The Abuja Declaration, entitled ‘Africa’s Priorities for the New Urban Agenda’, was adopted by the representatives of national government, local and regional authorities, intergovernmental organizations, United Nations agencies, professionals and academia, private sector, civil society organizations, women, children and youth, participating in the Habitat III Africa Regional Meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, from 24 to 26 February 2016.
The declaration takes into account the recent adoption of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, as well as the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Further, the declaration includes several recommendations, that is to:
- Harness the potential of urbanization to accelerate structural transformation for inclusive and sustainable growth
- Enhance people-centered urban and human settlements
- Strengthen institutions and systems for promoting transformative change in human settlements
- Enhance the contribution of urban and human settlements development to continental integration
- Eenhance environmental sustainability, resilience and effective responses to climate change in cities and human settlements
- Enhance efforts to advance a global partnership to facilitate the implementation of the new global urban and human settlements agenda
- Strengthen UN-Habitat to make it politically visible, as the key player in mobilizing all relevant actors, State and non-State in implementing the New Urban Agenda as the outcome of Habitat III as well as the urban and human settlements component of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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