{"id":29181,"date":"2017-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afidep.org\/critical-conversations-africas-development-afidep-releases-vantage-point-video-series\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:00:00","slug":"critical-conversations-africas-development-afidep-releases-vantage-point-video-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afidep.org\/fr\/critical-conversations-africas-development-afidep-releases-vantage-point-video-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Conversations on Africa&rsquo;s Development: AFIDEP Releases Vantage Point Video Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to introduce <strong><em>Vantage Point<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0a\u00a0video series that shares critical conversations on urgent development issues in Africa. The series provides in-depth, analytical, contextual &#038; evidence-informed discussions on tackling Africa&rsquo;s urgent development issues by experts, government officials, and the people who experience these issues.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/afidep\/?p=7198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0edition<\/a>\u00a0of <strong><em>Vantage Point<\/em><\/strong>, experts from AFIDEP and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Southampton<\/a> discuss the <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/afidep\/?page_id=3273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demographic dividend<\/a>, or how African countries can take advantage of their youthful populations to accelerate economic growth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Demographic Dividend - A Discussion\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8sBD7JCC-k0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/afidep\/?page_id=3273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demographic dividend<\/a> has received tremendous attention by African leaders in the recent past as an important framework that could spur socio-economic development on the continent. The <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/afidep\/?page_id=3273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demographic dividend<\/a> refers to the accelerated economic growth that is initiated by a rapid decline in fertility and mortality that results in a change in the age structure from one dominated by child dependents to one dominated by economically productive working adults.<\/p>\n<p>In January this year, for example, the theme for the 2017 African Union Summit, \u00ab\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.au.int\/web\/en\/slides\/20170330\/2017-theme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investments in the Youth<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb was launched, signifying a positive ideological move towards the uptake of the framework at the regional level. This was important especially since the Summit convenes decision-makers, development partners, the civil society and the media. The adoption of the framework for the Summit therefore offers a great opportunity to strengthen advocacy among African Heads of States to make critical policy reforms and investments that will enable them to use their youthful populations to accelerate economic growth and improve the lives of their citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to introduce Vantage Point,\u00a0a\u00a0video series that shares critical conversations on urgent development issues in Africa. The series provides in-depth, analytical, contextual &#038; evidence-informed discussions on tackling Africa&rsquo;s urgent development issues by experts, government officials, and the people who experience these issues. In the 1st\u00a0edition\u00a0of Vantage Point, experts from AFIDEP and the\u00a0University of Southampton discuss the demographic dividend, or how African countries can take advantage of their youthful populations to accelerate economic growth. The demographic dividend has received tremendous attention by African leaders in the recent past as an important framework that could spur socio-economic development on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25124,"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":[2413],"tags":[3259,2450,2451,2415,2453,3265,3232,2439,3266,2513,2420,2568,2637,2516,2467,2417,2421,2690,2703],"programme":[3006],"country":[],"cop26":[],"class_list":["post-29181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-fr","tag-adolescents-fr","tag-afidep-fr","tag-africa-fr","tag-demographic-dividend-fr","tag-development-fr","tag-economy-fr","tag-education-fr","tag-evidence-fr","tag-evidence-informed-fr","tag-evidence-use-fr","tag-family-planning-fr","tag-health-fr","tag-kenya-fr","tag-malawi-fr","tag-policymaking-fr","tag-project-demographic-dividend-fr","tag-research-fr","tag-sexual-and-reproductive-health-fr","tag-youth-fr","programme-institutional-update-fr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Critical Conversations on Africa&#039;s Development: AFIDEP Releases Vantage Point Video Series - 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\/critical-conversations-africas-development-afidep-releases-vantage-point-video-series\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Critical Conversations on Africa&#039;s Development: AFIDEP Releases Vantage Point Video Series - African Institute for Development Policy - AFIDEP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are excited to introduce Vantage Point,\u00a0a\u00a0video series that shares critical conversations on urgent development issues in Africa. 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