Tag: African Development Bank

Seventy-four trainees from 26 African countries will join the continent’s community of climate finance experts after successfully completing a training program through the African Development Bank. Eighteen of the 74 graduates who emerged as top achievers qualified as trainers and will continue to build capacity across the continent. The “training of trainers” program empowered trainees to design proposals that will… Read More

La Banque africaine de développement et l’Agence des Nations unies pour les réfugiés en Mauritanie (HCR) ont remis, ce jour, un lot d’ambulances médicalisées au ministère mauritanien de la Santé pour l’aider à faire face à la pandémie de Covid-19. À cette occasion, le représentant de la Banque africaine de développement, Amine Mouaffak, et la représentante du HCR, Maria Stavropoulou,… Read More

La Première ministre du Gabon, Mme Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, et le directeur du bureau-pays de la Banque africaine de développement au Gabon, Robert Masumbuko, ont procédé, mercredi 31 mars à Libreville, à la pose de la première pierre marquant le début des travaux de réhabilitation et d’extension du réseau d’eau potable du Grand Libreville qui abrite plus de la… Read More

This month, known to many as International Women’s month, the African Development Bank Group continues to put a spotlight on women-led businesses and financial institutions set to support them. The business experiences of African women running small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as financial institutions supporting them, were the subject of an online event held on 8 March 2021, by… Read More

The Making Finance Work For Africa (MFW4A) initiative and the Development and Economic Growth Research Programme (DEGRP) at the think tank ODI are hosting a short series of webinars based on two recently published DEGRP synthesis reports on the banking and financial sectors in sub-Saharan Africa.The first webinar in this series, Sub-Saharan Africa’s interbank markets: progress, barriers and policy implications, will focus on the role that interbank markets… Read More

Several heads of state and government, the United Nations and heads of multilateral development finance institutions on Monday called for expansion of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative, under which low-income countries have suspended paying down debt during the Covid-19 pandemic. The initiative should be widened beyond low-income countries and its current expiration extended to offer much-needed fiscal space, panelists urged… Read More

What: Webinar Who:  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and African Development Bank When: Wednesday, 14 April 2021; 13.00-14.30 (GMT) / 15.00-16.30 (CET) Where: Virtual – Register here The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the African Development Bank are hosting a virtual roundtable to review action taken by African companies to promote corporate anti-bribery policies and… Read More

The African Development Bank’s Fashionomics Africa initiative has named a women-led Kenya shoe design house as the winner of its competition to support producers of sustainable fashion. Pine Kazi, which converts pineapple leaf and recycled rubber into fashionable footwear, won the $2,000 Fashionomics Africa competition cash prize. In addition, the business will have the opportunity to showcase its creation in… Read More

Y aller ? Ne pas y aller ? Entre le volant de son camion de transport et un lopin de terre agricole, Abdoul Seck était en plein doute. Finalement, il a choisi sa voie, l’agriculture, pour le plus grand bonheur de sa famille. « Avant le lancement du projet hydro-agricole, raconte-t-il, j’étais chauffeur professionnel, épuisé par les va-et-vient incessants entre Louboudou, mon village,… Read More

What: Fashionomics Africa Webinar Series, Episode 7 Who: Gender, Women and Civil Society Department of the African Development Bank When: Wednesday, 31 March 2021, 12.00 to 14.00 GMT Where: Online via Zoom – Click here to register for free            The Gender, Women and Civil Society Department of the African Development Bank Group will host the seventh episode of the… Read More