News & Events
05/04/2013 - The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Board of Executive Directors on April 3, 2013 approved an African Development Fund (ADF) grant of USD $ 25.7 million and an ADF loan of USD 12.6 million for a Skills, Employability and Entrepreneurship Program (SEEP) in Rwanda.
Categories: Rwanda, Economic & Financial Governance, Human and Social Development, Youth
27/03/2013 - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), in partnership with the Office for Tunisians Abroad (OTE), have published a new study on employment opportunities for Tunisians in Libya.
Categories: Tunisia, Libya, Migration and Development Initiative, Human and Social Development, Youth
19/03/2013 - The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) organized on the 12th and 13th March in Rabat, Morocco, a regional conference on the employment of young graduates from institutions of higher education. The object of the conference was to rethink and lay down more efficient reform policies with regard to higher education in order to guarantee the possible employment of young graduates.
Categories: Morocco, Education, Youth, Human and Social Development
14/03/2013 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) approved on Wednesday, March 13, a loan in the amount of US $144.89 million in support of the Uganda road sector.
Categories: Uganda, Infrastructure, Transport, Youth, Human and Social Development
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
07/03/2013 - African Development Bank operations have had a profound impact on women’s lives in Africa. Several successful examples from various education, employment, microfinance, social protection and health projects indicate that women and girls have better access to services and opportunities that have led to reductions in gender disparities and improvements in gender outcomes including women’s participation and empowerment.
Categories: Gender, Education, Human and Social Development, Health, Youth
05/02/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) signed on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 an agreement to provide two sovereign-guaranteed multi-tranche lines of credit (LoCs) of respectively US $500 million to Bank of Industry (BOI) and of US $200 million to Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) in order to support the modernization and expansion of export-oriented small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The LoCs will allow local SMEs to be more competitive, scale up their operations and ultimately create more jobs in Nigeria.
Categories: Nigeria, Youth, Human and Social Development, Private Sector Development
18/01/2013 - On December 7, 2012, in a speech to the graduating class of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki thanked the African Development Bank (AfDB) for its continued support to the development of Kenya’s Education Sector.
Categories: Kenya, Human and Social Development, Youth, Education, Information & Communication Technology
11/01/2013 - Organizers, sponsors, partners and beneficiaries of the Souk At-Tanmia (Market for Development) pilot initiative came together on Thursday, January 10 in the Cité des Sciences in Tunis to celebrate the 71 new Tunisian entrepreneurs who have been selected to receive angel financing, technical assistance, coaching and mentoring throughout 2013.
Categories: Tunisia, Youth, Human and Social Development
11/01/2013 - Somen Debnath, a 29-year old Indian cyclist, presented his “Around the World Bicycle Tour for HIV/AIDS Awareness Program and Seminars on Indian Culture” on Thursday, January10, 2013 to African Development Bank staff in Tunis. Cycling from Morocco and Algeria, he just arrived in Tunisia where he intends to meet with schools, NGOs as well as the Tunisian President and Government officials representing Ministries of Education, Health, Youth, and Sports.
Categories: Youth, Human and Social Development, Health
