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Vision 2050
Executive Summary
The IGAD Vision 2050 is the region’s long-term development blueprint covering the period 2020 to 2050. Against the backdrop of the socioeconomic challenges and fragility, conflict & violence, the IGAD citizens’ vision is that of ‘a resilient, peaceful, prosperous & integrated region where citizens enjoy a high quality of life’. IGAD Vision 2050 provides development pathways through identification of priorities, strategic initiatives and development results to lead to the attainment of the Citizens’ aspirations and the vision. It ultimately aims to transform the region into a secure upper middle-income region where citizens enjoy a high quality of life by 2050.
The formulation of IGAD Vision 2050 was largely a two-stage process. The first stage involved conducting extensive study of the literature both empirical and various long-term and medium-term strategy documents, on-going programmes and their attendant performance reports for the IGAD member States. The process also involved analysing the regional and global development agenda such as the Africa Agenda 2063, the SDG 2030 and other regional economic cooperations (RECs) plans among others. This led to the development of the conceptual framework of the IGAD Vision 2050 which was in part the basis of the extensive consultations that were employed to generate new ideas, as well as inform the Vision itself.
Under the leadership of the IGAD secretariat in Djibouti and with support of the IGAD Mission Oices, extensive stakeholder consultations both physical and virtual were held in various locations in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda with various teams of experts. The experts that served as key informants included academics and researchers from regional universities, policy research bodies and think tanks; technical teams in the Divisions of IGAD and its specialised institutions; Government delegations through the National Expert Panels; development partners; private sector associations; media associations; and civil society associations.
