The 2026 Africa Sustainable Development Report (ASDR) sets the direction to intensify efforts on the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union’s Agenda 2063 in the lead-up to 2030.
The African Union's Agenda 2063 offers a bold blueprint for "The Africa We Want," while the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides a universal pathway toward prosperity, inclusion, and sustainability.
A decade after ‘Billions to Trillions’ took hold of the development finance agenda, the slogan has little to show for it. Narrowly focused on closing the highly publicised climate- and development-finance gaps, the Billions to Trillions approach centres on leveraging international public finance to catalyse increased private investment.
Why water must be managed not as a crisis, but as Africa’s most strategic asset, and a catalyst for inclusive growth, climate resilience, and lasting peace. Africa's prosperity hinges on the management of this critical resource.
The generation after 2030 can inherit something different, if Africa's leadership chooses now to govern water as what it already is: a driver of economic transformation, a foundation of peace, and the most important asset the continent holds in trust for its children.
Despite vast agricultural potential, Africa still imports billions of dollars’ worth of food and depends heavily on food aid. Dr. Meshack Malo is the Deputy Regional Representative for Africa at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and explains both the challenges and why technology and youth will determine whether the continent can feed itself. Below are excerpts from that discussion: Food insecurity has been a…
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