Africa Regional Report: Main Findings and Recommendations

1. Africa Regional Report: Main Findings and Recommendations Hassan Musa Yousif UNECA

2. Outlines Objectives of the Operational Review Technical Totals and Analyses Overview of the Main Findings Recommendations and Priorities for the Future

3. Objectives of the Operational Review Renew political commitment Document the achievements and the factors that facilitated or hampered progress Identify the gaps, unfinished agenda, and emerging issues Identify priorities for the future (ICPD Beyond 2014

4. Technical Tools and Analyses Global Survey Institutional structures (policies, programs, strategies and institutional entities) ICPD actions and priorities, and how they have been addressed at the national level through budgetary allocations and concrete implementation measures Assessment and research to inform policies, programs and to support decisions on resource allocation Partnership with CSOs and NGOs, and international cooperation 52 countries participated in the survey

5. Technical Tools and Analyses Country Reports (Optional) Ascertain Ownership and commitment to the PoA Align the PoAwith national development priorities Link the PoAto the MDGs and to the post 2015 DA Analyze the achievements and documentation best practices Analyze the facilitating factors, and the challenges and constraints Provide recommendations for the ICPD agenda beyond 2014 (27 countries)

6. Technical Tools and Analyses Fundamental Questions for Analyses How did the countries address ICPD priorities and issues during the last 5 years? What are the achievements, gaps and unfinished agenda? What are the facilitating factors? And what are the barriers and constraints? What is the level of implementation? What is the extent of using research to inform policies, programs and budgetary allocation? What is the role of partnership and cooperation in implementing the ICPD PoA? What are the priorities for the future?

7. Technical Tools and Analyses Reports

8. Overview of the Main Findings

9. 1. RR and rH, health, morbidity and mortality

10. 2. Gender Equality, Equity and Empowerment of Women

11. 3. Population, Sustained Economic Growth and Sustainable Development

12. 4. Population, Development and Education

13. 5. Family, wellbeing of individuals and society

14. 6. urbanization and internal migration

15. 7. Adolescents and Youth

16. 8. OLDER PERSONS

17. 9. persons with disabilities

18. 10 . indigenous people

19. 11. international migration and development

21. Important recommendations and priorities for the future • Sustain the achievements • Take action on time - Delaying implementation will incur high social and economic costs • Target gaps in the implementation of the ICPD agenda • Promote coordination and cooperation among sector ministries

22. Important recommendations and priorities for the future • Harmonize population policy with sectoral policies in areas such as education and health; • Promote partnerships with CSOs, private sector, youth organizations, and with the social networks and diaspora; • Address cultural and behavioral factors that constrain the implementation of PoA,

23. Important recommendations and priorities for the future • Adequately staff and fund national and regional population programs • Address shortage of skills and capacities in population and development, and in the use of demographic techniques and methods; and • Address paucity of data analyses and research, and promote registration of births and deaths, • Register and provide IDs for older persons and persons with disabilities.

24. Thank You