Your Excellencies (All Protocols duly observed).
I am delighted to be here today at the Annual Meetings of the Caribbean Development Bank during the 52nd meeting of the Boards of Governors of the Bank.
 I wish to thank my dear brother and colleague, Dr. Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon, President of the Caribbean Development Bank for inviting me to deliver this lecture. Gene and I go way back, as he was the Country Director of the International Monetary Fund in Nigeria when I was  the Minister of Agriculture. And we worked so well together.

The African Development Bank Group hosted a workshop to explore securing a just transition in the developing world. The session, which took place during the World Bank’s Innovate4Climate Conference, highlighted the importance of South-South cooperation .

La Banque africaine de développement et le ministère marocain de l’Économie et des Finances ont signé, le 13 juin 2022 à Rabat, deux accords de prêts d’un total de 91 millions d’euros, destinés à compléter le financement des projets d’extension et de modernisation de l’aéroport de Rabat-Salé et de construction du port Nador West Med.

Quoi ?        Consultations nationales pour la préparation de la note de diagnostic pays et examen du rapport d’achèvement du Document de stratégie pays 2016-2022 du Gabon
Qui ?          La Banque africaine de développement et le gouvernement de la République gabonaise
Quand ?     Du 21 au 24 juin 2022
Où ?           Hybride : en présentiel à Libreville et en visioconférence
 

What:       Commonwealth Business Forum (part of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting)
Who:        African Development Bank President Adesina, the Government of Rwanda and heads of Commonwealth states and international organizations
Where:     Kigali, Rwanda.
When:      20-25 June 2022

"The post-Covid-19 world is opening up new avenues and opportunities. All public and private actors have a role to play in making themselves even more accessible to entrepreneurs. This will only be possible if a new impetus is given to entrepreneurship and MSMEs, with a synergy of all programs, public and private, which will have to be scaled up, have greater capacity, and be seamlessly interwoven." This was the conclusion of a regional conference held on 7 and 8 June in Rabat, Morocco, on the future of labor and the role of entrepreneurship and MSMEs.,

Economic ties between Africa and the Caribbean took a strong upward turn this week as the regions’ premier financial institutions—the African Development Bank and the Caribbean Development Bank—came together to advance their collaboration with one another.
On Tuesday, African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina delivered the prestigious 22nd William G. Demas Memorial Lecture at the Caribbean Development Bank’s 52nd Annual Meeting in Providenciales, Turks & Caicos.

Le Projet d’appui à la transformation de l’économie et la création de l’emploi, mis en œuvre au Burkina Faso, entre 2014 et 2021, a permis d’augmenter l’enregistrement de nouvelles entreprises. Les nouvelles entreprises enregistrées sont passées de 1 021 en 2014 à 13 500 en 2021, grâce notamment à l'appui du projet aux Centres de gestion agréés de Ouagadougou et de Bobo-Dioulasso dans la sensibilisation sur l’importance de la formalisation des entreprises.

Since 2020, the Multi-Country Covid-19 Crisis Response Program has strengthened the health system in Gambia. Significant health infrastructure has been built to contain possible waves of coronavirus infections and deal with potential communicable disease threats that could cause outbreaks in this West African country.
The $14.1 million in funding received for the project was split into two loans of $7.05 million each, one from the African Development Fund, the concessional funding arm of the African Development Bank Group, and the other from the Fragile States Facility.

President of the African Development Bank Group, (AFDB) Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina delivered the prestigious William G. Demas Memorial Lecture at the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Annual Meeting on Tuesday June 14, 2022, in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.