Population Dynamics and Demographic Dividend

The Demographic Dividend project sought to support evidence generation and policy engagement to enhance government commitment to addressing population challenges and foster inclusive socioeconomic development using the demographic dividend paradigm.

With support from UNFPA Malawi, AFIDEP will produce a series of position papers on the implication of Malawi’s population dynamics on critical areas of development: poverty, transformational education and skills development, private sector development and job creation, environment and governance.

This project seeks to highlight the disparities in urban contraceptive, identify existing policy gaps and demonstrate the importance of family planning to sustainable urbanisation in Malawi.

The aim of the Policy Communication Fellows Programme is to develop the next generation of leaders from the less developed world regions who will shape policy in their countries, regionally and globally. The programme is jointly hosted by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP).

Advancing our understanding of the true prevalence of traditional methods of contraception in four African countries as well as women’s motivations for using these methods.

The BUILD program (Building Capacity for Integrated Family Planning/Reproductive Health and Population, Environment and Development Action) seeks to achieve strong political commitment, sustained financial resources and accountability for voluntary family planning and reproductive health.

BUILD is a 5-year program.

The Exemplars in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASHER) project seeks to identify countries that have made exemplary progress in reducing adolescent fertility rates/teenage pregnancies compared to their counterparts.

The study analysed the youth demographics in the East Africa Community (EAC) region and how this bears on ongoing demographic changes on the African continent which is characterised by declining fertility, child mortality and rapid population growth.

The Strengthening Use of Research Evidence for Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (enSURE Adolescent and Youth SRH) project sought to increase the use of evidence in decision-making processes to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in Kenya.

The Botswana Demographic Dividend project aimed to develop a Roadmap for the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MFED) to guide the implementation of the Botswana DD Study recommendations.

This project was completed in May 2023 and it was a successor project for the demographic divided modelling report that was completed in 2018. The report had key recommendations that the roadmap sought to provide an implementation framework:

The Botswana DD project was able to put the DD on the radar of Botswana’s Demographic dividend landscape to inform the government’s development planning framework. The government received the demographic-divided roadmap report which was developed through a stakeholder-based process. The roadmap will be used as a guide for Botswana’s planning and implementation framework. It is envisaged that the Demographic divided dashboard that was developed under the project will contribute towards steps to establish projects monitoring and performance framework for the country. The dashboard will not be a stand-alone system, rather, it is expected to be embedded into the integrated Development Projects Monitoring System (DPMS)for the country.

Under the leadership of South Africa’s Department of Social Development and Stats SA, we are pleased to host a seminar series in October and November 2020, titled Demography and COVID-19 in Africa – Evidence and Policy Responses to Safeguard the Demographic Dividend. 

Find all the resources from the webinar series here:

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1. WEBINAR 1 – Oct 21: The demographic impact of COVID-19: global, regional and national experiences
2. WEBINAR 2 – Oct 28: An exploration of evidence-based service delivery in the times of COVID-19
3. WEBINAR 3 – Nov 4: South Africa’s Social and Economic Programmes to Harness the Demographic Dividend
4. WEBINAR 4 – Nov 11: The Impact of COVID-19 on the African Continent’s Prospects of Harnessing a Demographic Dividend
5. WEBINAR 5 – Nov 25: WRAP UP SESSION – Series Synthesis and Policy Options