Tag: African Development Bank

The African Development Bank has virtually launched its new policy on water in a virtual ceremony. The event, held 22 June was attended by Acting Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development Atsuko Toda, and Osward Chanda, Acting Director, Water Development and Sanitation Department. In her opening remarks, Toda underscored the importance of the water policy to the Bank’s… Read More

The African Development Bank Group President, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, joined French President Emmanuel Macron and others at the Generation Equality Forum in Paris, where he highlighted the role of the Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative in growing the continent’s women-led businesses. “Women run Africa and they should run Africa…they create more businesses than men… Read More

The African Development Bank’s incoming Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Dr. Beth Dunford, and  Director for Agricultural Finance and Rural Infrastructure Development Atsuko Toda joined development leaders online to launch this year’s African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) Agribusiness Deal Room. The AGRF’s agriculture matchmaking platform initiative links some 4,000 actors in the agriculture sector to investment and… Read More

MDBs publish 2020 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance Eight MDBs committed $66 billion for climate finance in 2020, up from $61.6 billion Of the total, 58 per cent was committed in low- and middle-income countries Climate finance committed by major multilateral development banks (MDBs) rose to a total of $66 billion last year from $61.6 billion in… Read More

What:    Webinar on climate change adaptation Who:     The Civil Society and Community Engagement Division of the African Development Bank, the Economic, Social & Cultural Council of the African Union, and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention When:    8 July 2021, 10.30-12.00 GMT Where:    Virtual The Civil Society and Community Engagement Division of the African… Read More

The African Development Bank, the Korean Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Export-Import Bank of Korea have signed an agreement, under which Korea will provide $600 million in co-financing for energy projects alongside the African Development Bank. The Korea-Africa Energy Investment Framework (KAEIF) pact follows the signing on 28 May 2021 of a General Cooperation Agreement between the Bank… Read More

La Mauritanie et la Banque africaine de développement signent deux accords de don de plus de huit millions de dollars pour l’investissement, l’emploi des jeunes et la gouvernance | African Development Bank – Building today, a better Africa tomorrow <!– African Development Bank Group Read More

Africa’s ability to respond to future pandemics will depend on making investments in health and education, and governments must immediately intensify efforts to avoid further crisis. “Ebola was a signal,” John Nkengasong, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told participants in a virtual session on healthcare held during the African Development Bank’s 2021 Annual Meetings. “We… Read More

The African Development Bank Group’s shareholders have shown strong support for the Bank’s proposals to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, and this as the continent faces the possibility of a third wave of infection amid poor vaccine access. This emerged from the 56th Annual Meetings of the Bank Group. The three-day event, which ended on Friday, included the 47th meeting of… Read More

Le regard tourné vers l’horizon, Sondos Bannouri est plongée dans ses pensées. Sur les hauteurs de la montagne de Bargou, elle contemple le tracé des collines de sa région natale, Siliana. Au nord-ouest de la Tunisie, ce site historique regorge de vestiges antiques, témoins de l’une des batailles puniques les plus importantes : celle qui a opposé le roi Syphax… Read More