1. Continental Consultation on the Post
2015 Development Agenda
11 to 12 March 2013
Hammamet, Tunis
MAIN MESSAGES FROM
THE 2012 MDGS
REPORT
Consultation
Strategy on the
Post Development
Dossina Yeo Agenda
Statistics Division
Economic Affairs
African Union Commission
2. OUTLINE OF THE PRESENTATION
Overview
Areas of progress
Areas of concern
Post 2015 development agenda
3. OVERVIEW
The continent continues to make steady progress
on most of the goals;
Africa’s performance on the MDGs varies across
and within countries;
Africa’s aggregate performance on the MDGs
masks wide income, gender and spatial
inequalities in accessing social services.
4. AFRICA’S MDG PERFORMANCE AT A GLANCE,
2012
Goals and Targets Status Remarks
(from the Millennium Declaration)
$1.25-a-day poverty in Africa (excluding ) declined
from 56.5% to 47.5% during 1990–2008
Progress on food security is slow. Hunger
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme reduced by 18% during 1990–2011 in
Off track
poverty and hunger Africa (excluding North Africa) and 39% in
North Africa
Average enrolment exceeds 80%
Goal 2: Achieve universal Issues of quality remain
On track: net enrolment Most countries are not expected to meet the
primary education completion target
Good progress at primary level but weak parity at
Goal 3: Promote gender equality secondary and tertiary levels of education
On track
and empower women High representation in parliament
Declining, but slowly
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality Off track
Declining, but slowly
Goal 5: Improve maternal
Off track
health
HIV/AIDS on the decline, especially in , due to
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, behavioural change and access to antiretroviral
Off track
malaria and other diseases therapy
Few countries have reforestation plans
Emissions minimal for most countries with little
Goal 7: Ensure environmental On track: improved increase
Most countries reduced consumption of ozone-
sustainability water supply
depleting substances by more than 50%
5. AREAS OF PROGRESS
Goal 1: Both the poverty rate and the number of poor
people declined for the first time since poverty
monitoring began;
Goal 2: Tremendous gains in Net primary enrolment in
most African countries and the continent is likely to
meet net primary enrollment targets;
Goal 3: Significant strides in promoting gender parity
in primary education and women's representation in
national parliament;
Goal 4: Immunization coverage has expanded in most
countries;
Goal 6: Sustained progress in the fight against HIV
&AIDS,TB and Malaria;
Goal 8: A considerable number of African countries
have reached post-HIPC completion point.
6. AREAS OF CONCERN
Goal 1: The pace of poverty reduction is too
slow to meet the goals by the target date ;
Goal 1: Unemployment, particularly among
the youth, low productivity and poor working
conditions persist despite rapid growth;
Goal 2: Notwithstanding significant progress
in primary enrollment, completion rates and
quality of education remain low;
Goals 4 and 5: Performance in reducing
infant, under-five and maternal mortality is
still slow and not sufficient to achieve the
goals by the target date.
7. AREAS OF CONCERN (CTD)
Goal 6: Funding cuts threaten gains made in
fighting HIV and AIDS, Malaria and TB;
Goal 7: Poor sanitation, limited access to improved
drinking water sources, declining forest cover and
climate change are among the most pressing
environmental challenges facing the continent;
Goal 8: Donors face sharp increases in budget
challenges of their own, making their aid
commitments more challenging.
8. AREAS OF CONCERN (CTD)
Inequality and quality of service delivery also
remains a concern ;
Monitoring and evaluation of MDGs indicators is
problematic due to weak capacity of statistical
system in the continent ;
In general with the current trend Africa will not
achieve the MDGs by the target date ;
9. POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
Africa’s must play an active and strategic role
in shaping the post 2015 development agenda;
The continent needs to assess success and
failures by policy makers and development
partners to develop an inclusive and
sustainable post-2015 development agenda;
Current development debate is as follows:
MDGs as they are but extending the target date
MDG plus introducing new challenges
New development framework
10. POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA (CTD)
The 19th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of
State and Government(Decision Assembly/AU/DEC.423
(XIX)) of the African Union in July 2012 requested the
Commission, in close consultation with Member States and
Regional Economic Communities, to identify Africa’s
priorities for the post-2015 development agenda with the
support of the AfDB, UNDP, UNECA and all other stake
holders ;
Following the decision of the Assembly, the
Commission in collaboration with UNECA, AfDB
and UNDP has designed consultation strategies
on the post 2015 development agenda;
11. POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA (CTD)
The strategy was to organize two regional and one
continental consultations on the post 2015
development agenda involving all stake holders;
The Commission used the opportunity of other
forums such as private sector forum, the statistics
meeting, RCM and other foras to discuss the post
2015 development agenda;
The main objective of the consultations is to identify
African priorities for the post 2015 development
agenda and to ensure that the post 2015
development agenda debate is credibly informed by
Africa’s perspectives and priorities ;
12. POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA (CTD)
Statisticians need to be involved and should play a
major role in the formulation of the post 2015
development agenda to define measurable and
realistic indicators taking into consideration
African specificity ;
The outcome of the consultations will culminate in
an African Common Position to be adopted at the
21st Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of
State and Government of the African Union in July
2013 ;
The African Union will be presenting the Common
position to the 68th United Nations General
13. THANK YOU
Dossina YEO
Statistics Division
E-mail: DossinaY@africa-union.org
www.au.int
