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Support women-led climate change enterprises, experts urge governments.

Africa should brace for climate refugees in the coming years-majority of who will be women,...
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Africa in urgent need of concessional financing, experts urge.

For Africa  to build resilience and boost economic growth amidst the ongoing triple planetary crisis,...
Credit ratings impact on African development finance.

The Impact of Credit Ratings on the Costs of Development Finance in Africa

Event Details DATE 14 April 2023 TIME 10.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. EDT REGISTER HERE...
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Avoiding the Looming Disillusionment about IMF Climate Finance

The new IMF climate finance mechanism faces multiple implementation challenges. It will take urgent actions...
Recycling SDRs to accelerate economic transformation in Africa.

RECHANNELING Special Drawing Rights Through Multilateral Development Banks

AfriCatalyst, in partnership with The Centre for Global Development (CGD) to host a hybrid conference...
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2023 — Onward and Upwards for African economies

Africa’s recovery, like many countries was vastly interrupted in 2022 with the external spill overs...
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A sneak peek of the Recycling SDRs to Accelerate Economic Transformation in Africa

Africatalyst in partnership with Center for Global Development held a joint webinar on recycling SDRs...
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Opinion: Ukraine conflict shows urgency of SDR reallocation for Africa

By Amadou Hott, Daouda Sembene Women street vendors at a market in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso....
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AfriCatalyst and Speak Up Africa sign a Memorandum of Understanding

AfriCatalyst and Speak Up Africa are pleased to announce that they have signed a Memorandum...

How the IMF Can Support African Countries Deal with Climate Change

Evidence suggests that Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change. While African countries...
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ARC, WAHO and Institut Pasteur de Dakar establish an Alliance to strengthen epidemic preparedness and response

DAKAR, Senegal, July 25th, 2022 – AfriCatalyst is pleased to announce that the African Risk...
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ARC, WAHO and Institut Pasteur de Dakar hold a workshop to define the work plan and governance of their Alliance

Following its establishment in July 2022, the Alliance between the African Risk Capacity (ARC), the...

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