The State of the Africa Region: Tackling Climate Change, Creating Jobs

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State of the Africa Region | Program Agenda

  • Yvonne Ndege, Former International TV Correspondent & UN Spokesperson

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A conversation about the challenges that the Africa region is currently facing, but also the opportunities to effectively integrate climate resilience and adaptation in development plans to create green, clean development pathways and develop a workforce that is prepared to take on the jobs of the future.

  • Ousmane Diagana, Regional Vice President for the Western and Central Africa Region, World Bank
  • Hafez Ghanem, Regional Vice President for the Eastern and Southern Africa Region, World Bank

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A discussion highlighting the macroeconomic trends in the region and beginning to answer the question: How do we ensure keeping a growth and jobs focus in climate change adaptation in Africa? Addressing climate change requires bold actions and massive investments across key economic sectors, including agriculture, energy, transport infrastructure, urbanization, and manufacturing. The panel will discuss opportunities these sectors bring for new and greener jobs.

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A conversation about resilience and adaptation policies needed to create more jobs, what is needed to drive investment in green and clean technology.

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  • Ousmane Diagana, Regional Vice President for the Western and Central Africa Region, World Bank
  • Hafez Ghanem, Regional Vice President for the Eastern and Southern Africa Region, World Bank
  • Sérgio Pimenta, Regional Vice President for Africa, IFC

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  • Darey, Singer-Songwriter from Nigeria

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Claude

How can we finance a self sufficient farm to créât job that would feed them. This self sufficient farm was research develop for Senegal 5 years ago project fail due to financing
Thu, 10/21/2021 - 02:40
AA Harris

Hello everyone! Please submit your questions and comments now, using the chat feature. We look forward to interacting with you LIVE on October 21!
Thu, 10/21/2021 - 07:23
AA Harris

Greetings! Thank you for participating in our virtual event, State of the Africa Region: Tackling Climate Change, Creating Jobs. Please continue to submit your questions and comments here on World Bank Live. You can also follow the discussion on Twitter, using #AfricaSOR, and we invite you to vote in the interactive poll featured on this web page. 
Thu, 10/21/2021 - 07:31
AA Harris

Host Yvonne Ndege, former international TV correspondent and UN spokesperson, opens our event by sharing key takeaways from the latest issue of Africa’s Pulse, the World Bank’s biannual analysis of the economic outlook for the region. Read more about it here:Africa’s Pulse: Climate Change Adaptation and Economic Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Thu, 10/21/2021 - 07:40
AA Harris

@HafezGhanem_WB: Africa has been very hard-hit, like the rest of the world, by the COVID-19 crisis. At the same time, the effect on our economies has been hard; Africa went into recession for the first time in decades, and the number of poor people increased by about 40 million.
Thu, 10/21/2021 - 07:45

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