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As the Third International Financing for Development conference kicks off in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Africa is set to begin implementing its ambitious 50-year development blueprint, Agenda 2063, bringing into focus the issue of how to finance development plans.

L’Afrique entame la mise en oeuvre de son ambitieux plan de developpement de 50 ans denomme Agenda 2063, centre sur la question du financement des plans de developpement, au moment ou s’ouvre a Addis-Abeba, en Ethiopie, la troisieme Conference internationale sur le financement du developpement.

At this year’s annual summit of the African Union, attending leaders declared 2015 the Year of Women’s Empowerment in acknowledgement of the increasing role women are playing in Africa’s development. The declaration comes as the continent prepares to kickstart the implementation of its 50-year development plan that was launched in 2013. Dubbed Agenda 2063, the plan is a pan-African vision that is expected to steer the continent towards “an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global arena”.

Le sommet annuel de l’Union Africaine de cette annee a declare 2015 Annee de l’autonomisation de femmes en reconnaisse de leur contribution au developpement de l’Afrique, alors que le continent s’appretait a mettre en oeuvre son plan de developpement de 50 ans ; l’Agenda 2013. Lance en 2013 ce plan devrait mener le continent vers une « Afrique integree, prospere et en paix, dirigee par ses citoyens et constituant une force dynamique sur la scene mondiale ».