Urban environmental data in African cities

1. OUTLINE
 State of Play: Brief highlight on urban
environmental data in African cities
 Experience from AEO 2016
 What needs to happen
 Institutional set-up and capacity
 Coherence and alignment with SDGs
 Using tech advances for data
collection and analysis

2. African Cities face serious environmental risks but there is limited
subnational data to inform policy and investment
Many cities will see their
urban expansion taking place
on the same watersheds used
to supply them with fresh
water. This may reduce their
water provisions. More
detailed research is required to
further analyze the resulting
socio-economic risk.
Source: Africa Economic Outlook 2016
There have been few economic
analyses of mangroves in Africa.
Yet in many places they are
threatened by infrastructure (e.g.
Ports) as well as urban expansion
taking place without taking their
services in coastal protection into
account.
We need to understand how biodiversity and
ecosystem service assets fair against
development pressures such as agriculture,
mining, infrastructure plans, and demographic
trends and urbanization