Africa-Press – Botswana. Botswana has commended the African Union Commission for doing a stellar job as per the report of the first Ten Year Implementation plan.
Vice President Slumber Tsogwane said this when contributing to the 37th ordinary session of the African Union Heads of State and Government Assembly in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia on February 17.
“The report of the first Ten Year Implementation Plan is a testament to our collective efforts, achievements and challenges we have encountered in our journey towards a peaceful, prosperous and integraded Africa,” he said.
Particularly encouraging, he said was the fact that the first Ten Year Plan was intricately aligned to the national development plans of member states.
Such an alignment, he underscored, was instrumental to ensuring a coherent and unified approach towards achieving sustainable development across the continent.
Mr Tsogwane however said that the essence of the AU collective vision, as outlined in Agenda 2063, lay not just in the harmonisation of plans, but critically in their execution.
He thus called on all to move with speed by fostering a culture of action, results as well as accountability; something he said would guarantee meaningful outcomes that would impact the lives of the Africans.
He assured the assembly that Botswana, which was developing its National Development Plan 12, would ensure its framework was in line with the second Ten Year Implementation Plan.
“Moreover, robust strategies will be employed to implement this plan effectively.
This will ensure that strategic alignment with the second Ten Year Implementation Plan significantly contributes to the realisation of both our National Vision 2036 and the collective vision for Africa,” he said.
As the African continent through AU transits to the second Ten Year Implementation Plan, Vice President Tsogwane emphasised the importance of inclusivity, sustainability and innovation as the building blocks of progress.
Botswana, he relayed, called for strategies that bolstered economic diversification, enhanced resilience to climate change and promoted digital transformation across the continent.
The importance of peace, security and good government as prerequisites for development, he stated, could not be overstated.
To this end, the assembly learnt that Botswana wanted to see strong mechanisms for conflict prevention, resolution and post-conflict reconstruction being developed.
He said the financing of Agenda 2063 was not only an economic imperative, but an ethical and moral responsibility that carried profound benefits for the destiny of posterity.
As such, he was of the view that resource mobilisation should be at the centre of all endeavours of the second Ten Year Implementation Plan. Mr Tsogwane also underscored the need to re-design the global financial landscape to take on board Africans.
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