Women and gender-focused policies have a pivotal role in African recovery programs following the Covid-19 pandemic, affirm some of the continent’s top development leaders.
In a multimedia series released to coincide with the African Development Bank’s 2021 Annual Meetings, four of the institution’s experts in gender-based finance, human capital and youth, agriculture, social development and industrial trade, share perspectives on how women have been disproportionately impacted by novel coronavirus economic shocks, and the continent’s post-pandemic prospects.
“Women have to be part of the decision-making process…it is critical that gender equality, women entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment are at the center, when it comes to solutions for economic resilience on the continent. This is the path to putting Africa back on the economic growth trajectory,” said Atsuko Toda, the Bank’s Acting Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development. Learn more
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