Summary

The adoption of the Common African Position on the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development (Habitat III) by African Heads of State and Government, as Africa’s contribution to the New Urban Agenda (General Assembly resolution 71/256), marks the commitment of African Member States to implement the sustainable urban planning and development agenda. African policymakers realized that they needed to localize or link more closely the policy and strategic imperatives of the New Urban Agenda to the African context, with clear linkages and synergies between the New Urban Agenda and the Post-2015 Development Agenda, including components of Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want (African Union Commission, 2015), in order to simplify the implementation, monitoring and reporting of the New Urban Agenda by Member States through the leveraging of resources.