Webinar: AFD & WBG Migrants, Markets & Mayors: Rising above Employment Challenge on Africa's Secondary Cities

Webinar : AFD & WBG Migrants, Markets & Mayors: Rising above Employment Challenge on Africa's Secondary Cities

Research on migration and urban development in Africa has primarily focused on larger cities and rural-to-urban migration. However, 97% of Africa’s urban centers have fewer than 300,000 inhabitants, and a sizable share of urban migrants come from other urban areas. 

Migrants, Markets, and Mayors: Rising above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities draws on demographic data, research literature, key informant interviews, and empirical research to better understand how migrants in Africa’s secondary cities fare in urban labor markets, how they affect aggregate urban productivity, and how mayors can leverage migrants’ potential to the benefit of all. It explores 4 urban case settings: Jijiga in Ethiopia, Jinja in Uganda, and Jendouba and Kairouan in Tunisia.

Join the conversation with researchers and practitioners on the occasion of the virtual launch of the French version of our report  jointly published by Agence française de développement and the World Bank Group.