Tag: Africa Banking

In celebration of International Women’s Day, and to mark the rollout of the Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) Guarantee for Growth program, the African Development Bank and the African Guarantee Fund are putting the spotlight on women supported by the AFAWA Guarantee for Growth program – an innovation aiming to unlock up to $3 billion in loans to women-led small and medium-size enterprises (WSMEs). These African women running their own businesses are taking part in an online panel event, co-organized by AFAWA and the African Guarantee Fund,…

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What: Webinar Who: The African Development Bank’s African Development Institute When: Monday, 15 March 2021, 14:00–17:00 GMT for delegates from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and the Caribbean. Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 08:30–11:30 GMT for delegates from within the Indian Ocean Rim region, including Oceania and Asia Where: Virtual On 15 and 16 March, the ADI and its Global Community of Practice (G-CoP) partners will hold a policy dialogue on addressing gaps in the structure and scale of funding constraints to African institutions. These gaps present a challenge…

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Faith Keza is a happy entrepreneur. CEO at Irembu, Kigali, Rwanda. She is Rwandan. She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study electrical engineering and computer science but the goal was always to come back and be part of the Rwandan story… This dream came true thanks to the support provided by the Bank to Kigali’s Carnegie Mellon University where she teaches. Faith’s story is a perfect illustration of how concrete and palpable the Bank’s projects can be when it comes to supporting women. It also shows the…

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To mark International Women’s Day, development leader Wambui Gichuri shares her thoughts on how far Africa has come on gender equity. She also reveals personal life lessons that have inspired her. Gichuri is Acting Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, as well as Director for Water Development and Sanitation, at the African Development Bank. 1. What does International Women’s Day mean to you? International Women’s Day is a celebration of women’s remarkable achievements and an opportunity to review the obstacles that stand in the way of women realizing…

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La nouvelle stratégie du genre pour la période 2021-2025, rendue publique le 3 février dernier, renforce les engagements de la Banque africaine de développement en faveur de l’autonomisation des femmes, notamment dans la situation de fragilité à laquelle le Sahel et le bassin du Lac Tchad font face. Dans ces deux régions marquées par des crises multiformes, la Banque s’emploie à mettre en œuvre des initiatives qui visent à promouvoir l’égalité des genres et accélérer la résilience économique des femmes. En effet, les inégalités de genre au Sahel et dans…

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Engagée aux côtés de ses pays membres régionaux pour atténuer les effets du changement climatique, la Banque africaine de développement accorde une grande priorité à la résilience climatique des femmes. Dans les sociétés africaines, particulièrement en milieu rural, certaines tâches domestiques sont dédiées aux femmes: approvisionnement du foyer en eau et en bois de chauffe, gestion de la production agricole familiale, activités génératrices de revenus, notamment, le petit commerce, etc. Il en résulte que les femmes sont les premières victimes face à la raréfaction des ressources naturelles et à la…

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Maurice : le Document de stratégie 2021-2025 veut s’appuyer sur les acquis du précédent DSP pour renforcer la résilience économique et les capacités de production d’énergie renouvelable | African Development Bank – Building today, a better Africa tomorrow African Development Bank Group

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The African Development Bank has approved two grants for research that will increase African women’s access to a range of digital financial services including loans and micro-insurance. The grants, for $1 million and $300,000 respectively, will be disbursed through the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility, a blended finance vehicle supported by the Bank, to two financial technology firms, Pula Advisors Kenya Ltd., and M-KOPA Kenya Ltd. Pula Advisors will use the $1 million for research of social, cultural and economic factors that impact women farmers’ access to micro-insurance in Kenya,…

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La pandémie de Covid-19 a aggravé les vulnérabilités des personnes déplacées de force et les différents acteurs –gouvernementaux, multilatéraux, non gouvernementaux et privés— doivent développer plus de synergies pour prendre en compte son impact disproportionné sur ces populations vulnérables, ont estimé les participants à un panel organisé mercredi 3 mars dans le cadre du Forum d’Assouan II (1er au 5 mars), en Egypte. Ce panel avait pour thème : « Prendre en compte les déplacements forcés dans les processus de planification nationale et de paix : localiser le changement de paradigme…

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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…

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