Africa in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
A Geographical Perspective
Edited by Leo Charles Zulu, Cristina D’Alessandro
Routledge
262 pages
This book offers a multifaceted examination of Africa’s development into the post-2015 global agenda from a geographical perspective. As a diversified and highly applied discipline, geography has a lot to offer to global debates, nuanced analysis of problems on and the search for innovative solutions to advance the African development agenda beyond 2015. The end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era and the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 mark an important turning point for Africa and an opportune time to examine new challenges and opportunities that it faces. The regional disparities in MDG progress affirm an important geographic tenet that the unique yet internally differentiated socio-cultural, economic, political, ecological, biophysical and historical context give Africa distinctive challenges and opportunities that demand particular approaches to development. This edited book presents innovative contributions examining Africa’s development performance in diverse sectors during the MDG era as a basis for understanding prospects for its development in the SDG era and beyond. It offers new and innovative study perspectives and methodological approaches on urban transformation, development financing, food security, climate change, gender equality, health, and regional integration, among other topics, and useful insights for scholars, students and development practitioners. This book was originally published as a special issue of African Geographical Review, the journal of the American Association of Geographers’ Africa Specialty Group, to mark the transition from MDGs to SDGs.
Table of Contents
1. From the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Africa in the post-2015 development Agenda. A geographical perspective
Cristina D’Alessandro and Leo C. Zulu
2. Advancing African agency in the new 2030 transformative development agenda
Hany Besada, Jajun Xu, Annalise Mathers, and Richard Carey
3. From global goals to regional strategies: towards an African approach to SDGs
Giovanni Valensisi & Stephen Karingi
4. Can using geographical factors leverage private equity to deliver sustainable development results?
Frannie Léautier
5. Reproducing spaces of embeddedness through Islamic NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections on the Post-2015 development agenda
Evren Tok
6. Engaging with and measuring informality in the proposed Urban Sustainable Goal
Helen Arfvidsson, David Simon, Michael Oloko & Nishendra Moodley
7. MDGs to SDGs – New goals, same gaps: The continued absence of urban food security in the post-2015 global development agenda
Janes Battersby
8. The SDG13 to combat climate change: An opportunity for Africa to become a trailblazer?
Agathe Maupin
9. Gender equality as a mean for women empowerment? Consensus, challenges and prospects for the post-2015 development agenda in Africa
Francis Onditi & Josephone Odera
10. Defining and measuring water access: Lessons from Tanzania for moving forward in the post-Millennium Development Goal era
Sarah Smiley
11. Ecological sanitation: sustainable goal and local choices. A case study from Taita Hills, Kenya.
Paola Minoia
12. The Millennium Development Goals and Chinese involvement in French-speaking West Africa: which contributions for which issues?
Xavier Aurégan
13. Understanding the spatial context of sustainable urban health in Africa for the SDGs: Some lessons from the corridors of deprivation in Ilorin, Nigeria
Usman Rahem
14. The marginalization of walking, the Achilles’ heel of sustainable mobility policies in Oran (Algeria)
Asma Kerrouche & Mohamed Madan