THEME 1: A DEMOGRAPHY OF AFRICA

•   Fertility transition in Africa 

• Children, youth and the transition to adulthood

•   Determinants and consequences of African urbanisation

•   Family planning & reproductive health

•   Demographic projections

•   Adult health, mortality, morbidity and ageing

•   Migration patterns, trends and consequences

•   Marriage and the African family

THEME 2: POPULATION & DEVELOPMENT

•   Population & development: programs and policy ü  Poverty in Africa

•   Agriculture, food security & climate change

•   Population and gender

•   HIV, health & development interventions

•   Population and economic development

•   The demographic dividend and the African economy

•    Population, education and development

•   Population, development and environment

•   Population studies in school curriculum

THEME 3: POPULATION DATA & METHODS

•   Big data and data revolution 

•   Methodological issues and data sources in fertility, mortality or migration

•   Measurements of poverty

•   Small area estimation in Africa

•   Civil registration, administrative records and population & housing censuses

•   Spatial analysis in demography

•   Health & demographic surveillance systems and other data sources: validation, comparability & complementarity

•   Quality issues in African surveys & censuses

•   Statistical information systems on fertility, mortality and migration

THEME 4: COMMUNICATING POPULATION DATA & RESEARCH

•   Population data literacy for non-data users 

•   Demographic data for development decision-making: building capacity of policymakers, media and civil society

•   Effective advocacy for sound policy-making

•   Data-based advocacy: using statistical indicators for public awareness on population issues

•   Communication population research

•   Closing the research-to-policy gap