initiatives to support the implementation of the AU Roadmap on harnessing the demographic dividend through investments in youth in our national development plans alongside the four thematic pillars (employment and entrepreneurship; education and skills development; health and wellbeing; and rights, governance and youth empowerment), and (ii) to mobilize and allocate domestic resources and to promote partnerships in support of the aforementioned initiatives on harnessing the demographic dividend.