Integrated planning provides the means to choose a future trajectory that is not a repetition of the past. The Guide for Integrated Planning in Africa aims to help countries recover and build resilience through integrated development planning, leveraging on the SDGs, Africa’s Agenda 2063 and the NDCs. As such, it intends to facilitate recovery pathways crafted by national governments, based on their own priorities. Integrated planning provides the means to choose a future trajectory that is not a repetition of the past.

UNDP partnered with the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA–NEPAD) to bring into Africa’s development space valuable knowledge and tools that can support and inform policy and investment choices being made in national and regional systems in the pursuit of solid pathways towards resilient and inclusive growth at sub-national, national, and regional levels.