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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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Rwanda: The African Development Fund commits $12 million to the rapid operationalization of the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APTF)

This foundation will act as a transparent intermediary that promote and negotiate with pharmaceutical multinationals and other countries in the South on sharing technology

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund approved, in Abidjan on 27 February 2024, $11.96 million Grant to speed up the establishment of the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation, headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda. The financial support from the African Development Bank Group’s Regional Public Good window, together with a…

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    • The Bank Group’s Strategy for Quality Health Infrastructure 2020-2030 was presented to health actors in Burundi (1)
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Burundi: African Development Bank presents health infrastructure strategy for Africa

The African Development Bank Group’s Strategy for Quality Health Infrastructure in Africa 2020-2030 aims to develop the infrastructure needed for high-quality care for people in Africa, thus limiting the need for medical evacuations

The Burundian Minister of Public Health and AIDS Prevention and the African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) office in Burundi met in Bujumbura on 27 October with managers of health infrastructure and sectoral partners in the country to work on the Bank Group’s Strategy for Quality Health Infrastructure in Africa 2020-2030. “The…

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    • Zambian Vice President Mutale-Nalumango (l)and Amb. Minata Samate Cessouma (r), African Union Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, during the opening ceremony of the African Day for Food and Nutrition Security
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Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security: Zambian Vice President underscores role of grey matter infrastructure development

Zambian Vice-President Mutale Nalumango called for urgent action to address hunger and malnutrition in Africa to help advance the continent’s socio-economic transformation

African Leaders for Nutrition (ALN), a platform for high-level political engagement to advance nutrition in Africa, has joined two crucial forums for advancing policy dialogue on agriculture and nutrition in Africa. ALN representatives attended the commemoration the 14th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (ADFNS) and 19th Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme…

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    • The African Development Bank deployed mobile health units to treat earthquake victims and relieve hospitals in Marrakech
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Morocco: Visiting Ouirgane, African Development Bank delegation recognises city’s resilience to earthquake

On behalf of the African Development Bank Group, Akin-Olugbadé expressed condolences to the victims’ families

African Development Bank Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Service Delivery Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbadé (www.AfDB.org), has saluted the "courage, dedication and work" of Moroccan emergency teams deployed in the Al Haouz region following the devastating earthquake on 8 September. Akin-Olugbadé, who was in Morocco as a participant in the 2023…

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    • African Development Bank, European Investment Bank, Islamic Development Bank and World Health Organization (WHO) launch new investment platform to strengthen primary health care services
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African Development Bank, European Investment Bank, Islamic Development Bank and World Health Organization (WHO) launch new investment platform to strengthen primary health care services

The Platform will make an initial €1.5 billion available to low- and low-and-middle income countries in concessional loans and grants to expand the reach and scope of their primary health care services

In a landmark development aimed at investing in and strengthening essential, climate and crisis-resilient primary health care services in low- and low-and-middle income countries, three multilateral development banks have joined with the World Health Organization (WHO) to launch the new Health Impact Investment Platform. The Platform, launched during the Summit…

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    • AfDB and Africa Foresight staff at the African Hidden Champions Dinner, 19 June 2023, Cairo
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African Hidden Champions hosts Egypt’s top business leaders

Participants at the event included executive leadership of African Hidden Champion companies headquartered in Cairo

The African Hidden Champions (AHC) initiative (https://www.AfricanHiddenChampions.co/) has hosted its first “Dinner & Dialogue” in North Africa in Cairo, Egypt. The event is part of a series of regional events that the initiative is holding in key business hubs across Africa in 2023. AHC, a co-partnership of Africa Foresight Group,…

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    • African Development Bank head Dr Adesina ( third from left) on panel discussing SDRs and debt at the Summit For a New Global Financing Pact, Paris, June 22 2023
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Summit for a new global financing pact: African Development Bank head says multilateral development banks (MDBs) should leverage International Monetary Fund (IMF) Special Drawing Rights to fight climate change and push SDGs

Adesina announced that the proposal which the African Development Bank is working on with the IMF would be complementary to the Fund’s efforts

The head of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina on Thursday once again underscored the case for multilateral development banks (MDBs) to be allowed to leverage International Monetary Fund Special Drawing Rights. With an increased allocation, MDBs could crowd in much-needed resources for developing nations to fight climate…

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    • Banking on nutrition: Akinwumi Adesina’s reappointment to Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Lead Group boosts efforts towards a malnutrition-free world by 2030
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Banking on nutrition: Akinwumi Adesina’s reappointment to Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Lead Group boosts efforts towards a malnutrition-free world by 2030

The Bank has also partnered with the African Union Commission to launch the African Leaders for Nutrition (ALN) initiative

African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) President Akinwumi A. Adesina has welcomed his reappointment by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Lead Group (https://apo-opa.info/3oXCYiH), a distinguished team of 22 global leaders dedicated to eradicating global malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The announcement, made on 1…

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Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hosts lead partners of Partnerships for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM) for review of vaccine manufacturing ecosystem in Africa

The meeting, which took place from 9-10 March, was dedicated to identifying a clear set of annual objectives and deliverables for the Partnership for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM) in 2023

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) hosted its lead partners at a meeting on the sidelines of the Africa Health Agenda International Conference 2023 held in Kigali, Rwanda. The meeting, which took place from 9-10 March, was dedicated to identifying a clear set of annual objectives…