2020 Budget Framework Paper for the African Union;Draft

Abstract

The 2020 African Union Budget Framework Paper provides the link between the Union’s overall policies and the annual budget. It elaborates the African Union’s continued commitment to achieve the aspirations of Agenda 2063 and it’s First Ten Year Implementation Plan. It thus focuses on consolidating the gains made in the creation of the African Continental Free Trade Area that will remove barriers to trade, the Single African Air Transport Market, the free movement of persons as well as the Implementation of the AU Master Plan Road map of Practical Steps to silence the guns in Africa by the year 2020, mind full of the need to address emerging issues such as hastening demographic transition to reap the demographic dividend.