Africa: People-Centered Development - Why the Policy Priorities and Lived Experiences of African Citizens Should Matter for National Development Policy

Africa: People-Centered Development - Why the Policy Priorities and Lived Experiences of African Citizens Should Matter for National Development Policy

Development agenda setting is a key function of governments. But since the Millennium Declaration was adopted in 2000,1 national development agendas have been increasingly shaped by global and continental development policy frameworks, notably the United Nations (U.N.) Millennium Development Goals and their successor, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063. As governments seek to align their natio…