The 10-Year Strategy of the African Development Bank Group 2024-2033 envisions a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and integrated Africa. The Bank balances environment, equity, and economy to ensure sustainability, focusing on the sustainable economic development and social progress of regional member countries, as outlined 60 years ago.
The Bank’s main contribution lies in its High 5 operational priorities, aligning critical priorities of African countries with the Bank’s strengths in delivering transformative projects:
- Light Up and Power Africa: Accelerate progress towards universal electricity access through clean energy.
- Feed Africa: Enhance food security by transforming agriculture.
- Industrialize Africa: Achieve widespread industrialization by 2033.
- Integrate Africa: Promote free movement of goods, finance, and people, and build regional value chains.
- Improve Quality of Life: Empower Africans, especially women and youth, to fulfil their potential.
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- How does African Development Bank’s work and activities specifically touch upon e-commerce and the digital economy?
In order to achieve widespread industrialization by 2033 in Africa, the Bank will focus on connectivity infrastructure, digital services, and supporting digital entrepreneurs, while innovating to close the financing gap for digital technology.
The African Development Bank and Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI) are partnering with the Government of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) to host the 9th Edition of Catapult: Inclusion Africa, in Abidjan.
The Catapult: Inclusion Africa programme opened on Monday 29 June and is designed to identify, support, and scale high-potential financial technology startups that advance financial inclusion across the continent.
