Tag: Africa Banking

What: Virtual Seminar on Minerals and Africa’s Development: Challenges and Opportunities.   Who: African Development Bank When: Thursday 25 February 10:00 to 12:00 GMT Where: Virtual (Via Zoom) The African Development Bank’s African Natural Resources Centre (ANRC) and African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) will join the Nordic Africa Institute in hosting a webinar titled, Minerals and Africa’s Development: Challenges and… Read More

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) Observatory on COVID-19 Responses in Educational Systems in Africa, a consortium that includes the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), has released its first brief, which promotes evidence sharing about policy and education interventions as well as targeted recommendations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The… Read More

The African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) program has agreed a partnership with the African Guarantee Fund (AGF) to unlock $1.3 to 2 billion in loans to women-owned Small and Medium Sized Enterprises(SMEs) in Africa, by working with financial institutions to enhance their ability to lend to women. The move signals the launch of AFAWA’s… Read More

The Mozambique Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Area 1 Project and the African Development Bank have jointly received the prestigious Global Multilateral Deal of the Year 2020 award by the print and online publication Project Finance International (PFI). The project, the single largest foreign direct investment in Africa to date with a value of over $24 billion, will exploit Mozambique’s immense… Read More

To mark International Day for Women and Girls in Science, we asked contributors to the recently released Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas for Africa about the science that went into the Bank co-publication and their experiences as pioneering women in their field. Maimuna Nalubega, Ph.D, Chief Water Development Officer, African Development Bank Q: The Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas for Africa explores… Read More

What:   Webinar on NDC Private Sector Reports for Africa When:  Thursday, 18 February 2021; 14:00 – 16:00 GMT Who:    African Development Bank Where: Virtual (Zoom) Climate action not only presents profitable investment opportunities for the private sector but also helps protect those investments from the devastating impacts of climate change.  To support the private sector with climate action, the African Development Bank, in partnership… Read More

The Country Economics Department (ECCE) and the Human Resources  Departments (CHHR) of the African Development Bank are collaborating with researchers at Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) and Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School to train the Bank’s Country Economists on effective post-COVID-19 response and recovery strategies for Africa. The COVID-19 outbreak has triggered a global economic downturn, with populations locked… Read More

The President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, has called for fair access to COVID-19 vaccines for Africans and said debt relief would help African economies recover faster and better from the pandemic. Speaking on 8 February at a virtual event held in his honour as the outgoing African of the Year of African Leadership Magazine, the… Read More

Dans la mise en place des projets qu’elle finance, la Banque africaine de développement place l’autonomisation des femmes au centre de ses interventions, notamment pour la réduction de la pauvreté et la résilience des communautés. La Banque s’est dotée le 3 février 2021 d’une stratégie du genre pour la période 2021-2025 qui ambitionne de transformer les secteurs clés du développement… Read More

As part of the European Investment Bank financial sector program for West and Central Africa, Making Finance Work For Africa (MFW4A) and the Internationale Projekt Consult (IPC), Horus and Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement Consortium (IECD) are hosting a series of four webinars for banks and microfinance institutions. The third webinar, The Acceleration of Digitalization in Covid-19 times,… Read More