Our Partnership
Mandate

To accelerate the implementation of the African Union Green Recovery Action Plan (2021-2027) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), driving green economy development, ecosystem conservation, and strategic action across Africa. The initiative will leverage the OnePAGE Framework to mobilize multi-stakeholder collaboration and innovative solutions for sustainable growth.

The Alliance is anchored in the SDG 17 framework which aims to “Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”, promoting a platform to advance 6 of the 19 critical targets of SDG 17:

Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection.
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Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources.
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Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries.
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Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development.
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Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries.
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Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.
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Our Partnership Principles of Cooperation and Shared Value Creation

These principles create a foundation for meaningful, sustainable collaboration, ensuring that the Alliance’s work is impactful, resilient, and adaptable to the evolving landscape of green economy development in Africa.

Integrity and Interdependence

Partnerships are built on trust and respect for each other’s contributions. Each actor in the Alliance acknowledges their dependence on others for success, promoting a deep sense of mutual accountability and responsibility.

Complementarity and Mutual Benefit

Partners collaborate by complementing each other’s capabilities, ensuring equitable valuesharing. The objective is to achieve more collectively than any stakeholder could individually, ensuring that outcomes are mutually beneficial.

Dynamism of Development

Acknowledging the fast-paced evolution of development needs, partners commit to flexibility in strategy, allowing for rapid adaptation to shifts in socio-economic, environmental, and political landscapes across Africa.

Adaptability

Recognizing that Africa is not monolithic, partners adopt flexible approaches, ensuring solutions are tailored to the specific economic, ecological, and social contexts of each region and community.

Transparency

Openness in decision-making, reporting, and resource allocation ensures that all partners are aware of processes and progress. Transparency builds trust and accountability, helping to prevent miscommunication and fostering confidence among all stakeholders.

Co-Evolution

Partners recognize that change is a continuous, evolving process. The partnership fosters cocreation of solutions, where learning from each other is paramount, and success is viewed as an ongoing journey rather than a static achievement.

Self-Organization and Self- Learning

The Alliance promotes decentralization, enabling communities and local actors to self-organize around the challenges they face, while sharing lessons and strategies for improvement across the network.

Heterogeneity and Duplication of Relationships

The diversity of partners ensures a range of solutions are tested and implemented across different sectors and regions. Duplication of relationships is a key pillar in building a resilient, adaptive, and sustainable partnership ecosystem. By ensuring that multiple stakeholders are working towards similar goals through diverse pathways, the Alliance creates a robust and flexible network capable of achieving long-term transformational change.

Collaborative Innovation Culture

Innovation lies at the core of this Alliance. Partners are committed to sharing knowledge, experimentation, and research to generate novel solutions, ensuring that we challenge existing paradigms and think beyond traditional development models.