New Partnership for Africa's Development : Progress in Implementation and International Support

A/RES/80/288View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 65a From the New Partnership for Africa's Development to Agenda 2063 : progress in the implementation of sustainable development in Africa and international support, published in 2026.

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23 versions · 2004–2026

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2026	A/RES/80/288	New Partnership for Africa's Development : progress in implementation and international support	6,353	41%Compare
2025	A/RES/79/263	New Partnership for Africa's Development : progress in implementation and international support	6,592	94%Compare
2024	A/RES/78/262	New Partnership for Africa's Development : progress in implementation and international support	6,420	70%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/270	New Partnership for Africa's Development : progress in implementation and international support	5,079	72%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/297	New Partnership for Africa's Development : progress in implementation and international support	3,896	95%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

24 reports · 2004–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/297	A strategic asset management framework for Africa's sustainable development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/288
2025	A/80/185	Strengthening the national and international architecture for financing for development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/262
2024	A/79/295	Unpacking the debt of Africa : towards a lasting and durable solution report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/262
2023	A/78/309	Solving the paradoxes of development in Africa : financing, energy and food systems report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/270
2022	A/76/888	New Partnership for Africa's Development : 19th consolidated progress report on implementation and international support : financing for development in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic : primacy of domestic resource mobilization report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/322

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6 subjects

Africa Cooperation Between Organizations Development Assistance Partnership Regional Cooperation Sustainable Development

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60 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Strengthening the national and international architecture for financing for development”;¹⁴

¹⁴A/80/185.

Also takes note of the biennial report of the Secretary-General on the review of the implementation of commitments made towards Africa’s development¹⁵ and the interactive multi-stakeholder dialogue co-organized by the President of the General Assembly and the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa on 21 July 2025 to discuss the main findings and recommendations contained in the report;

¹⁵A/79/962.

Reiterates that the strengthening of country systems, supported by regional and international frameworks, is the most direct path to mobilizing resources for sustainable development in Africa;

Recognizes the efforts of the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development, and in this regard reaffirms the essential role played by the Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee of the Agency, welcomes the efforts by development partners to strengthen cooperation with the Agency, and underscores the importance of coherent and coordinated implementation of Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,¹⁶ while acknowledging that much needs to be done to overcome the challenges in their implementation;

¹⁶Resolution 70/1.

Emphasizes the need for the United Nations development system to further cooperate with the African Union and the regional economic communities, to follow up on African development priorities in line with the 2030 Agenda and the African Union Agenda 2063 and its flagship programmes that could require United Nations financial and technical assistance within existing resources, and the need for United Nations agencies, in line with their respective mandates, to strengthen their relationship with the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development;

Encourages African countries to strengthen and expand local and regional infrastructure, while recognizing the importance of sustainable and resilient urbanization, and quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, and sustainable urbanization investment, through both foreign and domestic investment, and to continue to share best practices with a view to strengthening regional and continental integration, and in this regard recognizes the need for Africa’s development partners to align their efforts towards supporting the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa;

Encourages the efforts to improve Africa’s business and investment environment and to attract investment from all sources, including from the private sector, especially in quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure;

Recognizes the importance of supporting countries in accelerating their efforts to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, and to promote the empowerment of the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including women, children and youth, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, older persons, persons with disabilities, migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons and all low-income families;

Stresses the importance of taking targeted measures to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, of implementing nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including social protection floors, and of achieving substantial and universal coverage of the poor and the vulnerable;

Encourages African countries to accelerate the achievement of the objective of food security and nutrition as well as the realization of the right to adequate food in Africa through healthy diets and sustainable agrifood systems with the support of Africa’s development partners, and requests the Secretary-General to step up cooperation with the African Union and relevant stakeholders to boost food security, nutrition and resilience on the continent;

Welcomes the adoption of the new Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme Strategy and Action Plan (2026–2035) and the Kampala Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme Declaration on Building Resilient and Sustainable Agrifood Systems in Africa adopted during the African Union extraordinary summit held in Kampala from 9 to 11 January 2025;

Calls upon the international community to continue its support for the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, including the ambition to mobilize up to 100 billion United States dollars in public and private investment for agrifood systems transformation;

Welcomes the establishment of a 1.5 billion dollar African Emergency Food Production Plan facility by the African Development Bank, and further calls upon development partners to honour their pledge of 30 billion dollars to support Africa in boosting agricultural productivity, made at the Dakar 2 Summit on Feed Africa: Food Sovereignty and Resilience, held in January 2023, and appreciates contributions of development partners to support them by providing parallel financing;

Stresses the need to involve the mobilization of large-scale trade credit guarantees and technical assistance in the revitalized approach to food systems set out in the strategy of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, to help to de-risk financing and empower small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises to help to drive the continent’s industrialization and food security;

Remains deeply concerned about the persistent and recurring food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition in different regions of the world and their ongoing negative impact on health and nutrition, including in Africa, further exacerbated by the adverse impacts of climate change, volatility in global financial and commodity markets and geopolitical tensions, and in this regard underlines the urgent need for joint efforts at all levels to respond to the situation in a coherent and effective manner by aligning actions with national and regional response plans, making full use of endogenous mechanisms, including local, national and regional reserves;

Calls for effective measures and targeted investments to strengthen national health systems and to ensure access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene to prevent, protect against and combat outbreaks of diseases, including the Ebola virus disease and coronavirus disease (COVID‑19), recognizes in this regard that human, animal, plant and ecosystem health are interdependent, invites development partners to continue to assist African countries in their efforts to strengthen national health systems, to expand, strengthen and maintain surveillance systems in the health sector, in order to implement and comply with the International Health Regulations (2005),¹⁷ and to eliminate diseases, while recognizing a One Health approach, and in this context calls upon development partners to support the implementation of the African Health Strategy 2016–2030 and the transition towards universal health coverage in Africa, and calls for enhancing the capacity of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, including to support Africa’s manufacture of vaccines, and urges Member States and the international community to support the continental development and manufacture of safe and effective vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics and medical products;

¹⁷World Health Organization, document WHA58/2005/REC/1, resolution 58.3, annex.

Encourages African countries to continue their efforts in enhancing education and technical and vocational training and stresses in this regard the importance of creating a conducive environment for science, technology and innovation taking advantage of frontier technologies and investing in digitalization to strengthen connectivity, and urges all relevant stakeholders to consider ensuring appropriate financing of digital development and adequate means of implementation, including strengthened capacity-building of developing countries, especially African countries;

Welcomes the decision of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union to establish 2026–2036 as the Decade of Reparations, following the African Union theme of the year 2025,¹⁸ also welcomes the decision of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union to designate “Assuring sustainable water availability and safe sanitation systems to achieve the goals of Agenda 2063” as the African Union theme of the year 2026,¹⁹ and requests the Secretary-General to organize during the resumed eightieth session of the General Assembly and subsequent sessions a high-level policy dialogue between policymakers, practitioners, experts and civil society in the context of the Africa Dialogue Series around the African Union theme of the year;

¹⁸See African Union decision Assembly/AU/Dec.884(XXXVII).

¹⁹See African Union decision Assembly/AU/Dec.912(XXXVIII).

Encourages African countries to formulate and implement industrialization development plans and policies in line with their national conditions and their respective development strategies, in promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth;

Highlights the importance of investment in the infrastructure which is necessary to improve connectivity and value addition, the development of special economic zones based on priority sectors, and the adoption of clear industrial policy harmonized at the continental level;

Encourages African countries to accelerate the development of the digital infrastructure, enhance the accessibility of digital technologies and seize the development opportunities brought by the digital economy, to bridge the digital divides;

Recognizes the important role that African regional economic communities can play in the implementation of the mandate of the New Partnership and Agenda 2063 and its second 10-year implementation plan (2024–2033), in close cooperation with the African Union, and in this regard encourages African countries and the international community to give regional economic communities the support necessary to strengthen their capacity;

Reiterates the need to support African countries in strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices and data systems to ensure access to high-quality, timely, reliable and disaggregated data;

Recognizes that Africa is one of the regions that contribute the least to climate change, yet is extremely vulnerable and exposed to its adverse impacts, expresses deep concern about the increasing challenges posed by drought, land degradation, desertification, the loss of biodiversity and floods, and their negative consequences on the fight against poverty, famine and hunger, and in this regard calls upon the international community, including developed countries, to continue to support Africa to address its adaptation needs through, inter alia, the development, voluntary transfer, and deployment of technology on mutually agreed terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, capacity-building and the provision of adequate and predictable resources, in line with existing commitments, and highlights the need for full implementation by their respective Parties of the agreed outcomes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, and the Convention on Biological Diversity²⁰ and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework,²¹ as well as the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa,²² including its 2018–2030 strategic framework,²³ and urges developed countries to fully deliver on the commitment to a goal of mobilizing jointly 100 billion dollars per year urgently and through to 2025 to address the needs of developing countries, in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation, for climate action, particularly for climate adaptation, in accordance with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;

²⁰United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1760, No. 30619.

²¹United Nations Environment Programme, document CBD/COP/15/17, decision 15/4, annex.

²²United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480.

²³ICCD/COP(13)/21/Add.1, decision 7/COP.13, annex.

Welcomes the convening of the second Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa from 8 to 10 September 2025, and takes note of the Addis Ababa Declaration on Climate Change and Call to Action, including the African Climate Innovation Compact and the African Climate Facility, and reaffirms the importance of the provision of the means of implementation to developing countries;

Reiterates its deep concern about the growing illicit financial flows, internationally and domestically, including those derived from trade mispricing and misinvoicing and other illegal practices, emphasizes that illicit financial flows reduce the availability of valuable resources, including for financing for development, welcomes in this regard the political declaration adopted at the thirty-second special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Our common commitment to effectively addressing challenges and implementing measures to prevent and combat corruption and strengthen international cooperation”,²⁴ reiterates the commitment to substantially reduce illicit financial flows by 2030, with a view to eventually eliminating them, including by combating tax evasion, tax avoidance, corruption and organized crime through strengthened national institutional and policy frameworks and international cooperation in line with the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, and acknowledges the need to strengthen good practices on assets return and recovery;

²⁴Resolution S-32/1, annex.

Notes the Marrakech Declaration adopted by African countries at the high-level ministerial meeting on accelerating the financing of Africa’s emergence, held on 12 October 2023, on the sidelines of the World Bank-International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings in Morocco, which called for a global financial architecture that is equitable and conducive to Africa’s development;

Recognizes in this regard the urgent need for bold and ambitious reforms to create a stable, sustainable and inclusive international financial architecture, and reiterates that the international financial architecture, including its business models and financing capacities, must be made more fit for purpose, equitable and responsive to the financing needs of developing countries, to broaden and strengthen the voice and participation of developing countries in international economic decision-making, norm-setting and global economic governance;

Urges multilateral development banks to bring forward actions to mobilize and provide additional financing within their mandates to support developing countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, supports multilateral development bank reform efforts, and calls for continued tangible progress in this regard, including through securing increases to grants and concessional finance, better leveraging their capital bases and considering ways for the respective boards of the multilateral development banks to increase their capitalization, and encourages dialogue between multilateral development banks and other financial institutions;

Reiterates that debt sustainability depends on a confluence of many factors at the international and national levels, and emphasizes that country-specific circumstances and the impact of external shocks, such as volatile commodity and energy prices, more intense and frequent natural disasters and international capital flows, should continue to be taken into account in debt sustainability analyses;

Welcomes the establishment on 15 April 2026 of the platform for borrower countries mandated by paragraph 48 (i) of the Sevilla Commitment,²⁵ and encourage open engagement with all relevant stakeholders;

²⁵Resolution 79/323, annex.

Also welcomes the decision of the International Monetary Fund to approve the use of special drawing rights for the acquisition of hybrid capital instruments issued by prescribed holders, and encourages countries in a position to do so to contribute to the special drawing rights-based hybrid-capital channelling solutions by the African Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, ideally by the end of 2025, while respecting relevant legal frameworks and preserving the reserve asset character of special drawing rights, and support exploring other voluntary special drawing rights rechannelling initiatives through multilateral development banks;

Highlights the need to expand innovative finance tools for African countries, such as debt for climate and nature swaps and Sustainable Development Goal-linked thematic bonds, where appropriate, to be achieved by pooling and increasing the availability of credit enhancement mechanisms, and encourages the issuance of Goal-linked bonds supported by guarantees and blended finance tools, which could help African countries to gain access to capital markets affordably and generate fiscal savings;

Welcomes the special drawing rights allocation of the equivalent of the 650 billion dollars of 23 August 2021, commends the achievement of the target of 100 billion dollars in pledges for rechannelling special drawing rights or equivalent contributions, recommends the exploration of further voluntary options related to special drawing rights that could serve the needs of the developing member countries of the International Monetary Fund, calls for the urgent voluntary rechannelling of special drawing rights for countries most in need, including through multilateral development banks, while respecting relevant legal frameworks and preserving the reserve asset character of special drawing rights, and will explore ways for future allocations of special drawing rights to benefit those countries most in need;

Also welcomes the decision of the International Monetary and Financial Committee to improve the voice and representation of sub-Saharan Africa, with the creation of a twenty-fifth chair on the International Monetary Fund Executive Board for sub-Saharan Africa;

Further welcomes the accession of the African Union as a permanent member of the Group of 20 at the New Delhi Summit held on 9 and 10 September 2023;

Reiterates that we will continue to engage constructively in the negotiations on the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation and its protocols, and encourages support for the process;

Reaffirms that achieving gender equality, empowering all women and girls, and the full realization of their human rights are essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development, reiterates the need for gender mainstreaming, including targeted actions and investments in the formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies, and recommits to adopting and strengthening sound policies and enforceable legislation and transformative actions for the promotion of gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment at all levels, to ensure women’s equal rights, access and opportunities for participation and leadership in the economy and to eliminate gender-based violence, sexual exploitation and abuse and discrimination in all its forms;

Welcomes the progress that has been achieved in implementing the African Peer Review Mechanism, in particular the voluntary adherence of 45 African countries to the Mechanism and the completion of the peer review process in 26 countries, and also welcomes the progress in implementing the national programmes of action resulting from those reviews;

Emphasizes that debt sustainability is essential for underpinning growth, underlining the importance of debt sustainability, debt transparency and effective debt management to the efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, stresses the need to continue to assist developing countries, including African countries, in avoiding a build-up of unsustainable debt, taking into account the challenges posed by the global economic environment and risks for debt sustainability in a growing number of developing countries, and the consequent need for coordinated policy responses, and recognizes the important role, on a case-by-case basis, of debt relief, including debt cancellation, as appropriate, and debt restructuring as debt crisis prevention, management and resolution tools;

Calls upon African countries to continue their efforts to create a domestic environment conducive to encouraging entrepreneurship, supporting micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, especially those owned by women and youth, promoting the formalization of informal sector activities in Africa and attracting investments by, inter alia, achieving a transparent, stable and predictable investment climate, and invites Africa’s development partners to promote investment by their private sector in Africa and to facilitate the development and transfer of technology to African countries on mutually agreed terms;

Notes the Algiers Declaration for Start-up Development adopted at the African Start-up Conference held in Algiers from 6 to 8 December 2025, which called for accelerating the development of Africa’s start-up ecosystem;

Also notes that foreign direct investment is a major source of financing for development, that it has a critical role in achieving inclusive economic growth and sustainable development, including through the promotion of decent job creation and the eradication of poverty and hunger, and that it contributes to the active participation of the African economies in the global economy and facilitates regional economic cooperation and integration, and in this regard calls upon, as appropriate, developed countries to continue to devise source-country measures to encourage and facilitate the flow of foreign direct investment through, inter alia, the provision of export credits and other lending instruments, risk guarantees and business development services;

Acknowledges the progress made towards ensuring the free movement of persons as well as goods and services in Africa, and welcomes the entry into force of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area on 30 May 2019, and the ongoing efforts to fully operationalize the Agreement, including the actual commencement of trading on 1 January 2021 aimed at doubling intra-African trade to strengthen Africa’s resilience and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals;

Requests all stakeholders to support the acceleration of the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area, which could address the lack of industrialization, regional integration and economies of scale in African countries, especially to improve infrastructure while also delivering sustainable development of national and regional value chains in support of the continent’s economic and structural transformation and Agenda 2063 objectives;

Notes with concern Africa’s disproportionately low share of the volume of international trade, reiterates the need for all countries and relevant multilateral institutions to continue efforts to enhance coherence in their trade policies towards African countries, and acknowledges the importance of efforts to fully integrate African countries into the multilateral trading system and to build their capacity to compete through such initiatives as Aid for Trade and the provision of assistance to address the adjustment challenges of trade liberalization;

Emphasizes the importance of making progress on the accession of developing countries to the World Trade Organization, recognizing the contribution that their accession would make to the full integration of those countries into the multilateral trading system, urges in this regard the facilitation of the accession process on a technical and legal basis and in a transparent manner for African countries that are in the process of accession to the World Trade Organization, and reaffirms the importance of that organization’s decision on accession by the least developed countries;²⁶

²⁶Decision WT/L/508/Add.1 of 25 July 2012.

Calls upon Governments, as well as relevant international and regional organizations and other relevant stakeholders, to combine, as appropriate, the increased use of clean technologies and renewable energy technologies, low- or zero-emissions solutions, more efficient use of energy, energy storage and greater reliance on advanced energy technologies, including technologies that avoid, abate and remove greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon capture utilization and storage technologies and direct air capture;

Encourages Governments, relevant international and regional organizations and other relevant stakeholders to promote investments in developing sustainable, reliable, modern, inclusive and equitable energy systems, inter alia, by strengthening energy systems through cross-border grid connections, as appropriate, and to consider incorporating decentralized, clean and renewable energy solutions in energy planning, as appropriate, and recognizes that energy transitions will take different paths in different parts of the world;

Welcomes the various important initiatives established between African countries and their development partners, and emphasizes the need for their effective implementation, and in this regard recognizes the important role that North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation can play in supporting Africa’s development efforts, particularly the implementation of the New Partnership, based on African identified needs and priorities, while bearing in mind that South-South cooperation is not a substitute for but rather a complement to North-South cooperation;

Reaffirms that international support must be aligned with Africa’s own priorities, reiterates its call for the United Nations system to cooperate with the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development to support African countries and regional economic communities in providing knowledge-based advisory services for advancing the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 under the second 10-year implementation plan (2024–2033), as well as facilitating the dissemination of best practices, and requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with Member States, to follow up on this cooperation through existing reporting;

Reiterates that the fulfilment of all official development assistance commitments remains crucial, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance to the least developed countries, is encouraged by those few countries that have met or surpassed their commitment to 0.7 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance and the target of 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance to the least developed countries, and urges all others to step up efforts to increase their official development assistance and to make additional concrete efforts towards official development assistance targets;

Reiterates the call upon development partners to collectively at least double their support to developing countries for strengthening domestic resource mobilization by 2030 and recalls that this increase should be targeted at developing countries aiming to increase tax-to-gross domestic product ratios, especially those seeking to increase their ratios to at least 15 per cent, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to assist African Member States in overcoming constraints, including data asymmetries and deficits in digital public infrastructure, with a view to expanding capacity for strengthened domestic resource mobilization;

Emphasizes the open, inclusive and transparent discussions on the modernization of official development assistance measurement, and takes note of the new measure of “total official support for sustainable development” while reaffirming that any such measure will not dilute commitments already made;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to help to operationalize the African Union Domestic Resource Mobilization Strategy 2025–2033;

Welcomes the establishment of the Africa Credit Rating Agency, and looks forward to its full operationalization;

Requests the United Nations system to continue to provide assistance to the New Partnership and to African countries in developing projects and programmes within the scope of the priorities of the New Partnership, and requests the Secretary-General to promote greater coherence in the work of the United Nations system in support of Agenda 2063, its related flagship project and second 10-year implementation plan (2024–2033), and in this regard calls upon the United Nations system to continue to mainstream the special needs of Africa in all its normative and operational activities;

Invites Member States and all relevant entities of the United Nations system, including funds, programmes, specialized agencies and regional commissions, in particular the Economic Commission for Africa, and all relevant international and regional organizations, to continue to contribute to the effectiveness and reliability of the United Nations monitoring mechanism process by cooperating in the collection of data and the evaluation of performance, and requests the Secretary-General to organize an interactive multi-stakeholder dialogue to discuss the main findings and recommendations contained in the biennial report of the Secretary-General on the review of the implementation of commitments made toward Africa’s development during the resumed eighty-first session of the General Assembly to coincide with the publication of the report;

Decides to include the item entitled “From the New Partnership for Africa’s Development to Agenda 2063: progress in the implementation of sustainable development in Africa and international support” in the provisional agenda for consideration and decision during the main part of its eighty-first session;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly, on an annual basis, a comprehensive and action-oriented report to inform the discussions under the agenda item, including on the implementation of the present resolution, based on the provision of inputs from Governments, organizations of the United Nations system and other stakeholders in the New Partnership.

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