In 2024, there were important and positive shifts in the internal displacement policy landscape, as well as cause for concern. Take, for example, the Independent review of the humanitarian response to internal displacement. This was a welcome opportunity for much-needed critical reflection, but it also identified serious shortcomings in the humanitarian and development response
What next for internal displacement: Four priority actions for 2025
ODI Global
Le Bénin est confronté à des défis environnementaux majeurs liés à la pollution. Les principaux facteurs contribuant à cette situation préoccupante sont la croissance démographique rapide, l'urbanisation galopante et le développement industriel non réglementé.
Les Béninois restent sur leur soif en matière de lutte contre la pollution
Afro Barometer
The importance of African cities as economic, political and social actors is increasing. While Africa used to be perceived as a predominantly rural continent, it is estimated that by 2050, the urban population of the continent will increase by around 900 million people, nearly tripling.
Decentralization and Its Effects on Urban Governance in Africa
French Institute of International Relations
Solving Iraq’s demographic crisis will require immediate and comprehensive action at both the state and individual level.
Without these solutions, we risk extensively harming our future generations.
Adressing Iraqs Environmental Challenges: Population Growth
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Complexity and uncertainty characterize the relationship between climate change, conflict and displacement. The analytical enormity of climate change, conflict and displacement as individual challenges is further amplified when these are considered collectively. In addition to being complex and uncertain, the relationship between climate change, conflict and displacement is also highly political. Political priorities and associated narratives (rather than independent and impartial evidence) determine how climate change, conflict and displacement are conceptualized and addressed.
Living with climate change, conflict and displacement
Overseas Development Institute
Globalization and extensive urbanization worldwide have brought cities to the forefront of global governance in a multilateral system designed and created for states. Cities have come to exercise power due in part to the inadequacy or ineffectiveness of inter-state action, but also because their democratic nature and immediate connection to the population make them legitimate actors. This Briefing Paper discusses the changing role played by cities transnationally as actors involved in global governance. It also seeks to increase awareness of the global rise of cities. The paper starts by exploring the empowerment of cities, followed by a discussion on the means through which cities exercise their power, as well as relevant policy sectors that constitute important parts of their global agenda. Finally, the Briefing Paper ponders the implications for the state-dominated international order.
Cities as global actors: Bringing governance closer to the people
Finnish Institute of International Affairs
It is hard for anyone who has not traveled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over a period of decades to realize just how much each nation in the region has changed in terms of basic demographics. There has been a massive increase in population in every MENA country since the end of World War II and the colonial period, and the nations in the Arab/Persian Gulf are no exception.
Demographic Change in the Arab/Persian Gulf A case Study by Country
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Today, the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) is releasing a "Migration Drivers Report" for Egypt, as a Country of Origin of applicants for international protection in Europe.The report provides up-to-date information on asylum-related migration to the EU and based on open-sources information, analyses push-pull and other enabling factors; as well as offers a forward-looking analysis to identify potential events that may impact these trends. The reference period is March 2022 to June 2022.
Migration Drivers Report: Egypt as a Country of Origin
European Union Agency for Asylum
Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and prospects, with a special focus on emerging market and developing economies, on a semiannual basis (in January and June). Each edition includes analytical pieces on topical policy challenges faced by these economies.
Global Economic Prospects June 2022
World Bank Group
This Migration Governance Indicators (MGI) pro?le presents a summary of well-developed areas of migration governance in Liberia as well as areas with potential for further development, as assessed through the MGI. The MGI is a standard set of approximately 90 indicators to assist countries in assessing their migration policies and advance the conversation on what well-governed migration might look like in practice.
Republic of Liberia Migration Governance Indicators
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Countries are yet to harness the potential of migrant workforces to support their green transitions. Efforts to facilitate the economic integration of migrants are currently not aligned with green skills development and job creation, which are themselves inadequate. Similarly, there is a lack of coordination between international cooperation to support green transitions and green skills development, and international cooperation on global migration policies.
Migration for Climate Action How Labour Mobility can Help the Green Transition
ODI
At the February 2022 Assembly of AU Heads of State and Government (HoSG) Summit, the HoSG committed to exercise leadership to advance the vaccination agenda and urge the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to ensure greater coordination and collaboration to support Member States in achieving the goal of vaccinating at least 70% of the continent's population by year 2022.
Report of the High Level Ministerial Meeting Partnerships to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccination in Africa
African Union
Transitional justice is a tried and tested approach in post-conflict peacebuilding. It presents challenges and opportunities in regions plagued by violent extremism, such as the Lake Chad Basin.
Transitional justice Testing the waters in the Lake Chad Basin
Institute for Security Studies
The marine fish supply is increasing but the current positive growth is at a rate that cannot match the increasing population's per capita consumption demands.
The Future of Marine Fisheries in the African Blue Economy
African Development Bank Group