Implementation of the new urban agenda gains momentum in the African region
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Africa’s urban transition is of an unprecedented scale and magnitude with profound implications for inclusive and sustainable growth, an Urban Breakfast held in Addis Ababa concluded. Organized jointly by the United Nations Economic Commission for African (ECA) and the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), the event reflected on the African implementation of the New Urban Agenda. Emerging from the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), the New Urban Agenda defines the global framework for urban development for the next 20 years. The deliberations recapped the centrality of urbanization to sustainable development clearly as recognized by world leaders in SDG 11 on cities and human settlements. In the African context, the wave of urbanization sweeping across the continent was considered to have profound implications for the region’s structural transformation agenda.