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    Africa Development Bank, Urges Africa to Risk Capital for its Youth and Women Development

    Posted On 29 Dec 2020
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
    Comments: 14

    By Richard Adorsu-

    Photo Credit: Global Network of Religions for Children

    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Accra, Ghana–  Africa must leverage investment to unleash the potential and ingenuity of its youth, its most important asset, African development Bank, President Akinwumi Adesina said at the Montreal fireside chat event.

    The three-day virtual event was organized by the international economic forum of the Americas, under the theme,
    a sustainable recovery for people and planet.

    During the fireside chat, Adesina engaged in discussion with Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the
    United Nations; Executive Director of the UNEP Jean Lebel, President of the International Development
    Research Centre (IDRC) moderated the discussion, which covered three areas: the current state of affairs with
    respect to COVID-19 and climate change, stimulus policies and recovery, and the role of the private sector in
    terms of recovery.

    “Climate change is an existential crisis,” Andersen said, and one that the planet must face together. The four
    largest economies account for 55% of emissions, Andersen pointed out, adding that the brunt of the impact will
    fall on African countries as well as delta and low-lying small economies around the world. “Any recovery has
    to have a degree of solidarity with it,” she said.

    Adesina reiterated that climate change posed a grave threat to Africans. “We have to grow differently, he said.
    We have to have growth that is climate resilient. Adaptation must be at the top of the agenda. The risk of actually
    dying from hunger is higher than the risk of dying from Covid-19.”

    He noted the Bank’s commitment to mobilize $25 billion for climate finance by 2025 as well as a number of
    Bank initiatives that are addressing climate adaptation, such as TAAT, which has provided Sudanese farmers
    access to heat tolerant maize and farmers in Zimbabwe, Malawi and other southern African countries.

    “The other way that one can grow back in a way that is climate resilient is by actually providing the countries
    with facilities that will allow them to insure themselves against exogenous climate shocks,” including the Bank’s
    ADRIFI program. Moving away from a linear economy and investing in nature’s infrastructure offered part of the solution, Andersen said.

    “Companies that jump into circularity, SDG 12, sustainable consumption and production, companies that do
    that, will save money, resources will be more circular, they will leapfrog, they will have a market edge, and they
    would have a lesser need for resource inputs. We’re seeing it in some sectors. Plastics, textiles, fashion, and
    food.”

    The issue of inequality ran through the discussion. Adesina admitted that the pandemic had worsened inequality in many spheres, education, rural versus urban, and the differences between the genders in terms of access to education and to finance. “You cannot grow economies without focusing on women. Women run Africa. Most of them are in the informal sector.

    They lack access to finance. There’s a $49 billion financing gap between them and men. That’s why the Bank
    launched a $5 billion initiative called Affirmative Finance Action For Women in Africa (AFAWA), so we can
    close that particular inequality.”

     

    For New Africa Business News Richard Adorsu Reports,  Africa Correspondent

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    14 Comments

    1. Sam December 29, 2020 at 1:40 am Reply

      Our African Countries in the Continent, should surely invest more money and resources to our youths, future leaders and women. Lagos Nigeria. Sam

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent December 29, 2020 at 1:41 am Reply

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    2. Michelle December 29, 2020 at 1:45 am Reply

      Thank you for the report. The youths and our Women, should be highly invested, upon. MAKE AFRIKA GREAT. Kampala Uganda. Michelle

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent December 29, 2020 at 1:46 am Reply

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    3. Joe December 29, 2020 at 1:51 am Reply

      The youths are the future of our great Continent. Governments need to invest in them. Africa is a young and vibrant, very smart majority population. Nairobi Kenya. Joe

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent December 29, 2020 at 1:52 am Reply

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    4. Philip December 29, 2020 at 1:55 am Reply

      Thank you for a great news year and reports. We love your online newspaper. You guys are the best. Philip in Oxford, England.

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    5. Martin December 29, 2020 at 2:00 am Reply

      Our youths are transforming, Africa for the best and thank you, Journalist Adorsu, with your team. Kigali Rwanda. Martin

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    6. Kufuo December 29, 2020 at 2:05 am Reply

      Our youths are the best and the greatest. Let’s invest in them. Thank you for reporting. Accra Ghana. Kufuo

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    7. Melvin December 29, 2020 at 2:08 am Reply

      Thank you for the newsletters and thank you, Richard. Lusaka Zambia. Melvin

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