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- From: 05/06/2013
- To: 07/06/2013
- Location: Praia, Cape Verde
Remittances represent a rising source of finance for the continent and hold immense potential as drivers of economic growth and development. A recent study, Leveraging Migration for Africa: Remittances, Skills, and Investments, conducted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in collaboration with the World Bank shows that remittance flows into Africa reached US $40 billion in 2010 and have quadrupled since 1990. African remittances currently account for 2.6 per cent of GDP, a figure that in some countries equals or even exceeds both foreign direct investment and aid.
Categories: Cape Verde, Migration and Development Initiative, Human and Social Development, Economic & Financial Governance
- Date: 22/03/2013
The importance of cooperation has long been recognized as fundamental to developing Africa’s water sector. African Governments and development partners alike understand the centrality of water in meeting basic human needs, supporting socio-economic development and poverty reduction, as well as in protecting the environment and biodiversity – and continue working together to catalyze the development of the water sector to meet Africa’s water needs.
Categories: Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Multidonor Water Partnership Program, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
- Date: 13/03/2013
- Location: IHEC Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
“Social Business has enormous potential to solve social problems in a financially sustainable way, both in Tunisia and across Africa.” – Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Chairman of Yunus Social Business.
Categories: Tunisia, Human and Social Development
- Date: 12/03/2013
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
Nobel Prize-winner, Professor Muhammad Yunus, will give a speech in the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Eminent Speakers Series on March 12, 2013 in Tunis. The topic of Prof. Yunus’ speech, the 19th in the series which began in 2005, will be “Building Social Business in Africa: the new kind of capitalism that serves society’s most pressing needs.”
Categories: Tunisia, Economic & Financial Governance
- From: 11/03/2013
- To: 14/03/2013
- Location: South Africa
Representatives from Ministries of Finance and Health, national health insurance authorities and development partners, as well as experts and practitioners from Asia and Africa are to meet in South Africa next month at a forum on the role of health insurance in achieving universal health coverage and social health protection.
Categories: South Africa, Human and Social Development, Health
07/03/2013 - International Women’s Day is a day of celebration and a day of challenge, often rolled into one. In realizing how far we have come towards ensuring genuine equality of opportunity for women as for men, it becomes clear how far we still have to go.
Categories: Gender, Education, Human and Social Development, Health
- Date: 06/03/2013
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
The African Development Bank Group will, on March 6, 2013 in Tunis, host the 2nd governing council meeting of the Africa fertilizer financing mechanism (AFFM). AFFM aims to create a catalytic environment for the investments needed in Africa to enhance fertilizer production and consumption at affordable prices. It focuses on two types of activities, namely facilitation and encouraging the private sector to invest in fertilizer ventures aimed at expanding national and regional production capacity.
Categories: Tunisia, African Fertilizer Financing Mechanism, Private Sector Development
- Date: 04/03/2013
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
“Promoting Economic Reforms in Developing Countries: Rethinking Budgetary Aid?” is the first paper to be discussed by the African Development Bank’s Office of the Vice-President (ORVP) and Chief Economist Complex (ECON) on March 4, 2013 in Tunis as part of the joint ORVP/ECON Bi-Monthly Country Economic/Thematic Review Meetings. Monday’s meeting marks the first of the 2013 series.
Categories: Tunisia, Economic & Financial Governance
- From: 27/02/2013
- To: 28/02/2013
- Location: Maputo, Mozambique
The African Development Bank, in collaboration with the Government of Mozambique, is organizing a high-level policy seminar on the theme “Managing Revenues and Optimizing the Benefits of Coal and Gas Resources in Mozambique” in Maputo from February 27-28, 2013. This seminar takes place against the backdrop of Mozambique’s recent experience in a boom in extractive industries which are expected to accelerate in the coming years as recent discoveries have confirmed coal and gas reserves estimated at 25 billion tons and between 50 and 70 trillion cubic feet, respectively. Seismic activities in the discovery areas of gas, in the Rovuma off-shore basin, suggest that possible gas reserves could actually exceed 120 trillion cubic feet.
Categories: Mozambique, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- From: 16/02/2013
- To: 20/02/2013
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will be hosting the third CLEAR (Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results) Global Forum in Tunis, Tunisia. The Global Forum will focus on strategy and planning; progress in M&E with stakeholders, and learning from each other.
Categories: Tunisia
