{"id":21469,"date":"2019-12-20T15:41:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T12:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afidep.org\/why-population-matters-for-development-the-8th-african-population-conference\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T12:41:42","slug":"why-population-matters-for-development-the-8th-african-population-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afidep.org\/fr\/why-population-matters-for-development-the-8th-african-population-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"The 8th African Population Conference: Why population matters for development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 1000 participants who attended the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/8apc2019.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0African Population Conference<\/a>\u00a0organized by the Union for African Population Studies under the auspices of the Government of Uganda in Entebbe, Uganda on November 18-22 2019 adopted the\u00a0<em>\u201cEntebbe Declaration\u201d\u00a0<\/em>that called on African governments to mainstream population issues in their policies and development plans.<\/p>\n<p>In reading the declaration, Prof Nyovani Madise,\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-GB\">AFIDEP Director of Research and Development Policy and Head of the Malawi office,\u00a0<\/span>who chaired the conference scientific committee and is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afidep.org\/afideps-prof-nyovani-madise-new-vice-president-of-union-for-african-population-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new Vice President<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iussp.org\/en\/union-african-population-studies-uaps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Union for African Population Studies (UAPS)<\/a>, noted that \u201cAfrican governments\u2019 commitment to the AU\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/au.int\/en\/agenda2063\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agenda 2063<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/?menu=1300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN Agenda 2030<\/a>\u00a0constitutes a right step towards realising development, but commitment alone will not be enough if concrete steps are not taken to work towards the attainment of these goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the conference statement, the continent\u2019s high population growth is at 2.5 per cent per annum and is projected to reach 2.5 billion (about 26% of the world\u2019s total population) in 2050. With the majority of the current population lacking access to basic services, it could get worse, not to mention the strain on the environment and natural resources if sustainable interventions are not made to address the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Although trends have improved over the years, the number of children and mothers that continue to die from infant and maternal preventable and treatable causes is still a source of concern. For instance, \u201cIn 2018, 1 in 13 children in sub-Saharan Africa died before their fifth birthday\u2013 this is 15 times higher than the risk a child faces in Europe, where just 1 in 196 children aged less than five die,\u201d says the World Health Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Africa cannot make big leaps in development if these and other prevailing population challenges are not addressed.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Entebbe Declaration<\/em>\u00a0called on governments to ensure population issues were incorporated in long-term and medium-term plans, strengthen data collection institutions and processes such as the census and other administrative surveys, and investing in research for use as evidence in informing development priorities.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a huge opportunity for governments to harness the potential of Africa\u2019s youthful population for a demographic dividend by making the right investments in \u201cquality education, employable skill and sustainable livelihoods through entrepreneurial and job creations.\u201d<\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fafidep.org%2Ffr%2F%3Fp%3D21469&#038;text=There%20is%20also%20a%20huge%20opportunity%20for%20governments%20to%20harness%20the%20potential%20of%20Africa%E2%80%99s%20youthful%20population%20for%20a%20demographic%20dividend%20by%20making%20the%20right%20investments&#038;via=Afidep&#038;related=Afidep' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">There is also a huge opportunity for governments to harness the potential of Africa\u2019s youthful population for a demographic dividend by making the right investments <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fafidep.org%2Ffr%2F%3Fp%3D21469&#038;text=There%20is%20also%20a%20huge%20opportunity%20for%20governments%20to%20harness%20the%20potential%20of%20Africa%E2%80%99s%20youthful%20population%20for%20a%20demographic%20dividend%20by%20making%20the%20right%20investments&#038;via=Afidep&#038;related=Afidep' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n<p>Cognizant of the need for a multi-stakeholder approach, the call to action was extended to other players. The civil society organisations, the media and the private sector were urged to \u201cto play their roles in Africa\u2019s development, in programming, financing, as well as holding governments to account.\u201d The researchers challenged themselves to pursue innovative and excellent research, mentor early career researchers and play an active role in having the evidence they produce inform government policy and planning.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the 8<sup>th<\/sup> African Population Conference (APC) was\u00a0<em>Harnessing Africa\u2019s Population Dynamics for Sustainable Development: 25 Years after Cairo and Beyond<\/em>. The conference happened a week after the 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0International Conference on Population and Development\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nairobisummiticpd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(ICPD25)<\/a>\u00a0where world leaders took stock of progress governments have made since the first ICPD held in Cairo, Egypt in 1994. ICPD25 was a good precursor and provided momentum for deliberations at the 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0APC.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being part of the conference scientific committee, AFIDEP facilitated and or actively participated in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/afidep.org\/afidep-at-the-8th-african-population-conference-apc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">17 sessions<\/a>\u00a0at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>The APC is held every four years and is convened by UAPS, a body whose membership is comprised of demographers and other researchers working on population issues in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1000 participants who attended the\u00a08th\u00a0African Population Conference\u00a0organized by the Union for African Population Studies under the auspices of the Government of Uganda in Entebbe, Uganda on November 18-22 2019 adopted the\u00a0\u201cEntebbe Declaration\u201d\u00a0that called on African governments to mainstream population issues in their policies and development plans. In reading the declaration, Prof Nyovani Madise,\u00a0AFIDEP Director of Research and Development Policy and Head of the Malawi office,\u00a0who chaired the conference scientific committee and is the\u00a0new Vice President\u00a0of the\u00a0Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), noted that \u201cAfrican governments\u2019 commitment to the AU\u00a0Agenda 2063\u00a0and the\u00a0UN Agenda 2030\u00a0constitutes a right step towards realising development, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2418],"tags":[2451,2978,2979,2980,2981,2416,2982,2421,2983,2623],"programme":[3004,3002],"country":[3029,3052,3030,3031,3032,3033,3053,3062,3054,3063,3064,3046,3034,3035,3036,3055,3056,3037,3057,3038,3058,3039,3040,3059,3041,3042,3043,3065,3060,3066,3044,3067,3045,3047,3048,3061,3049,3050,3051],"cop26":[],"class_list":["post-21469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs-fr","tag-africa-fr","tag-african-population-conference-fr","tag-entebbe-fr","tag-icpd-25-fr","tag-nairobi-summit-fr","tag-population-fr","tag-population-studies-fr","tag-research-fr","tag-uaps-fr","tag-uganda-fr","programme-dividende-demographique","programme-dynamique-des-populations-et-dividende-demographique","country-angola-fr","country-benin-fr","country-botswana-fr","country-burkina-faso-fr","country-burundi-fr","country-cameroon-fr","country-cape-verde-fr","country-comoros-fr","country-cote-divoire-fr","country-djibouti-fr","country-eritrea-fr","country-eswatini-fr","country-ethiopia-fr","country-gabon-fr","country-ghana-fr","country-guinea-fr","country-guinea-bissau-fr","country-kenya-fr","country-liberia-fr","country-malawi-fr","country-mali-fr","country-mozambique-fr","country-namibia-fr","country-niger-fr","country-nigeria-fr","country-rwanda-fr","country-senegal-fr","country-seychelles-fr","country-sierra-leone-fr","country-somalia-fr","country-south-africa-fr","country-south-sudan-fr","country-sudan-fr","country-tanzania-fr","country-the-gambia-fr","country-togo-fr","country-uganda-fr","country-zambia-fr","country-zimbabwe-fr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The 8th African Population Conference: Why population matters for development - African Institute for Development Policy - AFIDEP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/afidep.org\/fr\/why-population-matters-for-development-the-8th-african-population-conference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The 8th African Population Conference: Why population matters for development - African Institute for Development Policy - AFIDEP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"About 1000 participants who attended the\u00a08th\u00a0African Population Conference\u00a0organized by the Union for African Population Studies under the auspices of the Government of Uganda in Entebbe, Uganda on November 18-22 2019 adopted the\u00a0\u201cEntebbe Declaration\u201d\u00a0that called on African governments to mainstream population issues in their policies and development plans. 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