Medium-term programme framework (2022–2025)

Abstract

Africa faces a range of issues, from the spread of digital technologies and artificial intelligence, a new continent-wide free trade agreement, to burgeoning green and blue economies, that represent both challenges and potential opportunities to further the social and economic development of the continent. In this context, it is opportune to reflect on what is needed to accelerate progress to achieve the goals that the continent has set itself in both the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. This Medium-Term Programme Framework (MTPF) 2022 – 2025, is part of UNECA’s response to the challenge of delivering on the promise of the 2030 and 2063 Agendas. While the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and measures to deal with the human, societal, and economic costs will likely dominate the agenda over the course of the next few years, the MTPF looks at ways in which the continent can potentially ‘build forward together’, drawing on Africa’s resources, strengths and potential to help drive post-pandemic sustainable development in a transformative way. The MTPF provides a systems-based view of the work of UNECA, noting the interconnections and interdependence between the various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and building upon recent work of the UN system and others to take a holistic approach, such as contained in The Future Is Now: Science for Achieving Sustainable Development (2019) , for a sustainable future. This MTPF provides an overview of five areas of transformation as well as a set of eighteen outcomes describing the high-level changes necessary to realize the transformations. UNECA contributes to these outcomes through the provision of products and services under its three core functions – think tank, convening, and operational.