#AfDB held talks with Nigeria Minister of Finance & Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Honorable Wale Edun, during #SpringMeetings2024 . Our African Development Bank Group delegation included Senior Vice President Swazi Tshabalala, Vice President & Chief Economist Prof. Kevin Chika URAMA, and other senior staff.

A $660k+ grant from the Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative - an #Africa -wide initiative hosted by African Development Bank Group - helps Dr. Cédric OUANEKPONE, others provide better health, education, water & sanitation-related services in Central African Republic.🏥🩻🚰🧑🏾‍🏫
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#SpringMeetings : U.S.-Africa Business Center's 'Enabling Ecosystems' side event centered on financial innovation to drive sustainable #agriculture in Africa. #AfDB innovations develop, sustain, de-risk agriculture.
See how our #ADRiFi program helps Gambian farmers: x.com/AfDB_Group/sta…

Insightful discussion at the Bundesentwicklungsministerium #SpringMeetings side event on “linking adaptive social protection and #climate financing.” #AfDB adopts an integrated approach to support social protection by embedding it as part of our overall lending in sectors like health and agriculture

At a #SpringMeetings “Strengthening Financial Preparedness to Shocks' session convening Ministers of Finance of Eastern & Southern Africa, I joined Victoria Kwakwa, World Bank VP, East & Southern Africa to sign a letter of intent to collaborate on #climate , disaster risk finance.

Togo was the latest stop in the African Development Bank Group & AfricanGuaranteeFund co-organized #AFAWA Finance Series. Teams promoted understanding of financing needs of Togolese women entrepreneurs - and helped debunk the myth that #Africa 's women-run companies are risky ventures.
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On #WorldHealthDay , we celebrate those improving health service access in #Africa .
Mary Yeboah Asantewaa is applying her African Development Bank Group 財務省 Japan Africa Dream Scholarship-supported education to her job at SORA Technology to enhance health surveillance. afdb.org/en/news-and-ev…

#AfDB 's Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa ( #AFAWA ) initiative Women Entrepreneurship Enablers program provided 5,000+ women entrepreneurs with tools to be more 'bankable.' Program alumna Quinter Omari tells us how she's putting tools to use.
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This month, in our LinkedIn newsletter, we recap our International Women's Month activities, showcasing our commitment to #InvestingInWomen with inspiring stories and updates on our initiatives and partnerships. READ it now: bit.ly/3vEwEQv

« À l’époque des « Nana Benz » L’initiative #AFAWA n’existait pas, sinon elles seraient certainement dans le classement Forbes, parmi les plus grandes fortunes du monde » selon Wilfrid ABIOLA pour souligner l’importance du soutien financier aux femmes, acteurs clés de l’économie

#FeedAfrica : Government video of wheat harvesting in Jigawa State, Nigeria, where African Development Bank Group's African Emergency Food Production Facility (AEFPF) supports the Government to provide seed & fertilizer for 40,000 hectares of crops. #AEFPF supports 120,000ha in 15 Nigerian States.

After drought devastated crops & food supply in Madina Angaleh village, where most residents are farmers, The Gambia's participation in the African Development Bank Group Africa Disaster Risk Financing program with African Risk Capacity Group helped put food on the tables and livestock in the barns.
#ADRiFi 📽️📸👇

Thanks to $2m trade credit guarantee program, farmer Sandrine Assi, doesn’t worry about fertilizer costs. Via the program, African Development Bank Group’s Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism + partners share transactional credit risk with suppliers: bit.ly/3P9zS5m #InvestingInWomen

The GAFSP annual portfolio review meeting, happening in The Gambia this year , started yesterday with a field visit at the Kalagie vegetable women garden.

Nigerian fashion entrepreneur and CEO of Madame Coquette, haowa bello, shares her business story and encourages women to live up to their full potential despite any gender pay and financing gaps that exist.

Listen to the full #AfDBPodcast : bit.ly/47woKpw #IWD2024

The African Development Bank Group Japan Africa Dream Scholarship program, financed by 財務省, invests in promising African students at partner universities in Africa and Japan. On #IWD2024 , a program alumna in Ghana details the impact of her 🎓experience on her career.
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#IWD2024 : We hear talk about making Africa’s women entrepreneurs more “bankable” – AFAWA is delivering on that. I believe AFAWA’s investment in incentives and capacity-building tools to make financial institutions more “woman-able” will continue to accelerate Africa’s progress.👇

Business Bootcamp for African Women #Entrepreneurs

📅 8 March 2024
⏰ 10:00 am UTC
📍 Virtual

Hosted by African Development Bank Group’s Gender, Women and Civil Society Dept with the #Japan Policy and Human Resources Development Grant.

Info: bit.ly/3V74f02  #IWD2024
#InvestingInWomen