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