African Ministers of Labour and Employment launched the Joint Youth Employment Initiative during the 9th Ordinary Session of the AU Labour and Social Affairs Commission in Addis-Ababa in April 2013. Later that year, in September in Addis-Ababa, four partner organizations signed a Letter of Intent...

Recent political and social developments in Morocco reveal the importance of the social dimension in the Government’s policies. With the African Development Bank’s support, the Government of Morocco has been engaged in large-scale social projects since 2005, including the Initiative for...

In recent years Africa has undergone an economic transformation characterized by continuous growth, an emerging middle class, a demographic dividend, technology takeoff and the prospects of prosperity and innovation. But with rising urbanization, an epidemiological transition, and a growing and...

Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals in Africa requires training a dynamic and skilled health workforce. Most African countries suffer from considerable underfunding of the health sector, along with critical health workforce shortages, poor distribution and inadequate...

Health professionals are increasingly accountable for the way they use resources, the services they provide to people and, more generally, the results they deliver. In the wake of the Arab Spring and the progress of democracy across Africa, citizens’ voices are amplifying this trend. In response...

Spurred by technological innovation, a rapid information and communication revolution is taking place in Africa, especially in mobile technology, cloud computing, biotechnology and e-governance. From 2008 to 2010, most countries in Africa doubled or tripled their international bandwidth capacity...

For decades Tunisia has been one of Africa’s best performers in macroeconomic and social policies. But the social unrest and political turmoil that engulfed the country in January 2011 showed that, despite its comparative economic success, several key social and development challenges...

Africa’s pharmaceutical industry has great potential for boosting economic growth and creating jobs. Given current sustained and rapid economic growth, the African pharmaceutical industry, like that of other emerging markets, is expected to grow tremendously in the coming years. “Pharmerging...

Florence Limbio, Minister of the Economy, Planning, Cooperation and Development for the Central African Republic, called for the development of a new plan, under which her country and its multilateral partners – including the African Development Bank (AfDB) – focus on key priorities and add fresh...