Foreword
Formulating a Programme of Work to translate the Vision of the African Union into concrete action is a priority for the Commission.
The Vision has a long-term horizon, but the strategy to get there is necessarily sequential. This document retains the 2004 – 2007 horizon, in the spirit of realism and pragmatism. It spells out the broad outlines around which the programme of the Commission could be built.
The qualitative transformation of the OAU into the African Union reflects the awareness by Africans that the Continent has arrived at a cross roads, and that it is absolutely necessary to change its future and infuse renewed hopes in the daughters and sons of Africa. To this end, the Constitutive Act establishing the African Union offers a unique opportunity: that of paving the way for the Continent’s integration and thereby speeding up its renaissance. The document titled “Vision and Missions” has charted the course to follow. The objective of the African Union is to build a new Africa, an Africa victorious over its numerous
challenges, an Africa that will tomorrow assert itself as a dynamic force in the global arena.
The Commission is at the very centre of this endeavour. In accordance with the wishes of the Founders of the African Union, the Commission is even the pilot of this endeavour; and in pursuance thereof, it is backstopped by the guidelines issued by our Heads of State and Government, and supported in its operations by the other Organs of the Union as well as by the building blocks of the Union, namely: the Regional Economic Communities.
In order to effective discharge its mission, it is needful for the Commission to map out its flight plan, while identifying the key factors of success which would enable it to attain the desired goals. This is the primary objective of this Second Volume of the 2004 – 2007 Strategic Plan of the Commission of the African Union captioned “Strategic Framework”.
Formulated in a participatory manner and synergizing all Departments of the Commission, the Strategic Framework presents the
strategic guidelines which blend the long-term vision (Volume 1) with the Action Plans of the Commission (Volume 3). The active collaboration and the unalloyed and abiding commitment of all staff members of the Commission is a prerequisite for the effective execution of this Strategic Framework.
Guided by the absolute need for efficacy and driven by the virtues of voluntarism and tenacity, the Commission places high on its agenda for the period 2004 – 2007, the establishment of the basic foundations and infrastructure of the future of the African Union. Strengthening the capacities of the stakeholders, installation of the key institutions and implementation of the priority programmes will therefore form part of the areas of focus in this first phase of progress towards the economic and political integration of the Continent.
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