Commitment title:

Population and Sustainable Development

Commitment description:

Place and Mobility
1. Promote safe, orderly and regular migration and minimize the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of origin
2. Prevent, combat and eradicate trafficking in persons
3. Scale up interventions to minimize rural-urban migration
5. Institute early warning mechanisms for internal displacement
6. Promote equitable human settlement planning to respond to the causes and consequences of migration flows
7. Facilitate access to basic social services in slums
8. Develop and implement Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies disaster risk reduction plans
9. Implement LI 2384 backing the Land Use and Spatial Planning Act 2016 Act 925
10. Improve technological infrastructure facilitating money transfers in the rural areas
11. Establish a National Migration Commission

Strengthen Population Governance
1. Establish a cross-sectoral planning group on population to ensure regular dialogue on the prioritization and integration of population in the development planning process
2. Incorporate the AADPD/ICPD-PoA into national development planning processes including emerging issues such as climate change
3. Reposition population management to attract the necessary political and financial commitment from successive governments
5. Strengthen the capacity of parliament to provide oversight to the executive in population management

Internal and International Partnerships
1. Strengthening partnerships with the private sector, civil society organisations (CSOs), young people and development partners, religious bodies, traditional and community leaders and other groups in the country and establishing structures for engaging on the implementation of the AADPD/ICPD-PoA, while exploring new partnerships

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action
  Population and Sustainable Development