Events Calendar

Africa’s Structural Transformation is highly dependent on a strong and competitive private sector. Boosting African private sector entails providing support in improving the business environment and access to market opportunities; providing financing, business assistance and advisory services to companies; strengthening institutional frameworks and promoting commerce and the integration of regional markets.

Categories: Morocco, Private Sector Development, Partnerships, Structural Transformation

Panelists of a high-level roundtable, featuring leading policy-makers, technologists and investors from across Africa, will discuss how to create an enabling environment to realize the potential of the innovation and technological shifts occurring in Africa. Taking place at the African Development Bank Annual Meetings on May 28 in Marrakech, the event shall also see finalists from the Meet the Lions entrepreneurs competition showcase their work.

Categories: Morocco, Information & Communication Technology, Human Capital Development

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 Capital Development, Economic & Financial Governance

The African Development Bank is organizing on 10 May, 2013 in Tunis the first edition of the “AfDB Gender Forum” to leverage the Bank’s advocacy on Gender Equality. The Forum will provide the opportunity for policy makers and development actors to exchange views on crucial steps and innovative approaches that need to be explored to transform the state of gender equality on the continent.

Categories: Tunisia, Gender

The 23rd World Economic Forum on Africa kicked off on Wednesday, May 8 on the theme “Delivering on Africa’s Promise”. The three-day event in Cape Town, South Africa, is expected to draw regional and global leaders from business, government and civil society to discuss the continent’s integration agenda and a renewed commitment to sustainable growth and development.

Categories: South Africa

From May 6 to 10, 2013, the African Development Bank is organizing a pan-African training workshop in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on derivatives and commodities markets for African regulators of derivatives and commodities exchanges.

Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Regional Integration

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 Capital Development, Economic & Financial Governance

Panelists of a high-level roundtable, featuring leading policy-makers, technologists and investors from across Africa, will discuss how to create an enabling environment to realize the potential of the innovation and technological shifts occurring in Africa. Taking place at the African Development Bank Annual Meetings on May 28 in Marrakech, the event shall also see finalists from the Meet the Lions entrepreneurs competition showcase their work.

Categories: Morocco, Information & Communication Technology, Human Capital Development

Africa’s Structural Transformation is highly dependent on a strong and competitive private sector. Boosting African private sector entails providing support in improving the business environment and access to market opportunities; providing financing, business assistance and advisory services to companies; strengthening institutional frameworks and promoting commerce and the integration of regional markets.

Categories: Morocco, Private Sector Development, Partnerships, Structural Transformation

The African Development Bank is organizing on 10 May, 2013 in Tunis the first edition of the “AfDB Gender Forum” to leverage the Bank’s advocacy on Gender Equality. The Forum will provide the opportunity for policy makers and development actors to exchange views on crucial steps and innovative approaches that need to be explored to transform the state of gender equality on the continent.

Categories: Tunisia, Gender

The 23rd World Economic Forum on Africa kicked off on Wednesday, May 8 on the theme “Delivering on Africa’s Promise”. The three-day event in Cape Town, South Africa, is expected to draw regional and global leaders from business, government and civil society to discuss the continent’s integration agenda and a renewed commitment to sustainable growth and development.

Categories: South Africa

From May 6 to 10, 2013, the African Development Bank is organizing a pan-African training workshop in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on derivatives and commodities markets for African regulators of derivatives and commodities exchanges.

Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Regional Integration

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

“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 Capital Development

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

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 Capital Development, Health