AAPAM African Association for Public Administration and Management AfDB African Development Bank
ALGA African Local Government Academy
AMCOD All Africa Conference of Ministers responsible for Local Governments AMN African Metropolis Network
AU African Union
AUC African Union Commission
BRICS Brazil, Russian, India, China and South Africa CATF Cities Alliance’s Catalytic Fund
CCRA Council of Cities and Regions of Africa CityRAP City Resilience Action Plan
COMESA Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa COP21 21st Conference of the Parties
DCOG Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs DfID Department for International Development
DiMSUR Disaster Risk Management, Sustainability and Urban Resilience DRR Disaster Risk Reduction
EAC East African Community
ECHO European Commission Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
FDI Foreign Direct Investment
GADDEPA Governance, Advocacy and Decentralization Development Programme in Africa GAP General Assembly of Partners
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GFDRR Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
GHG Greenhouse Gas
GIZ Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Society for International Cooperation)
GTF Global Task Force
HIS Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies
HR Human Resources
ICCAR International Coalition of Cities against Racism
ICLEI International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives ICT Information and Communication Technology.
INDH Initiative Nationale pour le Développement Humain (National Initiative for Human Development) KPIs Key Performance Indicators
LED Local Economic Development LEDNA Local Development Network of Africa MDGs Millennium Development Goals MFI Microfinance Institutions
MITC Multi-Stakeholders Informal Trading Committee MOUs Memorandums of Understanding
NAFCOC National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development
NGO Non-governmental organization NLEWA Network of Local Elected Women
NUA New Urban Agenda
PFI Policy Framework for Investment PPP Public-Private Partnerships
PR Peer Review
RAFCOD African Network of Decentralized Cooperation
REFELA Réseau des Femmes Élues Locales d’Afrique (Network of Locally Elected Women in Africa)
RIAFCO Réseau des Institutions Africaines de Financement des Collectivités Locales (Network of African Local Government Financial Institutions)
SACN South African Cities Network
SALGA South African Local Government Association
SAMSET Supporting African Municipalities in Sustainable Energy Transitions SAQA The South African Qualifications Authority (
SDGs Sustainable Development Goals SDI Slum Dwellers’ International SE4All Sustainable Energy for All
SETAs Skills Education Training Authorities
SFDRR Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction SMME Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises SOCRs State of Cities reports
STC Specialized Technical Committee (African Union)
UATP Union Africaine des Transports Publics (African Association of Public Transport) UCLGA United Cities and Local Government Association
UEMOA Francophone West Africa Economic and Monetary Union
UITP Union Internationale des Transports Publics (International Association of Public Transport) UNDG United Nations Development Group
UNECA United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
UNISDR United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction WAEMU Western African Economic and Monetary Union
Notes
1. Inclusive growth and sustainable development, integrated continent, good governance, peace and security, strong cultural identify, development driven by people, especially women and youth, an influential global player and partner.
2. participatory governance: vertical decentralization refers to the transfer of authority, functions, responsibilities and resources from central government. to local government, while horizontal decentralization entails the empowerment of local communities and neighbourhoods to determine, plan, manage and implement their policies.
3. With reference to Africities 6, Dakar, it should be remembered that “Building supranational spaces may be derived from local government recommendations.
It suggests an alternative approach to development, that of access to rights. This is the territorial aspect of rights that is part of local politics. It’s the convergence of rights that make the territorial aspect of rights meaningful”.
4. Vision of the Agenda 2063. http://agenda2063.au.int/
en//vision
5. UN-Habitat. 2010. The State of African Cities.
Governance, inequality and urban land markets.
Nairobi: UN-Habitat.
6. See Dr Dlamini-Zuma’s speech, in which she says that
“In transforming our cities we must pay particular attention to Agenda 2063 priorities”.
7. See the presentation note.
8. The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group is a network of the world’s megacities taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.c40.org/
9. Dr Guillaume Iyenda (Dar es Salam, Kinshasa), Dr Mona Serageldin (Cairo and Khartoum), Prof. Philip Harrison (Johannesburg) and Dr Cheick Gueye (Dakar and Lagos)
10. De St Moulin, L. 1976. Contribution à l’histoire de Kinshasa (I) in Zaïre-Afrique, No 108, Kinshasa, p. 463 11. World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision,
UNDESA, New York, 2014
12. The United Republic of Tanzania Population and Housing Census, Vol. 1, 2012
13. “As explained by P. Harrison (page 16)
14. A term used to describe the ways in which Africans have actively participated in the processes that created and maintain the continent’s dependent position within the global system
15. See the work of, among others, Samir Amin, l’Institut des Futurs Africains.
16. Republic of Tanzania. 2014. Socio-economic overview of the Dar es Salam region, Prime Minister’s Cabinet, Local and Regional Administration, page 12.
17. Stduy by M. Serageldin, page 7 18. By Dr. Gueye
19. M. Serageldin, page 7
20. Page 13 of Dar es Salam report. See also Bruno Losch 21. M.Serageldin, page 22
22. Dr Guillaume Iyenda
23. As noted in an African Development Bank (AfDB) report
24. Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of the ECA writes in the October 2015 edition of New African:
“urbanisation in Africa is set to become the fastest ever in human history”.
25. Posited by the historian A. Mbembe, professor at Wits University.
26. Character in the novel Ambiguous Adventure by C.H.
Kane, published in the early 1960s
27. The alternative scenario is one that sees political and/
or economic breakdown in one or more countries to the north, within renewed streams of migrants into South Africa, and Johannesburg and the Gauteng City Region in particular.
28. See the book on IFA Afrique 2025, page 123
29. The name of this scenario is borrowed from a slightly adapted quote by André Malraux “Life is worth nothing, but nothing can replace life,” says one of his characters in
L’Espoir-30. Mbourourou Mbarara is the title of his collection of short stories on Dakar.
31. See the book Le Maroc en Afrique: La Voie Royale, Institut Amadeus, 2015
32. The #FeesMustFall campaign in South Africa is quite emblematic in this regard. The movement is a harbinger of new forms of expression and organization and also evidence of a breakdown in communication between political leaders and the youth.
33. This approach is defended by eminent establishment economists such as Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman and Amartya Sen and often described as neo-Keynesian economics.
34. Speech by Dr Dlamini-Zuma, 23 June 2015 during the African Capital Cities Sustainability Forum held in Johannesburg
35. ibid
36. P. Harrison, Johannesburg Foresight, page 5 37. See the project Great Transition Initiative directed by
Paul Raskin.
38. “Tomorrow’s African Cities…Today”, 39. Interview with Alioune Badiane, UN-Habitat 40. “Environmental friendliness” according to the term
used by M. Serageldin, page 41
41. This phrase is said to have been coined by Marechal Lyautey.
42. Alymana Bathily in Seneplus, 4 November 2015 43. The term is borrowed from Michel Godet.
44. 23 June 2015 during the African Capital Cities Sustainability Forum held in Johannesburg
45. Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of UNECA. 2015.
New African, October 2015