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he journey to transform the IGAD region is outlined in the strategic framework since its first Strategic plan in 1987. IGAD’s Regional Strategy and its Implementation Plans have served as a comprehensive development and implementation framework, guiding the Programme’s priority areas and aligning them to emerging issues in the region.
The formulation of the IGAD Regional Strategy and Implementation Matrix 2021–2025 is the culmination of a long and intensive process that began in January 2020, following a decision to develop the IGAD’s Vision 2050. Subsequent meetings resulted in an extensive consultative process that drafted a conceptual framework for the IGAD Vision2050 and later formulated the Regional Strategy that was anchored on Vision 2050.
The IGAD Strategic framework is derived from the organisation’s mandate. The mandate plays the important role of translating the IGAD Vision 2050 into the IGAD Regional Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021–2025. It does so by committing to move towards 2050 by leveraging areas of excellence and implementing priorities aimed at achieving a sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development. This will be done through socio-economic growth, regional integration as well as peace and security, and guided by the purposes and principles of the Agreement Establishing IGAD.
