Africa Sustainable Development Report - UNDP in Africa

2017

Africa Sustainable Development Report: Tracking Progress on Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals

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Table of Contents Lists of boxes, figures & tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Chapter 1 Introduction: scope, methodology and statistics in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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1.1 Scope and methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 About the report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 Statistics in Africa: key issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3.1 Overview of data issues in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3.2 Situation of data and statistics in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.4 Statistics for progress reporting on the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 . . . . . 7 1.4.1 Indicators for the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063: Africa’s contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.4.2 Data availability and opportunities for reporting on Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.4.3 Africa’s contributions to informing the global database of Sustainable Development Goal indicators on Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.4.4 Advocacy for action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Chapter 2 Sustainable Development Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.2 Targets and alignment with Agenda 2063 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.3 Progress in poverty reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 3 Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero hunger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3.2 Targets and alignment with Agenda 2063 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3.3 Progress and trends regarding the targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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2.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Chapter 4 Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good health and well-being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 4.2 Targets and alignment with Agenda 2063 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 4.3 Current status in Africa and the progress made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 4.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Chapter 5 Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 5.2 Targets and alignment with Agenda 2063. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 5.3 Synergies between the 2030 Agenda, Agenda 2063 and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 5.4 Current status and progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 5.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Chapter 6 Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 6.2 Targets and alignment with Agenda 2063 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 6.3 Data availability, current status in Africa and the progress made . . . . . . . . . 85 6.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Chapter 7 Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life below water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 7.2 Targets and alignment with Agenda 2063 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 7.3 Data availability, current status in Africa and the progress made . . . . . . . . . 99 7.4 Implications for small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 7.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Chapter 8 Conclusion and recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 8.1 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 8.2 Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

List of boxes, figures & tables List of boxes Box 2.1

Global poverty: overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Global hunger: most recent overview

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Box 3.2 El Niño effects threaten Africa’s food security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Box 4.1

Global health status: most recent overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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Key facts in industry, innovation and infrastructure globally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Box 6.2

Promotion of renewable energy in Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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Key facts about life below water for Africa

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Box 7.2 Small island developing States environmental issues: lessons from Seychelles . . 103

List of figures Figure 1.1

Milestones in the development of statistics in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Figure 2.1 Subregional trends in GDP growth and Annual GDP growth by Region, 2010–2015 . 16 Figure 2.2

GDP growth rates, 2005-2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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Proportion of people living below $1.90/day, 2002-2013

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Changes in poverty rates, 2002-2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Proportion of working population living under $1.90 per day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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Vulnerable employment per region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Figure 2.7

Proportion of workers living below the poverty line by age

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Gender distribution of the total working poor by region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Figure 2.9

Proportion of employed population below the poverty line by sex . . . . . . . . . . 23

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Figure 2.10 Proportion of unemployed receiving unemployment benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Figure 3.1 Estimated prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the adult population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Figure 3.2

Children under 5 years of age with WHZ