A call to take action! |25 May 2015

Members of the global alliance of action/2015 and Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) have reminded African leaders to take action and deliver the African promise through the African Common position by financing to tackling inequalities, climate change and end poverty in all its forms.

This comes in a message from the alliance as Africa celebrates liberation day today, under the theme ‘2015 and beyond’.
The message reads:

“In less than 70 days, Africa will host the financing for development summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia a tool for implementation of the African common position which is Africa’s contribution to the SDGs framework for the next 15 years. We therefore remind our leaders during this summit to concentrate on taking action on the promises already made.

“Furthermore, we recognise that bad governance practices in some counties have limited peoples’ social, economic and political freedoms all of which have constantly stagnated development in all forms. Africa is already blessed with huge amounts of resources needless to mention the new discoveries in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and many other parts of the continent but without good governance and people’s participation, the resources have a potential of being a curse rather than a blessing to the African people. We therefore call on our leaders to take action and liberate Africa from the bondage of poverty, disease, youth unemployment, poor infrastructure, illiteracy, inland conflicts and terrorism.

“As the world looks forward to September for the adoption of the new development framework (SDGs) for the next 15 years as well as December when a new climate change agreement will be agreed, Action/2015 joins millions of other Africans looking up to and challenging African leaders to raise their ambitions for humanity. The decision made today will especially affect the lives of young people for the next 15 years, a period which will also impact generations to come.

“Therefore it is now time for our leaders to act and reach a consensus on the common challenges, priorities and aspirations and to actively participate in the debate and address issues that will affect the African people.

“And lastly, we are asking our leaders to rethink the key areas of Africa’s priorities to the achievement of the framework as recommended in the regional consultative meeting held in 2013 in Addis Ababa as:
•    Economic development
•    Social development
•    Environment
•    Good Governance and robust  institutions
•    Effective means of implementation”.

Homa Mungapen
Global Action Team for Africa