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<p>According to the African Development Bank, women-owned Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Africa face a $42billion financing gap tied to a lack of access to collateral in the form of land and property as well as networks to grow their businesses. What can be done to strengthen access to finance for women-owned SMEs? Vanessa Moungar, Director for Gender, Women and Civil Society at AfDB joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


AfDB on how strengthen access to finance for women-owned SMEs

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<p>The African Development Bank signed protocols to disburse a $14 million grant to the Government of South Sudan to boost agricultural markets in a project to be implemented by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Akol Dok, Economic Analyst joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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AfDB, South Sudan investment to focus on agriculture

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<p>The African Development Bank today hosted the Africa Investment Conference. This brought United Kingdom and African businesses together, to discuss investment and partnership opportunities. This comes at an interesting time, amid the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area. Joining CNBC Africa for more is Wale Shonibare, Director for Energy Financial Solutions, Policy &#038; Regulation at the African Development Bank.</p>


UK-Africa Investment Conference seeks to strengthen business ties

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<p>From COVID-19 induced lockdowns and the associated economic impact, to a coup d&#8217;etat and a number of elections, West Africa has had quite a busy year.</p>


COVID-19: How to position Nigeria for economic recovery in 2021

COVID-19: What’s the path to recovery for West African economies?

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<p>Are African countries doing better than expected in controlling the spread of COVID-19 and related deaths and how can development partners develop quality, accessible and resilient health infrastructure?</p>


AfDB’s Omilola on Africa’s health response to COVID-19

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<p>The African Development Bank says the pandemic has shed light on the need to rethink Africa’s development model and build economies sufficiently resilient to recover quickly from current and future shocks and also withstand their effects. So, what is the role of the private sector and development finance partners in achieving this goal? Joining CNBC Africa for this discussion are; Dr Rabah Arezki, Chief Economist and Vice-President, Economic Governance and Knowledge Management at the AfDB and Kayode Akindele, Partner at TIA Capital.</p>


How Africa can build resilient economies post-COVID-19

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<p>This year marks forty years of evaluation at the African Development Bank with over 2,000 evaluations concluded and reported. Joining CNBC Africa’s Kenneth Igbomor to discuss the role of development evaluation in supporting African countries for the successful delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals is Karen Rot-Munstermann, Acting Evaluator General at the AfDB’s Independent Development Evaluation.</p>


How crucial is development evaluation to the success of SDGs?

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<p>Power utilities in Africa have presented significant challenges for the continent’s economy. In South Africa, we know that Eskom has been one of the inhibitors of growth. With the transition to cleaner energy, there is now a greater need to design sustainable and agile power utilities. Ibrahima Konate, Manager of the Power Utilities Division at the African Development Bank joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


What the future holds for Africa’s power utilities

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<p>As Africa begins to turn the corner on COVID-19 and governments start to consider policies for building back better, there is a need to address the social, economic and environment trade-offs in COVID-19 impacts. That’s according to Kevin Urama, Senior Director for African Development Institute at the African Development Bank. He joins CNBC Africa’s Esther Awoniyi for more.</p>


AfDB on policies for building back better in post-COVID-19 Africa

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<p>The African Development Bank&#8217;s Vice President for the Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialisation, Solomon Quaynor says limited government resources for public infrastructure, retreating investors and the emergence of new types of infrastructure to be prioritised are some of the three major impacts the global pandemic on infrastructure development. He discussed these and more with CNBC Africa&#8217;s Kenneth Igbomor.</p>


AfDB’s Quaynor on how COVID-19 has impacted infrastructure investment in Africa

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<p>The African Development Bank plans to commit $25 billion in climate financing by 2025.  The multilateral development bank hosted the launch of the Global Centre on Adaptation in Abidjan.</p>


AfDB commits $25bn to climate change financing by 2025

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<p>The realities brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic means, Africa has to re-strategize to meet its development needs. As the African Development Bank enters a new chapter with the re-election and swearing-in of Dr Akinwunmi Adesina,  Martin Fregene, AfDB’s Director for Agriculture and Agro-Industry joins CNBC Africa to discuss what this means for the bank’s agriculture strategy for Africa.</p>


#AfDBAM2020: What’s the next phase for AfDB’s strategy for agriculture?

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<p>The swearing-in ceremony for the newly re-elected President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina has been concluded in Abidjan Cote div’oire. Chamberlain Peterside, CEO of Xcellon Capital Advisors joins CNBC Africa to examine Nigeria’s economic prospects and the role of development banks in building resilient economies on the continent.</p>


#AfDBAM2020: The role of development banks in building resilient African economies

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<p>Following the re-election of Dr Akinwumi Adesina as the President of the African Development Bank, he has emphasised that his second administration will build on the strong foundations of success in the past five years. Ambassador Harold Doley, First-ever United States Representative to the AfDB joins CNBC Africa’s Kenneth Igbomor to discuss what Adesina’s re-election means for AFDB’s future.</p>


#AfDBAM2020: Ambassador Harold Doley on what Adesina’s re-election means for AfDB’s future

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<p>Following his re-election with a hundred per cent votes Akinwumi Adesina will now serve as President of the African Development Bank for another five years. Amadou Hott, a Governor of the African Development Bank Representing Senegal joins CNBC Africa’s Kenneth Igbomor to discuss what next five years in office will mean for Africa&#8217;s development.</p>


#AfDBAM2020: What Adesina’s re-election means for the next phase of Africa’s development

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<p>One of the expected outcomes of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement is to integrate African economies and therefore create a regional economic bloc of about $3.4 trillion. Moono Mupotola, Director for Regional Integration at the African Development Bank joins CNBC Africa’s Kenneth Igbomor to discuss how Africa can integrate its markets to take full advantage of the AfCFTA in post-COVID-19.</p>


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AfDB’s Omilola on Africa’s health response to COVID-19

How Africa can build resilient economies post-COVID-19

How crucial is development evaluation to the success of SDGs?

What the future holds for Africa’s power utilities

AfDB on policies for building back better in post-COVID-19 Africa

AfDB’s Quaynor on how COVID-19 has impacted infrastructure investment in Africa

AfDB commits $25bn to climate change financing by 2025

#AfDBAM2020: What’s the next phase for AfDB’s strategy for agriculture?

#AfDBAM2020: The role of development banks in building resilient African economies

#AfDBAM2020: Ambassador Harold Doley on what Adesina’s re-election means for AfDB’s future

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AfDB on how strengthen access to finance for women-owned SMEs

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UK-Africa Investment Conference seeks to strengthen business ties

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AfDB’s Omilola on Africa’s health response to COVID-19

How Africa can build resilient economies post-COVID-19

How crucial is development evaluation to the success of SDGs?

What the future holds for Africa’s power utilities

AfDB on policies for building back better in post-COVID-19 Africa

AfDB’s Quaynor on how COVID-19 has impacted infrastructure investment in Africa

AfDB commits $25bn to climate change financing by 2025

#AfDBAM2020: What’s the next phase for AfDB’s strategy for agriculture?

#AfDBAM2020: The role of development banks in building resilient African economies

#AfDBAM2020: Ambassador Harold Doley on what Adesina’s re-election means for AfDB’s future

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