urbanization challenges in sub-saharan africa. african cities are gowing fast: urbanization rates...
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URBANIZATION CHALLENGES IN
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
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• African cities are gowing fast:
urbanization rates exceed 4 - 5% per annum
• Slums absorb about ¾ of the
population growth
• The number of poor is expected to reach
400 million in 2015 – equivalent to 46%
of Africa’s population
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• Increasing inequalities
in income distribution
and slow economic
growth increased the
proportion of people living
with less than $2 per day:
from 90 million in 1960s
to 233 million in the late 1990s
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• In 2030 the sub-saharan cities will host
over 50% of the population and absorb
87% of the
poulation
growth.
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• In 2001, 166 million people – 72% of Africa’s
urban population – lived in slums
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• With no effective pro-poor policies, urban slum populations will double every 15 years
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• Millennium Development Goals
Target 11 Guidelines
• Slum Upgrading Policies
• Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF)
• Cities Without Slums (CWS)
• Regional Urban Sector Profile
Study (RUSPS)
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• In Africa 50% of the
urban population do not
have adequate water
supply
• 60% lack adequate sanitation
• Poor households pay 10 to 100 times as
much as the rich for water
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• Water for African Cities
Programme
• Lake Victoria Initiative
• Collaboration with
African Development Bank and EU water facility
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• Africa is home to an esimated 29.4 million
people infected with HIV/AIDS.
• GNP can shrink by up to 40% within 20
years because of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
• Life expectancy is expected to fall by 30
years in some
countries.
• Slum dwellers are
more exposed to
the HIV risk.
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• UN-HABITAT and Shelter for
Orphans
• Urban Management
Programme (UMP) –
HIV/AIDS through participatory
planning
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• Africa hosts 30% of the world’s
refugees
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• Disaster Management Programme
• Safer Cities Programme
• On going projects implemented in over 10
countries
• UN-HABITAT member of ECHA of the
United Nations
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• Visibility and sensitization of the urbanization challenges in Africa
• Finalize the Regional Urban Sector Profile Study Programme and provide countries with baselines for urban interventions
• Support EC to publish the urban sector guidelines
• Agree on the modalities to support governance of the urban sector in Africa
• Take the outcome of this workshop to AMCHUD and to next GC of CSD 13 in NY
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