Events Calendar
- From: 06/06/2011
- To: 10/06/2011
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Le saviez-vous ? Plus d'un quart des forêts tropicales du monde se trouvent en Afrique. La forêt équatoriale du Bassin du Congo est la deuxième au monde, en termes de superficie, après le bassin amazonien. Elle constitue l’écosystème le plus riche de la région et abrite plus de la moitié des plantes et des animaux sauvages du continent. Elle s’étale sur plusieurs pays d’Afrique centrale (Cameroun, Gabon, Rep. Centrafricaine, Congo-Brazza-ville et R.D. du Congo).
Categories: Climate Change, Congo Basin Forest Fund
- Date: 25/05/2011
Africans in Africa and all over the world will celebrate Africa Day on Wednesday 25 May, and the African Development Bank – “Africa’s Bank” ever since the days of independence in the 1960s – will be joining in the celebrations.
Categories: Human and Social Development
- Date: 12/05/2011 16:00
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
« La Tunisie post-révolution, défis et perspectives économiques ». Tel est l’intitulé du débat organisé par la BAD, le 12 mai 2011, à Tunis. L’objectif de cet évènement était de lancer une discussion de haut niveau entre les experts de la Banque, des acteurs importants de l’économie tunisienne, le monde de la recherche et de l’entreprise ainsi que la société civile.
Categories: Tunisia
- From: 04/05/2011
- To: 06/05/2011
- Location: Cape Town, South Africa
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will participate in the World Economic Forum on Africa (WEFA), in Cape Town from 4-6 May, and will bring to bear its unique knowledge and experience of development issues on the continent.
Categories: South Africa, Regional Integration, President's Corner, Chief Economist's Office
- From: 28/04/2011
- To: 29/04/2011
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will hold its 2011 annual Partnerships Forum on 28-29 April 2011, at Hotel Ramada Plaza-Gammarth in Tunis, Tunisia, with a focus on regional integration. Participants at the forum will include representatives of bilateral and multilateral donors, the private sector, foundations and knowledge institutions.
Categories: Tunisia
- From: 18/04/2011
- To: 19/04/2011
- Location: Dakar, Senegal
The Dakar International Agriculture Forum, which took place from 18-19 April in Senegal, addressed the fundamental issues of global agriculture regulation and governance. The forum, initiated by President Abdoulaye Wade, comes a month before the next G20 meeting. According to its organizers, "the conclusions that emerge from the Forum will form, without doubt, an essential input to the current international negotiations in the G20, led by France.
Categories: Senegal, Agriculture & Agro-industries
- From: 04/04/2011
- To: 07/04/2011
- Location: Cape Town, South Africa
A tripartite conference on domestic resource mobilization took place this week in Cape Town, South Africa, where participants are sharing experiences in taxation and the role it plays in the economic growth and development of Korea.
Categories: Sector Operations
- From: 24/03/2011
- To: 26/03/2011
- Location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) will organize a workshop to review Technical and Vocational Skills Development (TVSD) initiatives and experiences in Africa, from March 24-26, in Ouagadougou. The workshop will guide preparations of studies on TVSD for the 2011 ADEA Triennial, which will take place from 27 November to 2 December 2011 in the Burkinabe capital.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Education
- 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.
- From: 21/03/2011
- To: 22/03/2011
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
The Bank is committed to Africa’s transformation to a green economy. To this end, the Bank will from 21-22 March 2011, host an international seminar on strategic environment and social assessments (SESA). The seminar aims at deepening the AfDB’s implementation of more environmentally and socially sustainable projects and programmes. Coodinated by the Compliance and Safeguards Division, the seminar will bring together at Hotel Sharaton, Tunis, leading international agencies involved in implementing strategic environmental and social assessments.
Categories: Tunisia, Quality Assurance & Results, Quality Assurance & Results Dept (OPQR)
