The document discusses supporting achievement of the SDGs in Africa through data, finance, digitalization, and localization. It outlines Africa's current development challenges and progress towards the MDGs. The SDGs present an opportunity for transformation if supported by improved data, increased and innovative financing, embracing digital technologies, and localizing implementation. Key pillars to enable this include strengthening statistical systems, mobilizing resources from all sources, building digital infrastructure and skills, and enhancing local governments' capacity.

1. Achieving the SDGs in
Africa: data, finance,
digitalization &
localization
@wbg2030
worldbank.org/sdgs
Georgetown University
January 23rd 2019
Mahmoud Mohieldin
Senior Vice President
World Bank Group

2. Table of contents
I) African Perspectives
II) The opportunity of the SDGs
III) Supporting the SDG Agenda
Data
Finance
Implementation
Digitalization
Localization

3. Total countries: 52
FDI to Africa: $42 billion (Out of
total $1.43 trillion)
FDI outflow from Africa: $12.1
billion
Source: International Monetary Fund, 2018 https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/datasets/WEO/1
World Investment Report, UNCTAD, 2018 https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2018_en.pdf
African Perspectives
GDP share of world:
2.75%
GDP per capita (Current prices, U.S.
dollars per capita): $1,890
Population: 1.3 billion
Share of total population:
17.33%
China: 1.38 billion
India: 1.33 billion
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4. Africa GDP compared to China and India
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5. CommodityPrices
 Africa is anet commodities exporter and is
deeply affected by lower commodityprices
Mainchallenges affecting Africa
Poverty
 Poverty is falling more slowly in Africa than
other regions
 Absolute number of poor hasincreased dueto
high population growthrate
Sluggish Growth
 Growth continues to strengthen, reaching an
estimated 3.5 percent in 2018, but is still
below potential
 Commodity exporters are experiencing the
sharpestdeclines in growth
CurrencyDepreciation andDebt
 Thestrong USdollar hasput pressureon
currencies acrossthe region
 Thishasincreased inflation and led to higher
debt burdens
Fragility andConflict
 Africa hosts athird ofthe world’s displaced
population
 Theregion hasseenan increasein non-traditional
forms of conflict that target civilians
ClimateVulnerability
 Africais the lowest carbon emitter but is more
vulnerable to climate changethan other regions
 Climate changethreatens natural capital,
physicalcapital, and humancapital
Source: African Economic Outlook 2019, African Development Bank
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6. 6
The SDGs present a major opportunity for transformation
Global development agendas serve as a guide for countries to determine their national development path
MDGs (2000-2015) SDGs (2016-2030)
Goals/ Targets/Indicators 8/21/60 17/169/~230
Priority Areas Human Development Holistic: Economic, Social, Environmental
Scope Developing Countries Universal

7. With underachieved MDGs, the SDGs require more work
Improvementsinhealth,nutrition,andeducation,butmuchremainstobedonetomeettheMDGs inAfrica.
 Thecontinent achievedmorethan70percentof theprogressrequiredby2015onseveralindicators:prevalenceof undernourishment(83 percent);
infantmortalityratio(72 percent);under-5mortalityrate(81 percent);andaccess to safedrinkingwater (78 percent).
 Despiteprogress,thecontinentstill lagsbehindotherregionsin reducingextremepovertyandachievinggenderparityin schoolsand accessto
sanitation.
TheSDGsarethenextstepintheglobaleffortstotransformdevelopmentwithamoreambitiousagenda.
 Toachievetheir promise, SDGsrequire major commitments regardingpolicyandinstitutional reform aswell as deliveringon the AddisAbaba
Financingfor DevelopmentAgendawhichaimsto convertbillions to trillions,mobilizingnewresourcesfor development,private businessand
finance inparticular.
100%
59%
100%
62%
33% 33%
51%
74%72%
80%81%
65%
60%
78%
16%
10%
0%
30%
20%
50%
40%
60%
70%
80%
100%
89%
90% 83%
Extreme poverty Prevalence of Primary completion Ratio ofgirls to Mortality rate, Mortality rate, Maternal mortality Access to safe Accessto basic
(population below undernourishment rate, total (%of boys in primary and infant (per 1,000 live under-5 (per 1,000) ratio (modeled drinking water (%of sanitation facilities
estimate, per population with (%of population1.25 day, 2005 PPP) (% of population) relevant agegroup)secondary education births)
(%) 100,000 live births) access) with access)
Distanceto2015goal,%
Global and Africaprogress towardthe MDGs varies Developing
countries,weighted bypopulation
100%
Distance to the goal achievedglobally (%) Distance to the goal achieved SSA(%)
Source:WDIOctober2015dataandDevelopment Economics,World Bankstaff calculations.
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8. Africa’schallenges areat the heart of the WBG priorities and the SDGs
Impact of Climate
Change
Fostering Inclusive
Growth
Getting Servicesto
the Vulnerable
Reducing Fragility Migration and
Displacement
Leveraging Resources
for Development
Links to WBG
Corporate
Priorities
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9. 63%
38%
52%
88%
68%
87%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Basic water Basic sanitation Access to electricity
SDG 6 SDG 7
SDGs 6 and 7
Africa World
39%
17.7%
33%
10.9% 10.7%
22%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
Poverty headcount
ratio - $1.90
Prevalence of
undernourishment
Prevalence of stunting
SDG 1 SDG 2
SDGs 1 and 2
Africa World
9
Source: Staff calculations from World Bank WDI, 2018
HowareAfricancountriesprogressingontheSDGs?

10. 18 African Countries have already presented their SDG
implementation plans at the High Level Political Forum
0
5
10
15
Yes Some No Yes Concept No
Budget in HLPF Incorp into natl budget
Financing
0
2
4
6
8
Yes Concept No Yes Some No
Integrate SDGs into nat'l monitoring Review of state of data
Data
Source: Preliminary staff analysis of 2016-2018 VNR country reports
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11. Algeria
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo (Republic of the)
Cote d’Ivoire
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ghana
South Africa
Timor-Leste
Tunisia
13 more African countries are presenting VNRs in 2019
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12. Key pillars to support the achievement of the SDGs
Implementation:
Digitalization &
Localization
DATA FINANCING
Ref: WBG/UN report to
the UN CEB on the
Lessons Learned from
the MDGs; DC Lima
paper on WBG’s role on
SDGs; Disruptive Tech
and the WBG DC 2018
AMs paper.
Ref: Spring Meetings
2015 Development
Committee paper on
Financing; Addis 2015
outcome document
Ref: UN report on “A
World that Counts”;
WBG/MDBs/UN MoU on
Data
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13. 13
Data is the New Oil

14. Realizing the Data Revolution
Source: Who and what gets left behind? Assessing Canada’s domestic status on the sustainable development goals, Brookings, 2017
0
5
10
15
20
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17
Seventy-eight of 169
SDG targets describe
potentially assessable
outcomes for Canada
Not able to assess
Proxy target
Canadian national target
Quantified SDG target
Source: Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs 14

15. Improving Statistical Capacity
Statistical Capacity is a nation’s ability to collect, analyze, and disseminate high-quality data about its
population and economy. Quality statistics are essential for all stages of evidence-based decision-making,
including:
• Monitoring social and economic indicators
• Allocating political representation and government resources
• Guiding private sector investment
• Informing the international donor community for program design and policy formulation
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16. The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals – a visual
guide to data and development
• The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals
presents maps, charts, and stories related to
the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
• The Atlas discusses trends, comparisons,
and measurement issues using accessible
and shareable data visualizations. The data
draws on the WDI. For each of the SDGs,
relevant indicators have been chosen to
illustrate important ideas.
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17. 17

18. 18
Financing for Development Landscape

19. 19
Finance will need to come from all sources
Big picture of developing countries' total
resource receipts
Tax revenues
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
FDI Net Inflows (% of GDP)
Low & middle income
World
Middle East & North Africa
Fintech

20. 20
Embracing the Digital Economy

21. Human Capital Index
Source: WDR 2019 Team
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/8162
81518818814423/pdf/2019-WDR-Report.pdf
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22. Readiness to Change Index (1 of 2)
Source:2017ChangeReadinessIndex,KPMG

23. Readiness to Change Index (2 of 2)
Source:2017ChangeReadinessIndex,KPMG

24. Technological Readiness Ranking
Source: Preparing for Disruption, Technological Readiness Ranking, Economist Intelligence Unit
http://www.eiu.com/Handlers/WhitepaperHandler.ashx?fi=Technological_readiness_report.pdf&mode=wp&campaignid=TechReadiness
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Offers an assessment of how
well prepared countries are for
technological change, across
three key categories:
• Access to the internet
• Digital economy
infrastructure
• Openness to innovation

25. Mobile Broadband Connectivity Status (2017)
Source: GDDDR analysis, based on ITU and TeleGeography data
Color Min. Max.
0 25
25 50
50 75
75 100
100 125
125 150
150
Growing digital divide: Limited and expensive broadband connectivity is slowing
economic transformation in Africa and access to services
Average Price of 1GB relative to monthly Income
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26. In 2016, the global digital economy was worth
$11.5 trillion, or 15.5% of the world’s GDP. It
is expected to reach 25% of the world’s GDP
in less than a decade.
90% of all digital data has been created in the
last 2 years.
Autonomous car will soon generate some
4,000 Gigabytes of data for each hour of
driving, equivalent of daily data use of 3,000
people.
By 2025, GSMA Intelligence estimates there will be 25 billion
Internet of Things (IoT) connections – up from 6.3 billion in 2016
- with growth driven largely by demand in industrial segments.
At a Time of Rapid Digitalization,
Africa Has an Opportunity to Build a Digital Economy
And yet, these promises will remain unrealized for the 3.5B people still missing out due to lack of connectivity 26

27. Digital Technologies Are Impacting All Sectors,
creating new opportunities and risks
DIGITAL
ECONOMY
Digital Finance
Smart
Agriculture
Digital
Government
Digital
Citizen
Digital Private
Sector
Smart
Energy
eCommerce
Digital
Education
Digital
Health
Industry
4.0
Digital
Transport
Digital
Culture
Digital
Infrastructure
Digital Skills
Digital
Entrepreneur
Digital
Platforms
Inclusive
Growth
Jobs
Competitive
Economy
Efficiency
The scale and speed of
disruption is affecting
traditional sectors.
Changing how we collect,
store, access, analyze and
present data.
Improving production
techniques to increase
efficiency, affordability,
and speed.
Transforming how we
interact with the world
and deliver/ receive
services.
Digital economies require safeguards to ensure robust job markets, and possible downside risks 27

28. 1 Skills development can be accelerated through use cases and a concerted public/private focus
2 Digital infrastructure depends on Usage to drive investment; it covers broadband connectivity data centers and clouds
3 Digital platforms include digital identification, private sector platforms, and Gov-Tech
Enabling policy and regulatory environment is included in each foundational elements.
DIGITALSKILLSANDLITERACY
DIGITALPLATFORMS
USAGE
APPLICATIONS LIKELY TO DEVELOP ONCE THE FOUNDATIONAL
ELEMENTS ARE IN PLACE:
• E-COMMERCE
• OPEN BANKING: non-banks offer tailored services
• DATA LOCKERS to access selected services
DIGITAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES
DIGITAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Foundational elements
Broker:Harnessdisruptive
technology,data, and
expertiseto solve
development challenges
and managerisks
Build:Developthe
foundational building
blocksfor sustainable,
technology-led
economies
Boost:Expandthe
capacity of peopleand
institutionsto thrivein a
resilient societyin the
faceof disruption
Africa Requires an Ecosystem Approach To Building the Digital Economy
DE4A is consistent with the WBG’s ‘Boost-Build-Broker’
approach for Disruptive Technologies and a key element
for the Human Capital
MACROECONOMIC ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
• Macro-economic stability
• Financial sector stability and integrity
• Enabling Tax policy Enabling Trade policy
CROSS-CUTTING AREAS
• Competition policy
• Gender
• Cybersecurity
• Privacy
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29. Localization

30. Indonesia:
A program is being
implemented to enhance the
capacity of local
governments to improve
efficiency and effectiveness
of local public spending.
Also implemented the PNPM
program: community driven
development
U.K. Midlands
Successful locally owned
businesses help develop
local markets, create
innovation, success and
redistribution in a self-
reinforcing cycle
Colombia:
LocalizationofUrbanDevelopment
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31. 1 2
2004: Official Government Portal
launched
Four areas of focus:
- Institutional development
- Governmental services
- Enterprise resource planning
- Establishing & integrating
national datasets
Government Services Development
Program:
Digital services for speed delivery
 Education enrollment
 Utilities
 Legal services
 Government services location
sharing
 Information on municipal
governance, complaints &
inquiries
Needed: virtual decentralization & IT
capacity-building at local levels
Egypt
31Source: Elmassah & Mohieldin, 2019

32. Private initiative:
MasterCard & IFC, using big data tools,
achieved progress in promoting coverage of
financial services to the poor in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Ghana
Uses 2 terabytes of
BD by mobile
network operators
Forecast potential
users of DFC at local
level
Uptake of DFS in
Ghana increased by
70,000
32Source: Elmassah & Mohieldin, 2019

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Made government data,
widely available to the public.
• National health
• Education
• Infrastructure
• Census surveys
Kenya Open Data
Initiative (KODI)
• Enforced ICT standards in
government
• Promoted ICT literacy, capacity,
innovation & enterprises.
2013: Kenyan ICT
Authority
established
• New website (Kenya Government
Portal)
• E-citizens (engagement) platform
• Open data platform
• Network of ‘one-stop shops’ citizens
technical assistance with accessing e-
government services (Ex. online tax
returns)
2015: E-
governance
initiatives
Kenya
Source: Elmassah & Mohieldin, 2019

34. E-government services started in 2005
• “One-stop shop” solutions for citizens
• Citizens engagement in policy discussions
(Professional education)
Government & OECD’s Open Government Project
 Design and enact reforms using big data with
public & civil society
Tunisia
The Big Data Hackathon in 2017  Encourage
start-ups, educational institutions, to innovate
on available big data
Tunisian E-government Society raises awareness
on political, administrative functions and usages
of IT platforms & information
34Source: Elmassah & Mohieldin, 2019

35. Every African Individual, Business and
Government (central and local) to be Digitally
Enabled by 2030
Reaching the
Moon
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36. • Launched in 2014. Youth competition on innovative ways to finance and implement development
solutions to help reach the SDGs.
• Partnership between the World Bank Group and the Wharton School, amongst others
• In 2017 the Ideas for Action (I4A) competition attracted over 700 proposals from 118 countries.
• Winning proposals :
• Top 10 will be published in a book
• Top 3 will participate in the WBG-IMF Annual Meetings
• The Wharton School offers top 10 winners training and opportunities to exchange knowledge
• Visit the website at http://www.ideas4action.org/; Follow us @Ideas4Action
• Call for proposals for the 2018 edition of I4A : Deadline February 28th
http://www.ideas4action.org/2018-competition/
Watch video of
2016 winners
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37. Mahmoud Mohieldin
Senior VP
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