Key documents

Africa's Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action
February 2007, File size 992 KB, Language options: English and French
This plan of action consolidates science and technology programmes of the African Union (AU) Commission and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
June 2005, File size 2 068 KB
This progress report is the most comprehensive accounting to date on progress made in each of the world’s regions towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. It reflects a collaborative effort among a large number of agencies and organizations within and outside the United Nations system. All have provided the most up-to-date data possible in their areas of responsibility, helping thereby to achieve clarity and consistency in the report.

Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
January 2005, File size 3 584 KB
Investing in Development brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. By outlining practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

NEPAD Framework
October 2001, File size 307 KB
This New Partnership for Africa.s Development is a pledge by African leaders, based on a common vision and a firm and shared conviction, that they have a pressing duty to eradicate poverty and to place their countries, both individually and collectively, on a path of sustainable growth and development and, at the same time, to participate actively in the world economy and body politic. The Programme is anchored on the determination of Africans to extricate themselves and the continent from the malaise of underdevelopment and exclusion in a globalising world.

Lagos plan of action for the economic development of Africa
1980, File size 219 KB
The Heads of' State and Government, meeting in Lagos at the 2nd Extraordinary Session devoted to Africa's economic problems, adopted the Lagos Plan of Action as well as the Final Act of Lagos as a way forward for the economic development of Africa.

Monrovia Declaration of Commitment
July 1979, File size 48 KB
The Monrovia Declaration of Commitment is a declaration adoped by the Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity on guidelines and measures for national and collective self-reliance in social and economic development for the establishment of a new international economic order.