At the same time, African governments need to consider and weigh a wide range of policy recommendations and priorities that come from multiple sources -the governments themselves, the international community and African regional organizations. Taken as a whole, African governments must address the challenge of reconciling multiple policy and programme prescriptions and courses of action at the national level. This organizational framework is in line with the argument that accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment simultaneously represents a practical operational approach for African governments to tackle the challenge of achieving the SDGs as well as move forward on the AU’s Agenda 2063. To the extent that gender inequalities are being addressed, then, in effect, progress is being made across the wide spectrum of development goals found in the SDGs.