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#IWD2024: Impactful investment: African Development Bank support shapes scholarship graduate career in drone-enabled public health

The program aligns with the goal of the Bank’s Skills for Employability and Productivity in Africa, which is to increase innovation connected to industrialization and development needs

The African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) Japan Africa Dream Scholarship program invests in promising African students from Bank member countries at partner universities in Africa and Japan, financing their tuition, travel, and upkeep for post-graduate studies. The program aligns with the goal of the Bank’s Skills for Employability and Productivity in Africa,…

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    • (L-R) President, African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina and EkitiState Governor, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, during an official meeting with the Bank’s President in Lagos
    • Lamin Barrow, Director General, African Development Bank Nigeria Country Department (5th from left); Stanley George, Director, International Economic Relations Department, Federal Ministry of Finance ( 6th from left) and Akintunde Oyebode, Ekiti State Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development (7th from left), during EKZ loan negotiation agreement meeting at the Bank’s Office in Abuja, Nigeria
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Catalyzing Digital Innovation: African Development Bank commits $80 million to Ekiti Knowledge Zone Project in Nigeria

State-led pioneering special economic zone project, designed to foster linkages between educators, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and industries, all within one location

In the heart of Nigeria’s Ekiti State, a groundbreaking initiative is taking shape – the Ekiti Knowledge Zone (EKZ), a bold step to transform the region into a hub for digital innovation and knowledge economy. The African Development Bank has committed $80 million in loan financing for this state-led pioneering…

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Democratic Republic of Congo: African Development Bank projects returns thousands of children from cobalt mines to schools

The project has helped to extricate many Congolese children from artisanal cobalt mines and to train thousands of their young parents to become farmers

Launched in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, the Support Project for the Alternative Welfare of Children and Young People Involved in the Cobalt Supply Chain (https://apo-opa.co/3SvpVA4)(PABEA-Cobalt) is nearing the end, in December 2024, of its planned implementation. Funded to the tune of US$78 million by the African Development Fund…

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    • Students from Sophia University in Tokyo, visiting the Bank. They are here with the Bank's administrator for Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Austria and Saudi Arabia, Takaaki Nomoto (front middle).
    • The students had a rich interview with the administrator at the Bank for Japan, Takaaki Nomoto (at the end of the table on the right).
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After “Learn from Africa” visit, Japan Sophia University students call for stronger partnerships between Africa and Japan

The visit enabled the students to experience the continent first-hand

A cohort of 14 students from Tokyo’s Sophia University (https://apo-opa.info/45PdEMe) have ended a visit to the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) energised by the cross-cultural engagement and calling for deeper ties between Japan and Africa. Their visit to the group headquarters, on Thursday 7 September 2023, was facilitated through the “Learn…

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    • African Development Bank Group President, Akinwumi Adesina, calls on Oxford MBA graduating class to be change-makers
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African Development Bank Group President, Akinwumi Adesina, calls on Oxford MBA graduating class to be change-makers

Adesina called on the graduates to use the skills and knowledge they had acquired to address some of today’s most pressing global challenges

Graduating executive MBA students of Oxford University’s Saïd Business School received wise counsel from African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) President Dr Akinwumi Adesina on Friday. Delivering the business school’s 2023 commencement address, Adesina called on the graduates to use the skills and knowledge they had acquired to address some of today’s most…

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    • The present and the future belong to your generation, African Development Bank President tells 2023 graduating class of Calvin University
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The present and the future belong to your generation, African Development Bank President tells 2023 graduating class of Calvin University

Adesina is the first international guest to address the university’s Commencement event

African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) President Akinwumi A. Adesina has called on young university graduates to be instruments of change in a world beset by increasing socio-economic challenges. Delivering the keynote speech at America’s Calvin University Commencement ceremony, Dr. Adesina told the audience, including 700 graduates, “The world faces many simultaneous…

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    • (Left to Right); Mukhtar Abdi Ogle from the Office of the President of Kenya, United States International University-Africa Vice Chancellor Margie Ensign and Hendrina Doroba, Education Division Manager with the African Development Bank, unveil the Coding for Employment Program Centre of Excellence plaque
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Kenya: The African Development Bank’s Coding for Employment Program opens second Center of Excellence to boost youth digital skills

Coding for Employment and its partners aim to reach over 1,800 Kenyan youth through the two centers

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has opened a second Information and Communications Technology Centre of Excellence at the United States International University-Africa in Nairobi. This marks an important milestone for the Bank’s Coding for Employment program (https://Coding4Employment.org) and its growing partnerships with higher education and technical and vocational education and training institutions. …

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    • Partners launching the report. From left are Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa, the UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of Regional Bureau for Africa, Dr. Hanan Morsy, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECA, Ms. Amanda Serumaga, UNDP Resident Representative for Mauritius and Seychelles, and Prof. Kevin Urama, the Acting Chief Economist and Vice-President of AfDB.
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New Report Shows Need for Greater Action if Africa is to Hit Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Agenda 2063 Targets

Building Back Better from the Coronavirus Disease, While Advancing the Full Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development evaluates Africa’s progress towards the SDGs

The coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and climate change have all hampered Africa’s progress toward meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With 2030 less than 8 years away, most African countries are struggling to meet the SDG targets. Without renewed efforts, nearly 492 million Africans will be left in…

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    • With support from the African Development Fund, the Ivorian government is continuing its rural electrification program
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Côte d'Ivoire: African Development Fund to Release $10.53 Million to Secure Electricity Access for Approximately 500,000 Inhabitants in 739 Localities

The project will have multiple economic impacts on the national economy at the financial and socio-economic levels

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, the concessional financing window of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved $10.53 million in financial support to Côte d'Ivoire. The funds, to be disbursed to the Ivorian government, will be used to connect 739 rural localities to clean, affordable…

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Eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD8): African Development Bank to complement Japan Africa Dream Scholarship with African Science, Technology and Innovation Fund – Dr. Adesina

The Japan Africa Dream Scholarship program awards two-year scholarships to high-achieving African students to pursue post-graduate studies in priority development areas across Africa and in Japan

African Development Bank head Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, has commended the Japan Policy and Human Resources Development Grant, established by the Bank and the government of Japan, for its support to the Japan Africa Dream Scholarship program. The Japan Africa Dream Scholarship program awards two-year scholarships to high-achieving African students…