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African cities are gowing fast: urbanization rates exceed 4 - 5% per annum

URBANIZATION CHALLENGES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. 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

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African cities are gowing fast: urbanization rates exceed 4 - 5% per annum

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  1. URBANIZATION CHALLENGES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. In 2030 the sub-saharan cities will host • over 50% of the population and absorb • 87% of the • poulation • growth.

  5. In 2001, 166 million people – 72% of Africa’s • urban population – lived in slums

  6. With no effective pro-poor policies, urban slum populations will double every 15 years

  7. Millennium Development Goals • Target 11 Guidelines • Slum Upgrading Policies • Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF) • Cities Without Slums (CWS) • Regional Urban Sector Profile • Study (RUSPS)

  8. 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

  9. Water for African Cities • Programme • Lake Victoria Initiative • Collaboration with African Development Bank and EU water facility

  10. 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.

  11. UN-HABITAT and Shelter for • Orphans • Urban Management • Programme (UMP) – • HIV/AIDS through participatory • planning

  12. Africa hosts 30% of the world’s • refugees

  13. Disaster Management Programme • Safer Cities Programme • On going projects implemented in over 10 • countries • UN-HABITAT member of ECHA of the • United Nations

  14. 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

  15. THANK YOU

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