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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
400 million in 2015 – equivalent to 46%
of Africa’s population
• 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
• In 2030 the sub-saharan cities will host
over 50% of the population and absorb
87% of the
poulation
growth.
• In 2001, 166 million people – 72% of Africa’s
urban population – lived in slums
• With no effective pro-poor policies, urban slum populations will double every 15 years
• Millennium Development Goals
Target 11 Guidelines
• Slum Upgrading Policies
• Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF)
• Cities Without Slums (CWS)
• Regional Urban Sector Profile
Study (RUSPS)
• 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
• Water for African Cities
Programme
• Lake Victoria Initiative
• Collaboration with
African Development Bank and EU water facility
• 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.
• UN-HABITAT and Shelter for
Orphans
• Urban Management
Programme (UMP) –
HIV/AIDS through participatory
planning
• Africa hosts 30% of the world’s
refugees
• Disaster Management Programme
• Safer Cities Programme
• On going projects implemented in over 10
countries
• UN-HABITAT member of ECHA of the
United Nations
• 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
THANK YOU