Press Releases
12/03/2013 - The African Development Bank is financing a ground-breaking initiative in Tunisia – Souk At-tanmia – with the goal to foster youth employment, particularly in disadvantaged regions that are struggling with high levels of unemployment in the aftermath of the revolution.
Categories: Tunisia, Gender, Human and Social Development, Youth
08/03/2013 - En ce jour de célébration des femmes, il est opportun de rappeler l’importance de leur rôle pour assurer l’avenir économique du continent africain. Car il est impossible, aujourd’hui, d’évoquer une Afrique prospère et égalitaire sans parler de leur pleine intégration sur le marché du travail.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Gender, Human and Social Development
11/10/2011 - The World Bank, in collaboration with the African Development Bank, held a seminar to disseminate the World Bank flagship Report on World Development 2012: Gender Equality and Development, and to hold consultation on another report on Gender Equality in Africa, particularly in the region of North Africa and Middle East.
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
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
- 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
14/05/2010 - President Kaberuka said: “I am delighted to make these appointments to key senior positions and to increase the number of women at senior levels, including the appointment of the first female Secretary General. I am particularly pleased that both Cecilia and Hela are internal promotions, demonstrating the development of talent within the Bank. I very much hope that they will be role models for the many younger staff who I know have great potential.
Categories: Gender
22/03/2010 - The first African Women Economic Summit in Nairobi was a real success. On the afternoon of the final day, the high level audience of 160 African and global decision-makers in the financial and political sectors, policy-makers, regulators, commercial banks, and prominent women entrepreneurs agreed on goals that will bring women centre stage in the financial sector. They pledged to drive change to include more women in finance.
Categories: Kenya, Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
19/03/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, and Mrs. Graça Machel, Founder of New Faces, New Voices (NFNV) on Friday in Nairobi, jointly launched the first “African Women’s Economic Summit” to ensure the inclusion of women in decisions that are shaping the global financial system.
Categories: Kenya, Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
19/03/2010 - 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. Today, Raila Odinga, the Right Honourable Prime Minister of Kenya opens the two days Summit at the Windsor Golf and Country Club in Nairobi, Kenya.
Categories: Kenya, Gender, African Women in Business Initiative
