News & Events
16/03/2010 - African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, and New Faces New Voices (NFNV) Founder, Graça Machel, have invited African and global leaders to Nairobi, Kenya, to the first African Women Economic Summit (AWES) which aims at integrating women in the brainstorming process on rebuilding the global financial system. The two-day event will be opened by the Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, on 19 March 2010.
Categories: Kenya, Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
16/03/2010 - Women have always played a pivotal role in the socio-economic development of Africa. As farmers, entrepreneurs, traders and innovators, they are key economic actors in the continent.
Categories: Kenya, Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
15/03/2010 - Global and African leaders are invited by the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, and Mrs. Graça Machel, Founder of New Faces, New Voices (NFNV) to the first “African Women’s Economic Summit” to ensure the inclusion of women in the decisions that are shaping the global financial system. On the 19th of March 2010, Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya will open the two day Summit at the Windsor Golf and Country Club in Nairobi, Kenya.
Categories: Kenya, Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
11/03/2010 - De manière générale, il reste beaucoup reste à faire pour une véritable égalité du genre, cependant, les réalisations de la BAD en matière d’éducation et de santé en Afrique et surtout ses actions en faveur des milieux ruraux ses dernières années en disent long.
Categories: Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
10/03/2010 - A l’instar de la communauté internationale, le Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a célébré, lundi 8 mars 2010 à Tunis, la journée internationale de la femme, avec la participation massive du personnel aux activités marquantes de cette cérémonie. Les différentes présentations qui ont ponctué la journée, ont souligné que l'égalité du genre est fondamentale pour réaliser la croissance économique et la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique.
Categories: Gender
09/03/2010 - The AfDB joined the international community to celebrate the International Women’s Day. As part of the event, the AfDB organized a major event in which its Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Nkosana Moyo, presided over the celebrations on behalf of the institution’s president Donald Kaberuka and distributed the President’s medals of award of excellence to recipients whose projects in the field, best carried out gender mainstreaming requirements during the past year.
Categories: Gender
08/03/2010 - Gender equality is fundamental for achieving economic growth and poverty reduction in Africa. It is essential for reaching the Millennium Development Goals as well. Most African countries are signatories to international and regional commitments to gender equality promoting more equally allocated work, education, resources, and control.
Categories: Gender
05/03/2010 - As we all know, this year marks the 15th Anniversary of the UN Conference on Women held in Beijing. Therefore, the Bank has prepared a series of events which will take place throughout the year. We have put together an interesting program for Monday afternoon, March 8th where we will have two guest speakers: Mrs. Marie Delphine Ndiaye, President of the Women Lawyers Association of Senegal who will do a presentation on women’s rights and economic empowerment.
Categories: Gender
05/03/2010 - As the Bank celebrates the International Women’s Day on Monday, 8 March 2010, AfDB’s web editorial team spoke with AfDB Financial Management Department (FFMA) Director, Kodeidja Diallo, to obtain her views on current conditions and perceptions of women in Africa and what the Bank is doing to help women take their rightful places in the African society. At the end of the interview, Mrs.Diallo gave a message of hope particularly to the majority of women who are not holding leadership positions, emphasizing that any of them can equally contribute to Africa’s future as long as they “aim at excellence in all their endeavors”.
Categories: Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
24/02/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, and Founder of New Faces, New Voices network (NFNV) Graca Machel, will co-host “The African Women Economic Summit” scheduled to take place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 19-20 March 2010 on the Theme: Investing differently in Women.
Categories: Tunisia, Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
