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Africa is projected to have the fastest urban growth rate in the world: by 2050, Africa’s cities will be home to an additional 950 million people. Much of this growth is taking place in small and medium-sized towns. Africa’s urban transition offers great opportunities but it also poses significant challenges. Urban agglomerations are developing most often without the benefit of policies or…

The new goal is to establish targets that are useful and relevant both locally and globally; and to “decouple” economic growth and improvements to standards of living from environmental degradation and unsustainable resource use. The proposed solutions are varied. There are suggestions, for example, to keep the food system within environmental limits by encouraging dietary changes: it seems…

The implementation of Agenda 2063 has gathered momentum at all levels. The continent has made some remarkable progress towards attaining the goals defined in Agenda 2063’s First Ten-Year Implementation Plan as outlined in this report. The Executive Council at the 32nd Ordinary Session in January 2018 approved the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and Indicator…

In the face of megatrends such as globalisation, climate and demographic change, digitalisation and urbanisation, many cities and regions are grappling with critical challenges to preserve social inclusion, foster economic growth and transition to the low carbon economy. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the global agenda for the coming decade to end poverty, protect the planet and…

A lot has happened in migration in the last two years since the release of the World Migration Report 2018in late 2017.5 The world has witnessed historic change at the global level with United Nations Member States coming together to finalize two global compacts on the international manifestations of migration and displacement: the Global Compact for Safe, …

Is the world becoming less Western? Is the West itself becoming less Western, too? What does it mean for the world if the West leaves the stage to others? What could a joint Western strategy for an era of great power competition look like? The Munich Security Report 2020 sheds light on the phenomenon that it refers to as "Westlessness" – a widespread feeling of uneasiness and…