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The document provides administrative and licensing details for the EAC Development Futures research, noting that all visualizations, data, and text produced by African Futures are open access under the Creative Commons BY license. It also describes the African Futures & Innovation (AFI) program's goal to use scenarios and forecasting to address the gap in wellbeing indices between Africa and the rest of the world.

The AfCFTA's Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade (PWYT), released in February 2024, aims to promote the socio-economic development of women and youth by providing affirmative action in capacity building, market intelligence, and trade credit. However, the document identifies a significant gap in the protocol's ability to support informal micro-enterprises, which constitute a large portion of women-led trade in Africa. It recommends the implementation of a four-tiered system of cross-subsidisation based on enterprise size and scope, the creation of a continental Simplified Trade Regime (STR), and the transition from volatile official development assistance (ODA) to sustainable funding derived from common external tariffs or domestic sales taxes.