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The African Development Bank (AfDB) is pleased to announce that it will host the second Business Opportunities Seminar in Tunis on 13 and14 November 2012. Business Opportunity Seminars are targeted at private sector organisations from the AfDB’s 77 member countries.

Categories: Tunisia, Partnerships

The African Development Bank Group will be hosting the 2012 Asset and Liability Management and MDB Risk Management Forum in Tunis from September 27-28, 2012. The forum will be attended by delegates from several multilateral development banks and financial institutions.

Categories: Tunisia, Economic & Financial Governance

On the occasion of the African Economic Outlook 2012 (AEO) regional launch in Tunis, under the high patronage of the Tunisian Head of Government, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the OECD Development Centre jointly organise a conference on “Promoting Youth Employment in the North Africa Region” on 16 July 2012 in the Ministry of Human Rights and Transitional Justice, Tunis.

Categories: Tunisia, Youth, Human and Social Development

The former Ghanaian president, John A. Kufuor, will take the podium on the 18th occasion of the AfDB’s Eminent Speakers Program on 6 July 2012 in Tunis. The theme of the speech will be “Challenges and Opportunities of Entrepreneurship Capacity Development in Africa”.

Categories: Tunisia

On July 4-5, 2012, the AFDB as a key partner of the Harmonization for Health in Africa (HHA) mechanism organized a high-level dialogue between Ministers of Finance and Health on Value for Money, Sustainability and Accountability in the Health Sector in Tunis.

Categories: Tunisia, Health, Human and Social Development

World Press Freedom Day is celebrated on 3 May. The 2012 World Press Freedom Day has more resonance in Tunisia, in the year after its revolution which gave the country press freedom, and sparked the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011.

Categories: Tunisia

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will hold its annual Partnerships Forum from 22 – 23 March 2012, at Hotel Ramada Plaza-Gammarth in Tunis, Tunisia. This year’s forum theme is “Transforming Partnerships towards a Green and Inclusive Africa.” Participants will include representatives of bilateral and multilateral donors, business sector, private foundations, knowledge institutions and Civil Society Organizations.

Categories: Tunisia, Partnerships, Private Sector Development

Remittances back home to North Africa and the franc zone from African migrants working abroad are worth tens of billions of euros every year. They are resilient to crisis and are a valuable spur to development in Africa. However, the costs of sending this money are far too high.

Categories: France, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Algeria, Migration and Development Initiative

“The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) is committed to work with the Pan-African Lawyers’ Union (PALU) towards the creation of a better legal environment that creates an unquestionable stability necessary to attract national and foreign investments in Africa,” said ALSF’s CEO, Stephen Karangizi, as a prelude to a joint ALSF-PALU capacity building seminar that will be held from 24 to 26 January 2012, in Tunis.

Categories: Tunisia, African Legal Support Facility

Between 24 and 25 November, the African Development Bank (AfDB) hosted an Africa-wide consultation to review the first External Assessment of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI).

Categories: Tunisia, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative