The Second Ten Year Implementation Plan, 2024 to 2033, is the current delivery phase of Agenda 2063. It is officially described as the Decade of Acceleration. Where the First Ten Year Implementation Plan, 2014 to 2023, focused on aligning national, regional and continental plans, the Second Plan focuses on accelerating delivery and producing results that citizens can feel.
The defining feature of the plan is a set of seven Moonshots. Each Moonshot expresses one of the original Aspirations as a single, bold, measurable ambition for 2033.
Moonshot 1. By 2033, every African Union member state attains at least middle income status. This carries forward Aspiration 1 and its goals on living standards, transformed economies, agriculture, the blue economy and environmental sustainability.
Moonshot 2. By 2033, Africa is more integrated and connected. This carries forward Aspiration 2 and its goals on a united Africa, continental financial institutions and world class infrastructure, anchored by the African Continental Free Trade Area and a target of at least 30 percent intra-African trade.
Moonshot 3. By 2033, public institutions are more responsive. This carries forward Aspiration 3 and its goals on democratic values and capable institutions.
Moonshot 4. By 2033, Africa resolves conflicts amicably. This carries forward Aspiration 4 and its goals on peace, security and a fully operational African Peace and Security Architecture.
Moonshot 5. By 2033, African culture and values are explicit and promoted. This carries forward Aspiration 5 and the goal of an African cultural renaissance.
Moonshot 6. By 2033, Africa's citizens are more empowered and more productive. This carries forward Aspiration 6 together with the education, health, gender and youth goals.
Moonshot 7. By 2033, Africa is a strong and influential global player. This carries forward Aspiration 7 and its goals on Africa's place in global affairs and financing development from domestic resources.
The plan sets out a theory of change. Moonshot interventions are derived from strategic objectives, they embed resilience after the lessons of recent global, financial and security shocks, and they are delivered through three implementation pathways, continental frameworks of the African Union, regional frameworks of the Regional Economic Communities, and the national development plans of member states.
The plan also defines governance and monitoring arrangements, a costing framework, and a schedule of evaluations, with a mid term evaluation in 2028 and an end term evaluation in 2032 that will inform the Third Ten Year Implementation Plan and Africa's position in the global development framework beyond 2030.
Key figures referenced in the plan include lifting gross domestic product per capita, raising intra-African trade toward at least 30 percent, expanding access to electricity and digital connectivity, reducing extreme poverty, and increasing domestic resource mobilisation measured as tax to gross domestic product.