Category: Investments

Africa’s aviation industry represents a huge market that the continent’s airlines need to exploit more fully, with technology and AI offering the way forward for expansion, regional development experts said Thursday. “Technology and smart technologies are offering this fantastic opportunity, so let’s make use of AI, let’s make use of the Internet of Things, let’s capacitate our people to revamp… Read More

The African Development Bank celebrated 40 years of evaluating its development efforts, taking the opportunity to reflect on the challenges around monitoring and evaluating progress in the SDGs. The discussions marked Evaluation Week, a biennial event on development evaluation hosted by the Independent Development Evaluation unit at the Bank on Wednesday. The event brings together the Bank’s shareholders, management and… Read More

How can people in Africa acquire the skills to digitize work and help diversify and grow economies? This was one of the main questions posed at an online colloquium on Digital Technical and Vocational Education and Training (DTVET) co-organized by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) and Festo Didactic on November 26. Digital learning tools will… Read More

WHAT: Africa Energy Market Place (AEMP) – Unlocking the Solar Potential of the G5 Sahel Countries WHO: African Development Bank Desert to Power Initiative, PEVP Complex WHEN: 8 -10 December 2020 WHERE: Virtual via Zoom The African Development Bank is organizing the 4th edition of the Africa Energy Market Place (AEMP), dedicated to the G5 Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Chad,… Read More

What: Webinar on Africa’s COVID-19 Response within the Extractives Sector: The Future of Mining in Africa. Who: African Development Bank When: Wednesday, 9 December 10:00 am to 12:00 noon GMT Where: Virtual (Via Zoom) The African Natural Resources Centre (ECNR) and the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) of the African Development Bank will host a webinar to discuss the Future… Read More

COMESA : des bureaux d’information commerciale, installés avec le soutien de la Banque africaine de développement, à l’écoute des petits commerçants transfrontaliers (rapport) | African Development Bank – Building today, a better Africa tomorrow <!– African Development Bank Group Read More

The African Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and UN Women unveiled details of its Africa Gender Index report during a virtual global dissemination event on Tuesday, 1 December 2020. The Africa Gender Index is the most comprehensive measure of the state of gender equality across 51 of 54 African countries. It highlights the progress made in… Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed health and economic crises across the world, including in Africa, undoing decades of economic growth and human development. Post-pandemic, comes the challenge of recovery and reviving growth. The African Development Bank’ s 2020 edition of its Annual Development Effectiveness Review,   (ADER) marks ten years since the report was first published to assess the institution’s and… Read More

The African Development Bank has taken home two coveted prizes at the 17th Annual International Business Awards in recognition of the institution’s 2019 Annual Report. The Bank was awarded gold in the Best Annual Report Among Non-Profit Organizations category at a virtual event which aired on 1 December. A video produced to support the report took third place in the… Read More

Kindergarten teacher Fatima Zahera Hagou recalls that just a generation ago, when the sun went down over the Moroccon countryside, her rural village of Dar Laain ground to a halt and locals bedded down for the night. Nowadays, Dar Laain, about 25km southwest of Marrakech, booms with life after dark, thanks to the expansion of the electricity grid. Residents have… Read More