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    • The African Development Bank had several productive engagements around its strategic priorities at the just concluded 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings in New York
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77th United Nations General Assembly meetings stress key African Development Bank priorities: climate finance, job creation, and food insecurity

African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina led the bank’s delegation to the meetings

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) had several productive engagements around its strategic priorities at the just concluded 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings in New York. Meeting highlights included an urgent call for increased financing to mitigate the effects of climate change and food insecurity. African Development Bank Group…

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    • Participants at the recent Africa Co-Guarantee Platform meeting held in Cairo
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Africa Co-Guarantee Platform Partners Reaffirm Commitment to Catalyzing Trade and Investment

The partners pledged to extend direct transaction support for specific projects, including infrastructure development and optimizing balance sheets by sharing risk

Amid rising urgency for instruments to de-risk investment across Africa, the Africa Co-Guarantee Platform’s (https://bit.ly/3BViQAd) (CGP) six partners have affirmed commitments to better leverage guarantee and insurance products, resulting in more trade and investment across Africa.  The partners pledged to extend direct transaction support for specific projects, including infrastructure development and…

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    • From left to right: Ahmed Attout of the African Development Bank, and Lassina Fofana of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations of Côte d'Ivoire signing a grant agreement
    • Ahmed Attout (left), of the African Development Bank Group and Lassina Fofana of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations of Côte d'Ivoire at the signing of a grant agreement between the two entities
    • Ahmed Attout and Lassina Fofana and their respective delegations at the signing of a grant agreement for the CDC-Côte d'Ivoire
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Côte d’Ivoire: African Development Bank signs grant agreement for $400,000 with Caisse des dépôts to support micro-enterprises

The grant will be sourced from the Capital Markets Development Trust Fund, a multi-donor fund administered by the African Development Bank

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has signed a grant agreement for $400,000 with the Caisse des dépôts et consignations of Côte d'Ivoire (CDC-CI). The funds will support CDC-CI to accelerate its activities to assist Ivorian small and medium-sized enterprises. The agreement was signed on 27 September 2022 in Abidjan. CDC-CI…

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    • Young entrepreneurs who participated in a capacity building session received certificates
    • A woman entrepreneur receives her certificate after participating in an entrepreneurial capacity building session
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Madagascar: Notice to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises of second call for applications for the “Business Linkage Program"

By mid-October 2022, 150 small and medium-sized enterprises will be selected to participate

It has been three years since the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) launched a programme in Madagascar to support the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in the country. Objectives: To enable them to achieve economies of scale and create better employment opportunities for women and young people in key sectors…

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    • AfDB President's Visit to New York: Partnering for Action - Implementation of the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions in the Complex Setting of Overlapping Crises
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Create quality jobs and provide social protection, urges United Nations Secretary-General

“At the African Development Bank, we have taken a proactive job, jobs, jobs approach”—Dr. Adesina

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged governments across the world to quickly invest in quality job creation the and the provision of social protection for those without coverage. Guterres was speaking at a high-level session to discuss the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions (https://bit.ly/3rfWGUk) initiative…

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    • African Development Bank Director General for Central Africa, Serge N'Guessan (left), and Cameroon's Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Alamine Ousman Mey, shake hands at the loan signing ceremony
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Cameroon: New African Development Bank Funds to Develop the Port Sector and Sustainable Urban Sanitation

The African Development Bank's Director General for Central Africa, Serge N'Guessan, and Alamine Ousman Mey, Cameroon's Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development signed the loan agreements for both projects

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has provided new funding for two ongoing major projects in Cameroon: the Develop Access Roads to the Industrial and Port Area of Kribi Project (PARZIK) (https://bit.ly/3E0Ijex) and the Yaoundé City Sustainable Enhanced Drainage and Sanitation Project (PCADY) (https://bit.ly/3E0Is1z). The African Development Bank's Director General…

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    • Officials representing 11 African cities at a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen during a four-day study visit to Denmark and Sweden.
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African Development Bank Sponsors Study Visit to Two Scandinavian Cities for Municipal Officials of 11 African Cities

The delegation is conducting field visits and taking part in presentations on water management, waste treatment and e-mobility

Representatives of 11 African cities have begun a visit to two Scandinavian cities to learn about people-centred solutions to urban planning and development under a trip sponsored by the Urban and Municipal Development Fund (https://bit.ly/3fdZiPT). The Fund is hosted by the African Development Bank (https://www.AfDB.org). The 4-day trip to Copenhagen…

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    • Road networks in six new municipalities will undergo new construction and upgrading.
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Senegal: African Development Bank Provides €29 Million for Development of Road Networks 6 Communes

The funds will support the construction of 28 kilometers of urban roads in asphalt concrete, paving stones and concrete

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a €28.88 loan for improvements to the road and transport network linking six Senegalese municipalities.  The loan was approved on 20 September 2022. The financing will be sourced from savings from the Senegal Cities Modernisation Programme (https://bit.ly/3UJA5xg).…

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    • The African Development Bank's Covid-19 Off-Grid Recovery Platform has received $20 million in concessional investment to support rollout of its second phase
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Global Environment Facility, African Development Bank’s Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) provide $20 million to expand Covid-19 Off-Grid Recovery Platform

The Covid-19 Off-Grid Recovery Platform is a blended finance initiative to unlock private capital for energy access companies to mitigate the negative impacts of the pandemic

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group  (https://www.AfDB.org) has approved a $20 million concessional investment to support the second phase of the Covid-19 Off-Grid Recovery Platform (CRP) (https://bit.ly/3qXLziV). The CRP is a blended finance initiative to unlock private capital for energy access companies to mitigate the negative impacts…

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No Time to Waste. Ministerial Meeting Calls for Urgent Financing for Countries Most Vulnerable to Climate Change

The top-level meeting wants climate and nature objectives mainstreamed across financial and economic policy as well as a significant action point to be presented at COP27 in November

With barely two months to go before the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, Africa and other developing parts of the world that bear the severest brunt of climate change are warning against turning it into a mere talking shop of promises. African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi…