INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA

What:                    Meeting for the Development of a Roadmap for the Convergence of African Union Commission (AUC)/African Development Bank (AfDB)/United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) Monitoring and Evaluation Systems for The First Ten Year Implementation Plan of Agenda 2063.

When:                  16 - 18 November 2015

Who:                     The African Union Commission in Collaboration with the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

Where:                 Hilton Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya

Objectives:   The objectives of the meeting are as follows:

To identify the Convergence Areas (including for the M&E of the First Ten Year Implementation Plan)
To develop the Convergence Framework
To develop RECs Plans for Convergence (including a Change Management Plan; cost etc.)
To develop a Common Policy Guidelines at the RECs level on M&E of the First Ten Year Implementation Plan

Participants:   Monitoring and Evaluation Experts and Practitioners from the AUC, AfDB, UNECA, Joint Secretariat Support Office (JSSO), NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency (NPCA),  and all the eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs).

Expected outcomes:  Participants are expected to propose concrete mechanisms to be used for the establishment of a roadmap for the convergence of AUC/AFDB/UNECA and RECS monitoring and evaluation systems for Agenda 2063.

Background:     Agenda 2063 was adopted by the 24th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly on the 31 January 2015 as is anchored on the AU Constitutive Act, the Pan African vision of “an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the international arena”, the 50th Anniversary Solemn Declaration 2013 as well as the national, regional and continental priorities. The First Ten-Year Implementation Plan for Agenda 2063 builds upon the Agenda 2063 Framework Document adopted in January 2015, and seeks to accelerate Africa’s political, social, economic and technological transformation while continuing the Pan African drive for self-determination, freedom, progress and collective prosperity.

                          A workshop was organized by the AUC and supported by the JSSO of the AUC, the AfDB and the ECA in Johannesburg, 22-25 September 2015, on the convergence of RECs monitoring and evaluation systems against the background of the monitoring and evaluation of The First Ten Year Implementation Plan of Agenda 2063. During the workshop, it was agreed that:

The existing structural framework between (TRIPARTITE) ECOWAS, SADC and EAC should be expanded to cover the other five RECs, the AUC, the AfDB and the ECA for the purpose of the integration of the M&E of the First Ten Year Implementation Plan on their convergence agenda.
Other RECs not present should be invited to join the framework process.

That the enlarged group will meet in Nairobi, Kenya, 16 - 18 November 2015 at the invitation / sponsorship of the AUC to develop a road map for the monitoring and evaluation systems convergence process.
The AUC will outline the issues / areas that could form the basis for the convergence process road map deliberations as discussed in Johannesburg.

The Nairobi meeting aims at materializing the recommendations of the meeting that took place in Johannesburg.

Media representatives are to cover the meeting.