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Conférence économique africaine 2019 - A Sharm el-Cheikh, l’emploi et le développement des capacités des jeunes africains, au cœur des débats
03-Dec-2019 - Plus de 350 parties prenantes convergent vers Charm el-Cheikh en Égypte, pour participer à la Conférence économique africaine (AEC) de 2019 qui porte cette année, sur les questions liées à l’emploi, à la compétence et au développement des capacités des jeunes africains.
2019 African Economic Conference: A clarion call for bolder action to tackle Africa’s youth jobs crisis
02-Dec-2019 - The 2019 African Economic Conference (AEC) opened in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh on Monday with a call on African policymakers to take bold steps to tackle red-tape and high startup costs in order to create decent and well-paying jobs for the continent’s youth. Addressing the opening plenary of the three-day conference, Egypt’s Minister of Investment and International Cooperation, Sahar Nasr said the conference provided a critical platform to address the challenges of jobs for the youth on the continent.Johannesburg Stock Exchange, allies, join hands with African Development Bank to spur cross-border investments in Africa
29-Nov-2019 - The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), working with seven African exchanges, the African Development Bank and the African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) hosted the African Exchange Linkage Project (AELP) Engagement Forum, designed to bolster investments into the continent.
Hola, Madrid! African Development Bank takes the continent’s climate agenda to COP25 in Spain
29-Nov-2019 - The African Development Bank will on Monday kick off a campaign to present the continent’s case at the world’s leading climate change conference.Guinea-Bissau: African Development Bank presents the Lusophone Compact to private sector at Economic Forum
29-Nov-2019 - The African Development Bank presented the Lusophone Compact to the private sector in Guinea-Bissau last month, during an event at the national Economic Forum. The Lusophone Compact, a financing platform involving the African Development Bank, Portugal, and the six Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa (PALOPs), provides risk mitigation, investment products and technical assistance to accelerate private sector development in Lusophone African countries (Angola, Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and...Nigeria: African Development Bank approves $210 million financing for Transmission Expansion Project
29-Nov-2019 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a $210 million financing package to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for the Nigeria Transmission Expansion Project (NTEP1), which seeks to rehabilitate and upgrade the nation’s power lines and improve distribution and supply.Maroc : la Banque africaine de développement mobilise 100 millions d’euros en faveur du Fonds d’équipement communal pour renforcer l’attractivité des territoires et consolider la dynamique d’industrialisation
29-Nov-2019 - Le Conseil d'administration de la Banque africaine de développement a approuvé, ce jeudi, une ligne de crédit de 100 millions d’euros en faveur du Fonds d’équipement communal (FEC) afin de financer de nouveaux projets d’investissement et d’équipements collectifs au Maroc. Ces projets portés par les collectivités locales sont destinés à améliorer la qualité des services publics, notamment dans les zones rurales, et à développer de nouvelles activités économiques et industrielles au niveau local.Conférence sur la politique foncière en Afrique : pour un accès équitable et une utilisation efficace et durable des terres pour les jeunes.
29-Nov-2019 - Des spécialistes des questions liées à la jeunesse et au genre ont exploré, ce mercredi, différentes approches pour garantir une gouvernance foncière responsable, prenant en compte les jeunes, et sensible au genre dans la transparence de gestion, lors d’une séance interactive de la 3ème Conférence sur la politique foncière en Afrique, qui se tient cette semaine à Abidjan.Conférence sur la politique foncière en Afrique : créer les conditions favorables à un meilleur cadre institutionnel
27-Nov-2019 - Les États du continent africain doivent renforcer leurs institutions et financer la gouvernance foncière en Afrique : cette thématique était au cœur des débats d’une session organisée, ce mardi 26 novembre, à la 3ème édition de la Conférence sur la politique foncière en Afrique, qui se tient actuellement à Abidjan, capitale de la Côte d’Ivoire.
2019 Global Gender Summit marks concrete gains and actionable goals to surge ahead on gender equality
27-Nov-2019 - Highlights of the Summit include the launch of:
Land policy in Africa: Expert panel calls for "fair, efficient land management"
27-Nov-2019 - Experts attending this year’s conference on Land Policy in African have called for fair and efficient land management to support moves to transform the continent. The third edition of the conference on Land Policy in Africa, currently underway in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan is co-organized by the African Union, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Development Bank.Conference on Land Policy in Africa: re-thinking land reform
26-Nov-2019 - Improving the agrarian system to ensure a decent livelihood for small farmers was the focus of the deliberations during a session entitled “Re-thinking land reform in Africa: New ideas, possibilities and challenges” at the 3rd Conference on Land Policy in Africa taking place in Abidjan. As Horman Chitongue, Professor at University of Cape Town, South Africa, stated: “It’s a question of guaranteeing the means for people working the land to have a livelihood from it, so that these farmers can not only work, but actually live from their work.”
2019 Global Gender Summit: African Development Bank, partners officially launch AFAWA Risk Sharing Facility
26-Nov-2019 - The African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) programme gained momentum with significant support from commercial banks and a $1 million commitment from the government of Rwanda. The Bank and partners officially launched AFAWA Risk Sharing Facility, on Monday, at a press conference held during the 2019 Global Gender Summit currently underway in Kigali, Rwanda.Sommet mondial sur le genre : pour des politiques macroéconomiques favorables à l’autonomisation des femmes en Afrique
26-Nov-2019 - Un panel consacré aux politiques macroéconomiques s’est tenu ce mardi au Sommet mondial sur le genre, co-organisé par la Banque africaine de développement, le gouvernement du Rwanda et des partenaires de développement. L’objectif de la séance, modérée par Basil Jones, coordonnateur de politique et programme genre à la Banque, était d’évaluer la profondeur des politiques actuelles et d’interroger leur capacité à réaliser pleinement l’autonomisation des femmes.
2019 Global Gender Summit: to achieve new impetus towards gender parity, all stakeholders need to act in five priority areas
26-Nov-2019 - Africa needs new impetus in its journey towards gender parity. Making progress on any single indicator of gender inequality is likely to require systematic action on a range of indicators by governments, companies, communities, and individual men and women. A new McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report prepared with McKinsey & Company, Africa, The power of parity: Advancing women’s equality in Africa finds that accelerating progress towards parity could boost African economies by the equivalent of 10 percent of their collective GDP by 2025.
“Women are an excellent investment”: finance leaders call for increased support for women in business
26-Nov-2019 - Leaders from multilateral development banks, financial institutions and the private sector called on peers to dispel myths about women being too “high risk” for financing - and to offer more financial services for women in business to close the gender finance gap. “We know that women are a good bet. We know they pay back. We know they run excellent businesses – and yet they are not getting financed,” said Dr Jennifer Blanke, African Development Bank Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development.African Development Bank approves $400 million to support Mozambique’s ambition to become global LNG player
26-Nov-2019 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Thursday approved a long-term Senior Loan of $400 million to support the building of an integrated Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant, including a liquifaction facility in Mozambique. The Mozambique LNG Area 1 Project, ranked Africa’s single largest Foreign Direct Investment to date, comprises a global team of energy developers and operators, led by Total alongside Mitsui, Oil India, ONGC Videsh Limited, Bharat Petroleum, PTT Exploration, as well as Mozambique’s national oil and...
First ladies panel seeks urgent policies to translate Africa’s demographic dividend into viable potential
26-Nov-2019 - “Investments in gender equality are critical to realizing demographic dividend, but we need to ensure that women have the tools to overcome the barriers they face,” First Lady of Rwanda, Jeannette Kagame told participants at a panel at the Global Gender Summit in Kigali on Monday. The panel, made up of First Ladies Kagame, Margaret Kenyatta, ministers and development experts, observed that too many women and girls still face barriers to basic rights, particularly access to labour market opportunities.