The African Development Bank held the first virtual statutory meeting of the new African Development Bank-Civil Society Committee before the Civil Society Forum to be held on 26-27 November 2020.
The committee, which met on Tuesday, aims to forge stronger partnerships with the civil society in Africa by promoting communication and raising awareness of the Bank’s work in their respective regions and sectors.
Based on the positive results of the previous committee, the Civil Society and Community Involvement Division, which serves as the committee’s secretariat, facilitated the renewal of the Bank’s Civil Society Committee for the next term, from 2020 to 2022.
“The Bank is counting on the active support, participation and contributions of the renewed committee over the next two years which will further strengthen the involvement of civil society and ensure that civil society effectively contributes to inclusive growth in the continent in line with the Bank’s 2013 Ten-Year Strategy -2022, “Vanessa Moungar, bank director for gender, women’s and civil society, told the online participants.
The main objectives of the statutory meeting were to agree on the internal operational processes, the preparation of the committee’s work program and the role of civil society in the delivery of the High 5 development priorities.
The renewed committee will build on the work of the 2018-2020 committee. The Bank has nominated 11 representatives of civil society from across the continent as follows (to sit with 11 bank staff):
Regional Representatives
MASEGO MADZWAMUSE, CEO, Trust in Southern Africa
MASHETI MASINJILA, Executive Director of the East African Civil Society Forum
NANA ASANTEWA AFADZINU, Executive Director of the West Africa Civic Association Institute
HANY IBRAHIM, Founder and Director, El-Mahrousa Participatory Development Solutions- North Africa
ROBERT MABALA KASONGO, CEO, the network of national NGO platforms in Central Africa
Thematic representatives
EMMANUEL GYIMAH BOADI, Chairman of the Board, AFROBAROMETER
ELIZABETH NSIMADALA, President, Pan Africa Farmers Organization
CHEICK FAYCAL TRAORE, Executive Director of the African Youth & Adolescents Network
SHUNGU GWARINDA, Interim CEO and Director of Programs, Graça Machel Trust
AMY GILIAM, branch manager Africa Climate Reality Project
International representative of non-governmental organizations
PATRICK YOUSSEF, African Regional Director, International Committee of the Red Cross
Contact:
Amba Mpoke-Bigg, | Department of Communications and External Relations Afrikaans Development Bank | Email: a.mpoke-bigg@afdb.org