Aligning the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063 with planning frameworks in Africa

The year 2016 will usher in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals, a new development agenda anchored by the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental. Sustainable development is also at the heart of Agenda 2063, a continent-wide framework for development, and of the Paris Agreement on climate change reached at the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Implementation of the 2030 Agenda is being supported through the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which was adopted in July 2015.