• • • • entrepreneurship of especially youth and women, and closing the skills gap across the continent; Build and expand an African knowledge society through transformation and investments in universities, science, technology, research and innovation; and through the harmonization of education standards and mutual recognition of academic and professional qualifications; Establish an African Accreditation Agency to develop and monitor educational quality standards, with a view to expanding student and academic mobility across the continent; Strengthen the Pan African University, build the Pan African Virtual University, and elevate Africa’s role in global research, technology development and transfer, innovation and knowledge production; and Harness universities and their networks and other options to enable high quality university education. d. Transform, grow and industrialise our economies through beneficiation and value addition of natural resources: • Implementing the African Industrial Development Action Plan, the African Mining Vision at country, regional and continental level, in particular fasttracking the establishment of the Centre for African Mineral Development; • Implementing joint cross-border investments to exploit shared natural resources; • Promoting social dialogue, sectoral and productivity plans and regional and commodity value chains to support the implementation of industrial policies at all levels, with focus on SMMEs and Agribusinesses; • Establishing Commodity Exchanges for strategic African products; • Developing strategies to grow the African Blue/ocean and green economies; • Developing the African private sector through engagement and a conducive climate, fostering Pan-African businesses through the growth of regional manufacturing hubs and scaled up intra-Africa trade; • Enhancing the Productivity Agenda for Africa, as an essential engine for industrialization, progressively enhancing the competitiveness of the continent in the global economy; and • Promoting macro-economic policies that facilitate growth, employment creation, investments and industrialisation. e. Consolidate the modernisation of African agriculture and agro-businesses, through scaled up value addition and productivity, and by 2063: 15