The African Water Facility has offered a €1.2 million grant to the Kisumu Water and Sewage Company (KIWASCO) to support an innovative project that will provide sanitation services for residents in the Manyatta settlement in Kisumu, Kenya, while creating business through the...

“It is exactly this kind of innovative irrigation system that will ensure Zambians are part of the green and inclusive growth of Africa,” Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, the African Development Bank’s Special Envoy on Gender, stated on Wednesday, July 23 at the site of one the Bank’s agricultural...

The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, was received Monday, July 28 by the President of the Republic of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, at the Palácio da Cidade Alta in Luanda, where discussions focused on expanding cooperation between the AfDB and the Angolan...

The Inter-Country Quality Node on Technical and Vocational Skills Development (ICQN-TVSD), which is steered by Moussa Dosso, Minister of State of Côte d’Ivoire in partnership with ADEA, will hold a high-level Ministerial Conference on “Providing Africa’s Youth with Skills and Training for Jobs” in...

Key messages • The private sector was the main source of employment absorption, while the public sector witnessed declines in employment in almost all activities. MSEs represent around 96% of all enterprises in Egypt, and employ around 70% of the private non-agricultural workers. Within those...

In its latest economic brief, the AfDB analyses employment and productivity dynamics in Egypt. The brief states that the private sector has been the main provider of jobs, while the public sector lost jobs in almost all activities in the last decade. Small businesses...

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace convened a two-day seminar at the Pontifical Academy of Science inside the Vatican, on 11-12 July 2014, to discuss a human-centered approach to resolving  the challenges of poverty and inequality that afflict many parts of the global economy, in...