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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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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…

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    • Students at Carnegie Mellon University in Rwanda, one of the countries where the Coding for Employment Program is being implemented.
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African Development Bank’s Coding for Employment Program Selects 500 Digital Ambassadors to Lead Peer-to-Peer Training Model

The Bank and its technical partner, Microsoft, selected the Digital Ambassadors from more than 21,000 applications received from all over Africa

The African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) Coding for Employment program has selected 500 changemakers, 45% of whom are women, from four countries for the pilot Digital Ambassadors Program. The selected Digital Ambassadors will embark on a three-month course during which they will be equipped with in-demand digital skills, such as software…

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    • The academy to be launched by the African Development Bank will develop and deliver high-level training, technical assistance, and policy dialogue for African countries
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African Development Bank to Launch Public Financial Management Academy to Build Capacity in African Countries

The training, technical assistance and policy dialogue delivered by the academy will cover upstream and downstream issues in the public financial management cycle

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) on Wednesday approved the creation of a virtual academy to build public financial management capacity in African countries. Countries will receive technical assistance through structured, targeted, dedicated and local training as well as through policy dialogue. The academy, hosted within…

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    • Duke Commencement Ceremony 2022
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    • Duke University President Vincent E. Price (left) confers Humane Letters Doctorate on African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina (center)
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Duke University honors African Development Bank Group President and three others

Adesina received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in recognition of his career achievements in agriculture, and the innovative High 5 development priorities for Africa

America’s Duke University (https://bit.ly/3KXZEnZ) yesterday conferred honorary doctorate degrees on four recipients during its 2022 Commencement ceremonies in Durham, North Carolina. The honorees were African Development Bank Group President and World Food Prize recipient Dr. Akinwumi Adesina; rocket scientist, businesswoman and former non-profit leader Sylvia Acevedo, who currently serves on…