Category: Investments

Women farmers in Tanzania have harnessed solar technology to reduce post-harvest losses, enhancing food security, panelists learned at an African Development Bank event held February to launch its Gender and Energy brief on the status of gender mainstreaming in Tanzania’s energy sector. The brief aims to provide recommendations that will inform policymaking by government and other stakeholders. Increasing gender equality in access to energy is expected to create jobs and other opportunities for women in Tanzania’s energy sector. The Bank organized the virtual workshop in cooperation with the Climate Investment…

The second edition of the Aswan Forum on peace, security and development opened on Monday, 1 March in Cairo, Egypt, with African leaders identifying insecurity and the burden of debt as the most pressing challenges to the continent’s post-COVID development. The virtual opening session, chaired by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, was on the subject of “Shaping Africa’s New Normal: Recovering Stronger, Rebuilding Better”. The African Development Bank is a strategic partner of the Forum, which runs until 5 March. Africa is grappling with health and economic challenges inflicted by…

The African Development Bank has helped communities in Zambia acquire goods worth around $450,000 since mid-2020 to cushion vulnerable people from the impact of COVID-19. In the Nakonde district on the Tanzanian border, the Bank authorized the Zambian government to set aside $200,000 from a livestock project that was near completion to procure and distribute COVID-19 relief packages of food, livestock, farming inputs and medical materials. The relief packages included 600 goats, 44 cattle, 2,000 chickens, 13 metric tonnes of chicken feed, 520 kilos of pasture seeds and two egg…

The African Development Bank has helped communities in Zambia acquire goods worth around $450,000 since mid-2020 to cushion vulnerable people from the impact of COVID-19. In the Nakonde district on the Tanzanian border, the Bank authorized the Zambian government to set aside $200,000 from a livestock project that was near completion to procure and distribute COVID-19 relief packages of food, livestock, farming inputs and medical materials. The relief packages included 600 goats, 44 cattle, 2,000 chickens, 13 metric tonnes of chicken feed, 520 kilos of pasture seeds and two egg…

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has awarded a grant of $320, 535 to the West African Monetary Agency to mainstream gender in ECOWAS’ core digital financial services (DFS) regulatory frameworks. The funds will support a gender gap analysis of several WAMA strategies including those for financial inclusion; gender disaggregation data analytics; digital payment services and infrastructure; and digital identity.  The project, to be executed over a three year period, will potentially affect 350 million people in all 15 ECOWAS nations:  Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Cabo…

What: “I AM #AFAWA” Webinar Who: Gender, Women & Civil Society Department of the African Development Bank and African Guarantee Fund (AGF) When: 8 March 2021, 11.00 to 13.00 GMT Where: Online via Zoom – Click here to register for free http://bit.ly/AFAWAiwd2021 The Gender, Women and Civil Society Department of the African Development Bank Group will host a virtual webinar in partnership with the African Guarantee Fund on Monday, 8 March 2021, called “I AM #AFAWA”. This virtual event, organized on International Women’s Day, marks the start of implementation of…

La deuxième édition du Forum d’Assouan s’est ouverte lundi 1er mars au Caire sous la présidence du chef de l’État égyptien, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, sur le thème : « Façonner la nouvelle normalité de l’Afrique : récupérer plus fort, reconstruire en mieux ». La Banque africaine de développement est un partenaire stratégique du Forum, qui se déroule jusqu’au 5 mars. « L’année dernière, les défis imposés par la crise nous avaient amenés à redoubler d’efforts pour réaliser les objectifs de l’Agenda 2063 de l’Union africaine. La concrétisation de la ZLECAf…