[Afrobarometer] Development agenda setting is a key function of governments. But since the Millennium Declaration was adopted in 2000,1 national development agendas have been increasingly shaped by global and continental development policy frameworks, notably the United Nations (U.N.) Millennium Development Goals and their successor, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063. As governments seek to align their national development priorities with global and continental