The year 2016 will usher in the Sustainable Development Goals (The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development), a new development agenda anchored by the three dimensions of sustainable development; economic, social and environmental. Sustainable development is also at the heart of Agenda 2063, a continent-wide framework for ddevelopment as well as the Paris Agreement on climate change reached during the twenty first Conference of the Parties in December 2015. Implementation of Agenda 2030 will be supported by The Addis Ababa Action Agenda which was adopted during the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in July 2015. In effect, Agenda 2030, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the outcome of COP 21 and Agenda 2063 will drive Africa’s agenda for sustainable structural transformation for at least the next decade. The SDGs, COP 21 and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda provide the global enabling environment required for Africa’s transformation while Agenda 2063 articulates the regional framework for the realization of national strategies for inclusive transformation. Strengthening national capacities to align global and regional frameworks to national development plans will be critical for effective implementation. Despite over a decade of steady growth and a relatively long history of development planning, most African countries have not succeeded in achieving the goal of structural transformation let alone the more challenging objective of inclusive and sustainable transformation. The reasons include discontinuities and distractions in plan implementation, dysfunctional institutional architectures, weak links between resource allocation and development priorities; overdependence on external resources; and weak links between national and sub-national planning and implementation processes. But an important factor is weak institutional and individual capacities for plan design, implementation and follow-up. While the MDGs era was supported by initiatives to integrate the agenda in national development plans such efforts did not address the underlying capacity constraints in planning units. The overall objective of the project is to strengthen African policymaking capacities for the design and implementation of sustainable development programmes. An important dimension of this process is to assist countries to integrate the goals, targets and indicators of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development into their National Development Frameworks and improve their capacities for evidence-based policymaking (e.g. Capacities to analyze the likely impact of policies on economic, social and environmental sustainability).