Past
- From: 25/07/2012
- To: 27/07/2012
- Location: Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala, Uganda
The African Development Institute of the African Development Bank, in partnership with the African Econometric Society (AES), the Bank of Uganda, Makerere University College of Business and Management Sciences (CoBAMS), and the Economic Policy Research Centre Uganda, is convening the 17th Annual Conference of the African Econometric Society (AES) at Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala, Uganda.
Categories: Uganda, Economic & Financial Governance
Pan-African Conference Seeks to Develop Regulatory Framework for Derivatives and Commodity Exchanges
- From: 25/07/2012
- To: 27/07/2012
- Location: Gaborone, Botswana
La Conférence panafricaine pour développer les cadres réglementaires des Bourses des dérivés et des matières premières a pris fin la semaine dernière à Gaborone (Botswana). Elle a réuni une centaine d’experts de haut niveau venant de tout le continent africain pour discuter, pendant trois jours, des voies et des moyens de développer les Bourses des produits dérivés et des matières premières en Afrique, à travers la mise à niveau du cadre réglementaire africain avec les normes internationales.
Categories: Botswana, Economic & Financial Governance
- Date: 16/07/2012
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
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
- Date: 15/07/2012
- Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
African leaders elected Mrs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as chairperson of the African Union Commission at the 19th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 15 July.
Categories: Ethiopia
- From: 12/07/2012
- To: 14/07/2012
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
The Second African Women’s Economic Summit, currently under way in Lagos, is a “summit of action”, said the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, when he addressed the conference on its opening day, 12 July.
Categories: Nigeria, Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
- Date: 09/07/2012
- Location: Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is organizing a High Level Policy Dialogue Seminar on Youth Employment in Africa in Lusaka, Zambia, which will focus on the challenges and opportunities faced by the following countries in the Southern Africa region: Angola, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique and Zambia.
Categories: Zambia, Angola, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Youth, Human and Social Development
- Date: 06/07/2012
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
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
- From: 05/07/2012
- To: 06/07/2012
- Location: Dakar, Senegal
The Bank, through the natural resources and environment management, and the compliance and safeguard divisions, is holding two regional workshops in Dakar, Senegal (July 5-6, 2012) for francophone participants and Nairobi, Kenya (July 12-13, 2012) for Anglophone participants. Serving as a platform to share experiences and lessons learned in implementing Environmental and Social Management Plans, the workshop will bring together eighty-five (85) environmental and social specialists implementing agriculture and natural resources management projects in an effort to enhance their capacity in implementing ESMPs.
Categories: Senegal, Kenya, Environment, Agriculture & Agro-industries
- From: 04/07/2012
- To: 05/07/2012
- Location: Tunis, 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
24/04/2012 - The African Development Bank is organizing a workshop on 23 May to follow up from the recommendations of the Science, Technology and Innovation in Action parallel session on “eLearning, mLearning, eHealth and mHealth” stemming from the 1st Africa Forum on Science Technology and Innovation (STI).
Categories: Information & Communication Technology, Human and Social Development

