# Towards the Development of Agenda 2063 Geo-Portal to Support Sustainable Development in Africa
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The successful implementation of the African Union's Agenda 2063 strategic development blueprint is critical for the attainment of economic development, social prosperity, political stability, protection, and regional integration in Africa. Agenda 2063 is a strategic and endogenous development plan that seeks to strategically and competitively reposition the African continent to ensure poverty eradication and equitable people-centric socio-economic and technological transformation. Its impact areas include wealth creation, shared prosperity, sustainable environment, and transformative capacities. Monitoring and evaluation systems play a critical role in collecting, recording, storing, integrating, and evaluating and tracking performance information in the implementation of longer-term strategic plans. The usage of the geographic information system (GIS) as a monitoring and evaluation tool has gained traction in the last few decades due to its ability to support the collection, integration, storage, analysis, output, and distribution of location-based data. The advent of web-based GIS provides a powerful online platform to collect, integrate, discover, use and share geospatial data, information, and services related to sustainable development. In this paper, we aim to describe the implementation, architectural structural design, and the functionality of the pilot Agenda 2063 geoportal. The live prototype internet-based geoportal is intended to facilitate data collection, management, integration, analysis, and visualization of Agenda 2063 development indicators. This geoportal is meant to support the planning, implementation, and monitoring of the Agenda 2063 goals at the continental, regional, and national levels. As our results show, we successfully demonstrated that a web-geoportal is a powerful interactive platform to upload, access, explore, visualize, analyse, and disseminate geospatial data related to the sustainable development of the African continent. Although in the pilot phase, the geoportal demonstrates the primary functionality of geoportals in terms of its capability to discover, analyse, share, and download geospatial datasets. s 2019 2019 10.399 2019 10.399 10.  
the aspirations endeavour to spell out Africa's vision regarding inclusive growth and sustainable development, continental integration and Pan-Africanism, good governance and democracy, peace and security, cultural identity and heritage, people-driven development, and the need to be a competitive and strong global player and partner [4; 5; 6]. Some of the strategic impact areas identified in the Agenda 2063 implementation plan include wealth creation, shared prosperity, sustainable environment, and transformative capacities [7]. Some of the indicators for wealth creation are access to electricity (% of the population), access to clean water, annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, and industrial development index in Africa. The indicators for sustainable environment include the annual change in forest area (%), the sustainable nitrogen management index, terrestrial sites of biodiversity importance that are completely protected, and freshwater withdrawal as a % of total renewable water resources [6; 7]. With a population of approximately 1.225 billion that is highly diverse from 54 countries, Africa is considered to possess the second biggest population in the world. Africa's population is estimated to be growing by at least 2.6% per annum and is estimated to reach 2.5 billion by 2050 [8]. Since 1995, Africa has experienced considerable economic development; in fact, it is the second-fastest developing area in the world. Africa's economic performance is partially attributable to its huge landmass and ocean territory that hosts rich natural resources such as minerals, oil, natural gas, timber, and extensive swaths of rich agricultural lands.