Interactive Session: Aligning CATS with Regional Plans

Part 1: Shared Reality Check – Understanding Today to Shape Tomorrow

A structured reflection on Africa’s current ATM landscape: challenges, strengths, and strategic gaps.
This interactive session will begin with a Shared Reality Check—a structured reflection among participants to identify current challenges, strengths, strategic gaps, and key enablers for Africa’s ATM transformation. This will ensure a grounded understanding of where we stand today, including:

• Operational constraints and infrastructure gaps;
• Workforce and training limitations;
• Political and institutional complexities;
• Fragmentation of regional plans and initiatives;
• Successful examples of local innovation or collaboration.

Participants will be invited to share short insights from their organisations or States, helping to create a collective picture of Africa’s ATM landscape today. This will serve as a strategic baseline for the session.

Part 2: Aligning CATS with Regional Plans – Turning Vision into Action

Building on the reality check and the earlier leadership dialogue, participants will then step into the driver’s seat of regional alignment. Together, we will explore how to translate the CATS CONOPS and Vision 2045 into concrete action for Africa—while ensuring full coherence with ICAO strategies and existing AFI initiatives (e.g. AFI Plan, SECFAL Plan, ASBU implementation).

Expected Outcomes:
• A shared understanding of how CANSO’s CATS work can complement and enhance African regional efforts.
• A list of practical next steps and strategic focus areas for regional alignment.
• Clear input on whether and how to develop an Africa-specific roadmap under the CATS umbrella.
• Stronger cross-stakeholder collaboration and a sense of co-ownership in shaping Africa’s airspace transformation.

This session is designed not only to connect documents—but to connect people, priorities, and purpose.