African Monitor (AM)
African Monitor is an independent Pan-African continental body monitoring development commitments, delivery and their impact on communities. It works towards bringing strong additional African voices to the development agenda, by making sure that citizens have the capacity, platforms and opportunity to participate in decision-making processes.
Our vision is of an African continent rapidly achieving its development potential, whose people live in dignity, in a just society where basic needs are met, human rights are upheld, and good governance is entrenched.
African Monitor's programme strategy seeks to promote a people-centred and citizen-led development agenda in Africa. AM recognises that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063 - along with sub-regional development plans - are relevant and robust global and regional development frameworks, that can accelerate development in Africa by ending extreme poverty, reducing economic exclusion and inequality, and protecting the planet.
Vision and work in relation to the Global Forum
AM programme activities are contributing to effectively implementing people-centred and sustainable development by leveraging the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 as instruments for effective delivery in Africa.
AM is adding value by harnessing strengths developed and lessons learnt from 16 years of practice in Sub-Saharan Africa in four areas:
- Initiating and activating citizen engagement that galvanises political commitment and influences policy for a people-centred, just and sustainable development
- providing platforms for dialogue to develop a shared understanding and common cause among stakeholders on delivering development results and SDGs transformations
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catalysing delivery on SDGs through the institutionalisation of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships and social compacting in Africa (supporting South Africa's National development stakeholder forum)
- enhancing States' accountability on SDGs through effective citizen participation in voluntary national reviews.
Bringing together voices from different sections of society
African Monitor initiated a Multi-Stakeholder Partnership that promotes engagement with business, the workforce, and government on SDG implementation. In addition, through the Open SDG Club South Africa (adapted from the Open SDGs Club Germany) there is representation from the provinces and sectoral coalitions resulting in active engagement with the South African government on the the 2030 Agenda and its implementation in the country.
The group's purpose is to mobilise South African civil society around effective SDG implementation, ensuring that those most in need are prioritised in the mainstreaming of goals in the country's national, provincial, and local government strategic plans.
In all our work we leverage technology, harness citizen agency in new and innovative ways, and work through collaboration and partnership.
