News & Events
04/01/2013 - The African Development Bank and the Government of Malawi officially launched the UA 29.45 million Malawi Higher Education, Science and Technology (HEST) Project in Ntchisi, Malawi, in December. The Bank has provided an ADF loan of UA 9.05 million and a grant of UA 10 million plus an additional loan of UA 6.5 million from the Nigerian Trust Fund, while the Government of Malawi is to provide UA 2.95 million in counterpart funding.
Categories: Malawi, Education, Information & Communication Technology, Human and Social Development
11/12/2012 - Representatives from governments, parliaments, CSOs, private sector; youth, and NGOs from the Central, West and North Africa are gathering on December 10-11, 2012 in Dakar, Senegal, to discuss top priorities to be included in the global development agenda beyond 2015, which will be debated at the UN General Assembly in September 2013.
Categories: Senegal, Human and Social Development, Youth, Education, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
06/12/2012 - “‛Bread, freedom and social justice’ is what Egyptian revolutionaries called for in the January 25 revolution; the one issue that touches on all of this is unemployment,” Egypt’s Prime Minister Hisham Kandil said in a speech during the official opening of the “Youth Employment: Building the Future of Egypt” forum co-organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Social Fund for Development (SFD) in Cairo on December 5.
Categories: Egypt, Education, Human and Social Development, Youth
06/12/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday signed two loan agreements with the Government of Kenya amounting to millions of dollars to finance a major regional hydroelectric power project and the enhancement of the country’s higher education system.
Categories: Kenya, Education, Human and Social Development, Energy & Power
05/12/2012 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank, on November 21, approved the Uganda Support to Higher Education, Science and Technology Project, a key Human Development operation that will contribute to the economic and social transformation of Uganda and the East African sub-region. In line with Uganda’s National Development Plan for 2011-2015, the project aims to turn the country into a regionally competitive industrial economy by 2025 by developing skills and investing in science and technology.
Categories: Uganda, Education, Human and Social Development
30/11/2012 - The African Development Bank has approved a US $43.7 Million loan to the Kenyan Government to enhance education and training institutions and develop skills needed in the changing labor market.
Categories: Kenya, Education, Youth, Human and Social Development
29/11/2012 - The African Development Bank is investing in the Lake Chad Region to empower particularly women in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDs. The AfDB has been supporting skills building and education of health service providers as part of its strategy to develop the region’s human capital and improve health service delivery and HIV/AIDS responses.
Categories: Chad, Health, Human and Social Development, Education
29/11/2012 - The education of Kenya’s youth is being threatened by HIV/AIDS. Children affected by the disease shy away from schools due to social stigmas and lack of funds, while the country is losing an estimated 1.7 per cent of its teachers each year due to the disease.
Categories: Kenya, Human and Social Development, Health, Youth, Education
26/11/2012 - Le Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), en partenariat avec la Coopération finlandaise et le Gouvernement tunisien, a organisé à Kairouan, les 19 et 20 novembre 2012, un atelier sur la présentation du modèle finlandais d’appui à l’employabilité des diplômés de l’enseignement supérieur et de la formation professionnelle.
Categories: Finland, Tunisia, Education, Human and Social Development
07/11/2012 - Africa’s strategy for human capital should focus on Africa’s youth who do not have basic education and the unemployed being produced at different levels of the education system. Priority needs to be placed on the growing creative sector and ensuring the sustainability of this growing market in Africa.
Categories: South Africa, Human and Social Development, Education
