Tag: Africa Banking

By Vanessa Moungar This year, we are a mere decade away from the 2030 deadline of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Sadly, as we approach this key milestone of human progress, we are losing the battle against a challenge afflicting millions of girls and women around the world. According to the latest UNICEF data, more than 125 million girls and… Read More

The African Development Bank’s latest Fashionomics Africa webinar attracted an impressive “who’s who” of industry talent to share ideas on how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital trends in the fashion industry. Under the theme “Fashion Enablers: Bridging the Gap for Fashion Entrepreneurs in Africa” the webinar on 29 January aimed to build bridges between designers and provide insights on… Read More

What: Global high-level event to accelerate investment and action to end female genital mutilation Who: African Development Bank Group, United Nations Population Fund When: 5 February 2021; 13:30 – 14:25 GMT Where: Virtual  (YouTube) African Development Bank Group Acting Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Wambui Gichuri, will represent the Bank’s President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina at a… Read More

The African Development Bank, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and GRID-Arendal have released the inaugural Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa, a tool to benchmark and propel Africa’s progress towards Sustainable Development Goals on safe sanitation and wastewater management. The Atlas aims to help policymakers accelerate change and investment in the sector.   The result of four years of collaboration, the… Read More

En l’espace d’une décennie environ, les conditions d’hygiène se sont nettement améliorées dans les zones rurales de la Mauritanie. Plus d’une centaine de localités ont notamment reçu la certification « Fin de défécation à l’air libre » (FDAL) après la mise en œuvre du Projet national intégré dans le secteur de l’eau en milieu rural (PNISER). Le projet mis en œuvre depuis… Read More

Governments and the private sector must adopt a ‘whole systems approach’ to urgently deliver the climate-resilient and clean infrastructure that Africa needs, panelists at the 2021 Climate Adaptation Summit said on Tuesday. Scaled up infrastructure, partnerships, integrating gender, de-risking and mobilizing private sector finance are all essential to long-term progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, participants heard. Speaking on the… Read More

Le Projet d’appui aux micros, petites et moyennes entreprises et à l’emploi des jeunes (PAMPEJ), lancé en mai 2017 en Mauritanie, porte déjà ses premiers fruits à mi-parcours de son exécution. Il a permis de créer plus d’un millier d’emplois et de lancer plusieurs centaines de micro, petites et moyennes entreprises (MPME), selon le rapport de la Banque africaine de… Read More

Help is on the way for the global cocoa supply chain, severely threatened by climate change. A new project by the African Development Bank and the International Agroforestry Agency (ICRAF) would bring relief to two Ivorian smallholder cocoa farmers’ communities in Soubre and Vavoua currently grappling with declining yields caused by climate change and worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Without… Read More

African leaders and representatives from the development community, civil society and private sector came together on Thursday for a symposium to celebrate two decades of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), a flagship program of the African Union. Participants commended the African Development Bank highly for its role in financing infrastructure and agricultural programs on the continent. NEPAD has… Read More

A climate resilient project in Zambia supported by the African Development Bank and Climate Investment Funds (CIF) has won the Water ChangeMaker People’s Choice Award-Africa, it was announced at the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021 on 25 January.  The Strengthening Climate Resilience in the Kafue Sub-basin Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (SCRiKA), beat two other finalists identified by an expert jury to… Read More