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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
- 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
- From: 22/03/2011
- To: 24/03/2011
- Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Increasing women’s access to infrastructure services (energy, transport, water and irrigation), is crucial for women’s economic empowerment and well-being. In 2007 the Multilateral Development Banks Working Group on Gender agreed to jointly enhance the efforts to mainstream a gender perspective into their respective operations in these sectors. To this end it initiated regional workshops to build the capacity of sector experts in the client countries and respective institutions.
- Date: 08/03/2011
The African Development Bank (AfDB) celebrated the centenary of International Women's Day on 8 March 2011 in Tunis and the field offices, with the active participation of Ms. Lalla Ben Barka, Director General Assistant UNESCO, and Zohra Ben Lakhdar, physics professor at Tunis University and winner of the 2005 L'Oreal UNESCO Women in Science.
Categories: Gender
- From: 19/10/2010
- To: 23/10/2010
- Location: Florence, Italy
Women entrepreneurs constitute one of the key drivers of Africa’s sustainable growth. As Africa’s lead development partner, the AfDB actively supports women entrepreneurs. Under the AWIB (African Women in Business) Initiative, Bank support to the World Association of Women Entrepreneur’s (FCEM) fifty-eighth congress aims at strengthening cooperation and business partnerships between African women entrepreneurs and global women business leaders.
Categories: Italy, Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
- From: 19/03/2010
- To: 20/03/2010
- Location: The Windsor Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
The Africa Women’s Economic Summit will: Identify the issues that limit women’s access to financial products and services. Explore the business opportunities and innovations to expand the reach and scale of financial services to women at all income levels.
Categories: Kenya, Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
22/03/2011 - Today, H.E. Sufian Ahmed, Minister of Finance and Economic Development of Ethiopia, will lead the opening ceremony of a workshop on “Mainstreaming Gender Equality in the Infrastructure Sectors in Africa.” The Workshop will take place at the Hilton Hotel from March 22 to 24, 2011. The Workshop focuses on four key infrastructure sectors which are essential for growth and economic development: energy, irrigation, water and sanitation, and transport.
Categories: Gender
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