This USTDA press release was originally published on 17 October 2022 on USTDA’s website.
 

Africa will never again be caught flat-footed at the outset of another health pandemic, African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina stressed on Monday at the World Health Summit in Berlin.

The African Development Bank Group’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative is launching its second call for proposals for the Women Entrepreneurship Enablers program, targeting women's business associations, incubators, accelerators, women-led cooperatives, and civil society organizations...

Climate finance committed by major multilateral development banks (MDBs) rose in 2021 with over $19 billion committed to climate change adaptation finance, according to the Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance, published on Friday.

EIB President Hoyer and Vice-President Fayolle join Egypt’s Minister for International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat for a discussion that broached both what is needed to mobilise climate finance at the scale that will be required and the hopes and expectations of the panellists for the upcoming COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh. 

At the second ministerial roundtable on support for Ukraine, participants reaffirmed their solidarity with the country and condemned the Russian war of aggression.

Today, I chaired a meeting of the Heads of the world’s 11 largest Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). We met to discuss how our institutions can help address the key challenges the world economy faces now and in the longer term.

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