News & Events
- 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.
09/03/2011 - « La BAD accorde à présent la priorité au développement des compétences et des capacités de haut niveau surtout dans les domaines scientifiques et technologiques, afin de permettre aux pays africains d’atteindre progressivement l’économie du savoir, d’accroître leur compétitivité, de promouvoir ainsi la croissance et de lutter contre la pauvreté, en mettant un accent particulier sur la participation des femmes. » a souligné Agnès Soucat, à l’occasion de la célébration du centenaire de la Journée internationale des femmes.
Categories: Gender
08/03/2011 - The AfDB Women’s Network launched a new Scholarship Fund for women’s education on Tuesday in Tunis. This initiative was to mark the 100th anniversary of the International Women's Day, organized this year on the theme, “Equal Access to education, Training, Science and Technology: Pathway to Decent Work for Women”. The Bank also held discussions with women who are exemplary in their field of expertise. Tunisia, host country to the AfDB’s Temporary Relocation Agency, maintains an impressive 56% female students enrolled in science subjects.
Categories: Gender
08/03/2011 - the centenary of the International Women’s Day (IWD) celebrations is a great day for women worldwide. It is also a great day for women in the African Development Bank (AfDB), who commemorated the day with the establishment of a scholarship fund to assist girls’ education.
Categories: Gender
08/03/2011 - A l’instar de toutes les organisations internationales, le Groupe de la BAD va célébrer, le 8 mars 2011, à Tunis et dans ses 26 bureaux régionaux, la journée internationale de la femme. Ce 8 mars marque également le centenaire de cette commémoration. Cette journée permet de faire le point sur les progrès réalisés par les femmes dans tous les coins du monde et se concentre sur ce qui peut encore être fait afin d'apporter une plus grande égalité et justice pour tous.
Categories: Gender
04/03/2011 - To become more active and able to deal effectively with climate change, women need to be empowered and granted greater access to education, extension services and modern technologies, said Osman-Elasha Balgis in an interview on the occasion marking 100 years of International Women’s Day. She also affirmed that emphasis on women’s education, including incentives and scholarships in science is important for sustainable provision of qualified women candidates required to occupy key positions and reduce the existing gap in public and private sector jobs.
Categories: Climate Change, Gender, Environment
- 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
29/10/2010 - One of the landmarks of the Fifth African Economic Conference held from October 27-29, 2010 in Tunis, Tunisia was the joint-launch by AfDB, UNDP and IDEP of the Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative (GEPMI-Africa). After the launch on October 28, Ms Winnie Byanyima, UNDP Gender Team Director, who was instrumental in the setting up GEPMI provided additional perspectives on the initiative.
28/10/2010 - Four development institutions including the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) and the Makerere University, Kampala (MUK), on Wednesday October 27, 2010 in Tunis, jointly launched the Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative (GEPMI-Africa).
25/10/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) is considering launching a global competition aimed at identifying women’s projects and women-owned small businesses which have proved to be most innovative within Africa’s civil society.
Categories: Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
