Beyond the African Union’s soon-ending Second Decade of Education for Africa, education and training continues to resonate with the continental body’s 50-year “Agenda 2063” strategy, placing a premium on human capacity development and youth empowerment. This brief explores ECOWAS progress in achieving the goals of the Second Decade, which stretches from 2006 to 2015, to help answer the “what next” question in the post-2015 development agenda.