Population Dynamics and Demographic Dividend
Population issues are central to most of Africa’s challenges and therefore, population dynamics is a major cross-cutting factor in achieving majority of the SDGs.
Similarly, in the Demographic Dividend framework, achieving a population age-structure which has more economically productive people relative to dependents is a necessary pre-condition for harnessing the demographic dividend.
Our work on population dynamics focuses on the drivers of rapid population growth, especially high fertility, the status of women, unmet need for contraception, youth demographics, early childbearing and migration.
Our work has stimulated unprecedented interest to address population and development issues across Africa:
- AFIDEP supported the office of the President of Malawi and the African Union (AU) to designate demographic dividend as the AU 2017 development theme.
- We have supported 13 African countries to develop awareness and policy options for harnessing the demographic dividend. Most of these countries are integrating it in their national development plans.
- Nine countries have integrated demographic dividend evidence and recommendations in their population policies and national development plans.
- AFIDEP work has contributed to positioning population dynamics and the demographic dividend as a key development priority for Africa for various development partners including: DFID, GIZ, NORAD, UN agencies, USAID and World Bank.
Under the strengthening evidence for action and accountability on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) for young people in Eastern and Southern Africa project, AFIDEP contributed to:
- Formulation of 2015 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) policy in Kenya, which prioritised comprehensive sexuality education and contraceptive services for all adolescents
- Formulation of the 2015 Youth Friendly Health Services (YFS) standards in Malawi
- Adoption of a new Marriage Act in Malawi that raised the legal age of marriage from 15 years (with parental consent) to 18 years
- Improvement of availability of relevant data for decision-making through the development and integration of ASRH indicators in the District Health Information Systems (DHIS) in Kenya and Malawi
Projets actuels
The Demographic Dividend project sought to support evidence generation and policy engagement to enhance government commitment to addressing population challenges and foster inclusive socioeconomic development using the demographic dividend paradigm.
This project seeks to highlight the disparities in urban contraceptive, identify existing policy gaps and demonstrate the importance of family planning to sustainable urbanisation in Malawi.
The aim of the Policy Communication Fellows Programme is to develop the next generation of leaders from the less developed world regions who will shape policy in their countries, regionally and globally. The programme is jointly hosted by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP).
Advancing our understanding of the true prevalence of traditional methods of contraception in four African countries as well as women’s motivations for using these methods.
The BUILD program (Building Capacity for Integrated Family Planning/Reproductive Health and Population, Environment and Development Action) seeks to achieve strong political commitment, sustained financial resources and accountability for voluntary family planning and reproductive health.
BUILD is a 5-year program.
The Botswana Demographic Dividend project aims to develop a Roadmap for Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MFED) to guide the implementation of the Botswana DD Study recommendations.
With support from UNFPA Malawi, AFIDEP will produce a series of position papers on the implication of Malawi’s population dynamics on critical areas of development: poverty, transformational education and skills development, private sector development and job creation, environment and governance.
Projets passés
The Exemplars in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASHER) project seeks to identify countries that have made exemplary progress in reducing adolescent fertility rates/teenage pregnancies compared to their counterparts.
The study analysed the youth demographics in the East Africa Community (EAC) region and how this bears on ongoing demographic changes on the African continent which is characterised by declining fertility, child mortality and rapid population growth.
The Strengthening Use of Research Evidence for Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (enSURE Adolescent and Youth SRH) project sought to increase the use of evidence in decision-making processes to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in Kenya.
Under the leadership of South Africa’s Department of Social Development and Stats SA, we are pleased to host a seminar series in October and November 2020, titled Demography and COVID-19 in Africa – Evidence and Policy Responses to Safeguard the Demographic Dividend. Find all the resources from the webinar series here:
Click a webinar for more information:
- WEBINAR 1 – Oct 21: The demographic impact of COVID-19: global, regional and national experiences
- WEBINAR 2 – Oct 28: An exploration of evidence-based service delivery in the times of COVID-19
- WEBINAR 3 – Nov 4: South Africa’s Social and Economic Programmes to Harness the Demographic Dividend
- WEBINAR 4 – Nov 11: The Impact of COVID-19 on the African Continent’s Prospects of Harnessing a Demographic Dividend
- WEBINAR 5 – Nov 25: WRAP UP SESSION – Series Synthesis and Policy Options
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