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Therefore, despite a few exceptions, Africa at the turn of the Millennium lacked the long-term planning capacities and effective institutions required for the sustainable and inclusive transformation of the continent. There was little incentive for transparency, let alone accountability to citizens, as governments barely had the policy space to design and execute their own development plans.
Since the early 2000s, Africa has been moving steadily towards a commonly defined future, resting on a more integrated continent, where countries and regions have the means and tools to mobilise their own resources to implement and manage their development programmes.
Building on the policy process initiated with the Lagos Plan of Action (1980), the adoption of the NEPAD programme in 2001 and the establishment of the African Union in 2002 accelerated and embedded regional integration more strongly as the transformation strategy for the continent.
The formulation of the NEPAD programme as Africa’s blueprint for socioeconomic transformation was Africa’s own resolve to put an end to the era of structural adjustment.
This Report can be be accessed at http://www.nepad.org/system/files/NEPAD%20Strategic%20Plan%20for%20the%20period%202014-2017.pdf