This Strategic Plan covers the period 2021-2025. Anchored in the mandate of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (the Committee),  this Strategic Plan is intended to achieve three main internal and external  goals:

Internally,

• Deliberately focus the work of the Committee,
• Lay the foundation of a strong, internationally renowned,  and independent Committee;
• Maximise the Committee’s contribution to creating an Africa fit for children and where children’s rights are enjoyed by all children, everywhere and every day.

Externally,

• The Strategic Plan will provide a guiding framework for partners of the Committee as to  areas of priorities for funding and support;
• Serve as a common basis for assessing result-based performance of the Committee,
• Facilitate collective, coherent, comprehensive and complementary engagement between the Committee and other peer institutions, the AUC and State Parties.

The strategic planning process was informed and influenced by:

• The experience of the Committee over the past strategic period of 2015-2019;
• The findings and recommendations of the evaluation of the mandate, procedures, functions and systems of the Committee,
• A scan of the working environment of the Committee was undertaken;
• An analysis of the Committee’s strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats were undertaken to determine strategic responses.