By Nteranya Sanginga Africa’s population will double by 2050 if growth rates continue their trajectory, but the creation of jobs is not keeping pace, with up to five times more young people seeking employment each year as there are new posts to fill. And, on top of this, the COVID pandemic is plunging Africa into its first recession in 25 years.
By Joseph Chamie The demographic impact of the coronavirus one year after being declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020 has been enormous. The picture that emerges is one of significant consequences on the levels and trends of the key components of demographic change: mortality, fertility and migration.
Turning the tide for women and girls caught in the Cabo Delgado crisis
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Reflections by Dr. Julitta Onabanjo, UNFPA Regional Director for East and Southern Africa
As governments and communities rallied together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, other humanitarian crises caused by conflict and natural disasters continued unabated. This is the situation faced by Mozambique, a nation that was still wrestling with the devastating impact of two cyclones in 2019 when a tropical storm and another cyclone hit recently – amid the violent conflict in its northern reaches.
By the time the New Year rang in, more than 1.3 million Mozambicans were in need of humanitarian aid and protection.
Delegates at a webinar discuss COVID-19 and its impact on older persons.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan 29 2021 (IPS) - Internationally COVID-19 extracted a heavy toll on older people – raising concerns in the Asia Pacific region where more than half of the world’s ageing population live.
“Rising inequalities have resulted in the increasing poverty, insufficient access to health and social protection services, which have been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Bjorn Andersson, Regional Director of UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia Pacific said. He spoke at a webinar to discuss a recently released policy review undertaken on Vietnam, Australia, Thailand, and Kazakhstan.
Developing investment cases for transformative results
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INTRODUCTION
This toolkit is designed to support UNFPA regional and country offices to develop country investment cases in support of one or more of the transformative results. It provides a concise and practical guide on how to develop a national investment case, including a step-by-step guide on:
How to prepare for the investment case
How to estimate the cost of the investment using standardized tools
How to develop investment scenarios to determine the scale of the impact that can be attributed to the investment
How to frame the investment angle
How to use the investment case in national advocacy efforts.