News & Events
21/12/2011 - The African Development Bank Group’s board of directors has approved a USD15.6 million grant from its concessionary lending arm, the African Development Fund (ADF) to help strengthen the capacity of African Virtual University (AVU).
Categories: Education, Human and Social Development
21/11/2011 - On 12 November 2011, the African Development Bank’s (AfDB)’s Human Development Department organized a meeting with members of the Association of African Students and Trainees in Tunisia to listen to their views on the Joint AU/ILO/UNECA/AfDB’s Initiative on Youth Employment in Africa.
Categories: Tunisia, Human and Social Development
16/11/2011 - Africa’s population is ageing, just like in the rest of the world, but the continent’s governments are badly equipped to handle the growing number of older people.
Categories: Human and Social Development, Health, Chief Economist's Office
06/11/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) lent a strong voice to the international dialogue on health and development at the recent launch of the Rotterdam Global Health Initiative. The forum, whose theme was "World Health Stage: Imagining Global Health Anew," brought together renowned health and development professionals from around the world, interested in promoting new ways of thinking through global health challenges and finding new solutions to the gaps that still exist in health and health care.
Categories: Netherlands, Health, Human and Social Development
28/10/2011 - La croissance démographique a une influence avérée sur la disponibilité alimentaire en Afrique. Cet impact peut être d’autant plus préjudiciable que la population de l’Afrique va atteindre le chiffre de 2 milliards d’individus en 2050. C’est ce qu’a souligné, le 28 octobre à Addis-Abeba, Kevin Thomas, maître de conférence à l’Université de Pennsylvanie.
Categories: Ethiopia, Human and Social Development, Climate Change, Food Production
27/10/2011 - Le second exposé de la session a porté sur « capital social et volonté de payer pour les biens environnementaux dans les pays africains ». Cette analyse stratégique permet de savoir s’il existe chez les citoyens des dispositions à payer pour les dommages causés sur l’environnement.
Categories: Ethiopia, Human and Social Development
27/10/2011 - African governments must step up investments in education to build capable human resources that will contribute to sustainable structural transformation of their economies, experts at the ongoing African Economic Conference cautioned on Wednesday in Addis Ababa.
Categories: Ethiopia, Climate Change, Human and Social Development
19/10/2011 - Participants gathered at the Carnegie Mellon University in Rwanda to celebrate a unique tripartite partnership between the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Government of Rwanda and Carnegie Mellon University and the planned opening of a Carnegie Mellon Campus in Rwanda in January 2012.
Categories: Rwanda, Education, Human and Social Development, Information & Communication Technology
- From: 16/10/2011
- To: 17/10/2011
On 16 and 17 October 2011, the international community will mark two special days that are at the core of the work of the African Development Bank
Categories: Food Production, Poverty Reduction, Human and Social Development
- From: 08/11/2011
- To: 09/11/2011
- Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Several Heads of State and Government will participate in a High-Level event on Post-Conflict Peace-building: the Experience of Rwanda, to be held in Kigali on the 8th and 9th of November, 2011.
Categories: Rwanda, Human and Social Development
