The New Urban Agenda and Demographic Dividend: Investment for Africa’s Youth
Africa, Office of the Special Adviser on | January 2019
Abstract
This report summarizes Africa’s rapid and idiosyncratic urbanization and the challenges and opportunities such kinetic growth present to implementing the NUA, realizing Sustainable Development Goal 11 on sustainable cities and communities, and fulfilling Agenda 2063’s Aspiration 6 on empowered and engaged youth. It further highlights policy intervention areas that would harness the forces of urbanization to capitalize on Africa’s demographic dividend and advance sustainable development.
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Africa, Office of the Special Adviser on. 2019. The New Urban Agenda and Demographic Dividend: Investment for Africa’s Youth. © Brookings India. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9978.Keywords
Asian Development Bank
Development
Sustainable Development
Urban Area
Urban Areas
Urban Population
Urbanization
Urban Services
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