Every day, I find myself wondering how ambitious plans like Agenda 2063 would become real for women and girls because it is much harder to build institutions that deliver them. How does it move from a beautifully written framework into something that changes the life of a woman in Kano, a farmer in Benue, or a young girl growing up in Bayelsa? Like the Sustainable Development Goals before it, Agenda 2063 is one of those ambitious continental blueprints that promise to transform Africa. Every few years, we celebrate milestones, publish progress reports, and count down to another deadline. But I often find myself asking a different question: as these deadlines get closer, are we actually getting closer to the outcomes?
That question became even more interesting when I looked at the African Union’s aspirations for gender equality.
What surprised me was that the problem is not the absence of a
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