"agenda-driven": single-word synonyms and a good definition

Solution 1:

It just means that the entity under discussion (a cat, or an Asia-Pacific trade working group)

1. has some agenda that is, something it wants or intends to achieve
2. is "driven" by that agenda so it is going to try to get or achieve this thing it wants, rather than being focused on pleasing others or other external motivations.

The meaning of agenda you want is the second listed by Merriam-Webster

an underlying often ideological plan or program

although probably not in the ideological sense, for cats.

Solution 2:

Here's something I found in Google books that might help -

(An APEC Trade Agenda?: The Political Economy of a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific)

Implementing this will definitely require further reforms. The reforms will be guided by this agenda. This is "agenda-driven" reform at work. APEC's mode of operation should be task-oriented. Working Groups, for instance, must have a clear sunset clause.

A Hanoi Action Plan that is concise and focused can guide this process. This can complement the Busan Roadmap, together they can produce a more balanced agenda for APEC.

Beyond the reform, it may well be that after all, APEC itself should be an"agenda-driven" process. For some time to come, it cannot be a process that is driven by leaders or by institutions. But leadership is still important for the process. This underlines the notion of "issue-specific" (or agenda-driven) leadership that should characterize APEC.

So "agenda-driven" could mean "issue-specific", as in working towards (resolving) a specific issue.

Solution 3:

Though a non-English speaker, to me agenda driven means someone is bent on proving his idea no matter what it takes. He disregards objectivity and is not willing to determine the truth but only to think up whatever proofs he could that would make his idea look right and justified. The examples were Southern slave owners who claimed that their enslavement of Africans is justified by words in Genesis 9:20-27 in spite the fact that these words give no ground for such interpretations as majority of Christian theologians have pointed out. So, agenda driven people are those who are obsessed with their own invented ideology or ideas and are stubborn to find anything that can justify their ideas without being able to be unbiased, impartial, to perceive the truth and to realize that their ideas are wrong.