01/01/1970

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina addresses world leaders at the first ever #FinanceInCommon2020 summit

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01/01/1970

Sommet Finance en commun : « La priorité post-Covid pour l’Afrique, c’est la création d’emplois, la promotion des femmes et le financement de l’...

Akinwumi A. Adesina, président de la Banque africaine de développement a pris part ce matin à la conférence de presse…

01/01/1970

A whole of society approach: Women are key to building resilient communities beyond COVID-19 - A joint Op-Ed by Vanessa Moungar and Yero Baldeh

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01/01/1970

Remarks by Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, President, African Development Bank Group, at the Finance in Common Summit, November 12, 2020

I would like to thank President Emmanuel Macron and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for hosting us for the Paris…

01/01/1970

South Africa Civil Society Virtual Open Day

What: South Africa Virtual Civil Society Organization Open Day Who: The African Development Bank’s Southern Africa…

01/01/1970

Uganda tops African countries with well-developed electricity regulatory frameworks - ERI 2020 report

Uganda has for the third time in a row emerged as the top performer in this year’s Electricity Regulatory Index Report…

01/01/1970

2020 Peace Forum: African Development Bank to fully engage on fragility and gender issues at the first “Finance in Common” summit

The African Development Bank will take an active part in sessions on fragility, gender and climate change at the…

01/01/1970

Partnership shapes peatland conservation strategies in Peru

This blog originally appeared on the USAID Climatelinks knowledge portal. Peru ranks as the country with the fourth…

01/01/1970

Can healthy ecosystems prevent pandemics?

Charlotte Milbank is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidate in epidemiology and geography at Britain’s University of…

01/01/1970

Circular economy is the future of wood fuel production in Cameroon

This article was originally published in the print edition of the Cameroon Tribune on Aug. 25, 2020. The circular…

01/01/1970

Reflections on landscape challenges and opportunities in Kalomo

With our field work stalled by social unrest in Zambia and then the global COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to seize this…

01/01/1970

Trees: To plant or not to plant

Trees, glorious trees. Let’s plant a million, a billion, a trillion or more. Tree planting is growing into a global…

01/01/1970

Transforming Kenya’s invasive ‘mathenge’ bushes into charcoal farms

This initiative will be discussed in the session Sustainable wood-fuel value chains for food security in Sub-Saharan…

01/01/1970

Terrain through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic: Blueprint for a healthy planet

Scientists have demonstrated that such diseases as the new SARS-COV2 coronavirus COVID-19 and Ebola can emerge due to…

01/01/1970

COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ‘empty forests’ when animals disappear

“We must not let a forest full of trees fool us into believing that all is well.” Kent Redford’s cautionary statement…