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Contents1. UPLIFTING AFRICANS 22

1.1 Change the mindset- Re-Branding Africa! 23The Role of Media: 24

• Lead SA 26 • Lead India 26

The Role of the Private Sector 27Practical involvement by private sector: 28

1.2 Build and retain human capital 281.3 Move towards a knowledge-based society 301.4 Provide decent healthcare and affordable housing schemes 33

Healthcare 33Housing 35Case Study : Lagos Eko Atlantic a Leapfrog Approach to Housing Issues. 36

2. INCLUSIVE GROWTH: CREATING AND SHARING AFRICAN WEALTH 382.1 How do we define wealth? 392.2 Prioritising entrepreneurship to create jobs 422.3 Foster Cluster Strategy to encourage expansion of local industries 452.4 Promote Regional Corporate Champions 48 How to ensure a sustainable expansion for Regional Champions? 50 What role can the champions play in helping the continent leapfrog? 51 The responsibilities and obligations of private sector in ensuring successful inclusive growth. 522.5 Accelerate and consolidate regional integration 54 Why fast track the Regional Integration? 54 What are the issues hampering Regional Integration? 54 How can those challenges be addressed? 54 How EAC is driving the agenda on transport corridors: leapfrog approach based on flagship projects 55

3. UPGRADING AFRICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE 56 3.1 Powering Africa 59 3.2 Leverage on the expansion of telecommunications sector 64 3.3 Transport and water Infrastructure 66 Priority focus on regional transport corridors 66 What are the key success factors? 67 Support and implement the Africa Water Vision 2025 proposed by African Union, AfDB and UNECA 68 3.4 Provide an enabling banking infrastructure and lead the mobile banking revolution globally 70 LEASING + FUNDING SME’S 70 Enhance a framework for leasing finance 71

4. A GROWTH ENABLING ENVIRONMENT 72 4.1 A stable macroeconomic environment 73 4.2 Address the governance issues 73 The “ACTIOM” principle 75 4.3 Improve the investment climate 77 4.4 Africa : from food security to global food basket 80 Let’s start eating cassava bread 83 Develop an Integrated Agribusiness Development Policy 83 4.5 Keep Africa green 85

5. KEY SUCCESS FACTORS 86 5.1 Social contract between government, private sector and civil society 87 5.2 Committed and visionary leadership 89 5.3 Involve women, youth, Diaspora and technology 89 Mobilising the youth 90 URGENTLY ADDRESS YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT! 92 Mobilising women 95 Mobilising the Diaspora 96 5.4 Addressing the execution challenges: Kenya Vision 2030 case study 99 5.5 Finding the money to power the Vision 5.5.1 Stop the leak by reducing the illegal outflows of funds and increasing government revenues 104 5.5.2 Promote public-private partnerships and diversify international bilateral partners 111 5.5.3 Leverage on the Diaspora by issuing Diaspora Bonds 113  5.5.4 Source financing through international capital markets 114 5.5.5 Use Private Placement Programs 115 5.5.6 Lack of money should not be an excuse 118 5.6 Passion and dedication will help drive the process - it’s up to us! 119

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• Change the mindets/ Rebranding Africa.• Building and retaining Human capital.• Move towards a knowledge based

society• Provide decent healthcare

and affordable housing schemes.

• Promote entrepreneurship to create jobs

• Foster cluster strategy to encourage expansion of local industries

• Promote Regional Champions

• Accelerate and consolidate regional integration

• Powering Africa• Leverage on expansion

of telecommunications sectors

• Provide an enabling banking infrastructure and lead the mobile banking revolution globally

• Transport and water Infrastructure

• A stable macro-economic environment

• Improve the investment climate

• Address the governance issues

• Secure food for the people

• Keep Africa green

Uplifting Africans

Upgrading Africa’s

Infrastructure

Inclusive growth

Enabling environment

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of Africa.

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1. Uplifting Africans

P u t the people

first. Over the last century, the biggest mistake

of Africans was to believe that their wealth was beneath their feet in form of mineral

resources etc. On the contrary, Africa’s greatest wealth is actually its people. Between 2035 and 2050, Africa’s

population is expected to reach 2 billion people, out of which 60% is expected to be below the age of 25. No other continent in

human history has ever been geared up with such a fantastic force in terms of human capital. On the other hand, this unique opportunity poses a formidable challenge: it thus becomes imperative to devise a robust plan to integrate this emerging workforce and provide all the necessary resources to optimize its potential. First and foremost, Africa’s main challenge is to uplift Africans mentally and physically. Mentally refers to fostering a dynamic generation of Africans that take ownership of their own destiny and contribute to improving their living without waiting for a providential leader/government to solve their problems. It is the people who drive and implement the Vision. Indeed what is a General without an Army?

Five critical action points are necessary to uplift Africans:• Re-branding Africa: Change the mindsets: Believe in yourself, Believe

in your nation’s potential, Believe in Africa.• Capacity Building& Retention: Build and keep an educated, skilled,

rewarded workforce that will drive the take off. • Knowledge Based Society: Seek Knowledge, Apply Knowledge,

Enhance Knowledge, Disseminate Knowledge. • Decent Healthcare: Should our human resources be our best asset,

let’s not lose it or waste it.• Improved Housing conditions: Build a healthy sanitary environment

for a higher standard of living and a more productive workforce.

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1.2 Build and Retain Human CapitalWhen South Africa bid for the 2010 World Cup, there was doubt internationally that it had the capability to pull it off. It was indeed the first World Cup ever organized on the African Continent. To the dismay of many, it turned out to be one of the best organized and most profitable World Cup in the history of football. How come? First, South Africa had a whole Continent behind it and the country’s population fully mobilized for its success. Secondly, (and this should not be forgotten) it developed the adequate internal capacity and skills to enable it achieve the mission. Appropriate capacity building entails the development and strengthening of education and decision-making skills required for sustainable economic development. Greater attention should be given to both the supply and demand sides of the capacity development equation, namely education expansion and absorptive capacity of the economy (i.e. employment creation). The model adopted must combine an asset focus (identification of human assets and strengths of the nation) with a relationship and network focus (building and

leveraging knowledge, know-how networks and alliances). This is only viable through the communities, local empowerment, and inclusion of all. In Mozambique, recent sector wide strategies on roads, health, and public financial management have paid increased attention to capacity constraints and coordination of donor support. As a result, Mozambique is beginning to bring the needed coherence to its public sector capacity building efforts through recent implementation of its public sector reform program that addresses both cross-sector and sector capacity constraints. In Malawi, the roads sector has shown substantial and sustainable improvements due to strong stakeholder pressure, and solid diagnosis of capacity constraints, and effective use of both technical assistance and training.

Some immediate action would need to be taken such as:

• Ensuring that government plays a facilitating role by setting up an enabling framework and policies that facilitate the reinforcement of capacities across the spectrum.

• Greater focus on higher education: Higher education is itself a strong catalyst for accelerated growth in a highly competitive

global environment where skills make the difference.

• A training Curricula adapted to market demands and reinforcement of capacity in priority sectors (for instance make corporate/NGO/Government internship as pre-requisite for all tertiary and technical education diploma).

• Build Capacity in government and at the decision making level in general (train the local, national, regional leaders). Stronger bridges and skills transfer between public and private sector.

• Leapfrog by leveraging on technology through e-learning and distance learning.

Other medium term solutions would involve implementing a capacity building framework based on a community problem-solving approach. This would involve a combined approach based on systematic skills searching dissemination approach..

• Focus on identifying skills and strengths available within communities (business, social, geographic etc.)

• Upgrade skills by enhancing relationships and networks for knowledge cross-fertilization within communities,

Quitters never win, Winners never quit, so keep on moving - Oduigwe Okala

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• Launch initiatives locally and regionally• Community empowerment and local

leadership• Inclusive knowledge and know-how

dissemination process through rewards mechanism and recognition

• Sustainability supported by a culture of innovation

Assuming we have built and leveraged all these skills, how do we keep them? How does Africa reverse the brain drain that has plagued the continent for over half a century? By providing citizens with decent healthcare, housing, infrastructure within a stable and prosperous environment.

ANANSE NTONTAN “Spider’s web”Symbol of wisdom, creativity and the

complexities of lifeAnanse, the spider, is a well-known character in African folktales.

Capacity Building: case study.

Reinforcing Capacity at Government level is of paramount importance. This can be addressed by creating stronger systematic bridges between private sector and public sector. In the late 90’s in Cote d’Ivoire the BNEDT (government arm focused on large national infrastructure projects, led at the time by Tidiane Thiam) set up a program with private sector companies in country and multinationals abroad to mobilize young talented highly skilled Ivoirians in the country and the diaspora to join the BNEDT for 2-3 years before returning to their previous private sector employer. In a few years following the implementation of such scheme, the BNEDT put on track more infrastructure projects than in the previous 20 years. This is what we call leapfrog!

In order to attract skills and build the necessary internal capacity to deliver on the Vision, African governments could set up secondment programs with private sector firms and work on salary differentials, based on a tax deductibility program, to ensure consistency of remuneration for seconded staff.

Addressing the Human Capital Challenge

Source World Bank, 2010 Source World Bank, 2008

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About the Africa 2.0 ManifestoOur Agenda for Africa

During the 2nd Annual Africa 2.0 Leadership Symposium (14th-17th June 2011), the outline and strategic aspects of the Manifest were discussed and constructed.

The final document reflects the active contributions and thoughts of more than 200 young emerging leaders from 38 nationalities across the continent.

In order to prepare the Manifesto, Africa 2.0 mobilized a Coalition of the Willing. A group that faces Africa’s problems head on with pragmatism, knowledge, and moral purpose, one that builds a critical mass and works as a Team towards one common

goal supported by Vision Africa => An Agenda and a Roadmap for Africa!

The Vision Africa 2.0 Manifesto aims at becoming the reference guide book of our generation and a common base for our joint continental effort to build a better

Africa for all. The Manifesto gathers insights on best practices,lessons learned, key development priorities,

role of civil society, private sector & Governmentengagement, supported by Pan-African coordination,

knowledge sharing to addressexecution challenges.

“To establish a prosperous and inspiring Africa within the next 20 years”

OUR VISION, YOUR MISSION: