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Introduction: This being the speech by Arshad Rab, CEO, European Organisation for Sustainable Development (EOSD) and Chairman, International Council of Sustainability Standards, during the Executing Session for central banks and commercial banks implementing the EOSD’s Sustainability Standards and Certification Initiative (SSCI), on 22 January 2025. Thank you, Patricia, for organising this session and congratulations on […]

Africa’s public development banks are under-financed and they must be fully mobilised to meet the continent’s climate and economic challenges. Faced with unprecedented challenges—the disproportionate impact of climate change, the economic after-effects of the pandemic and the announced reduction in European development aid—the African continent must make the most of its resources and assets to build

This op-ed was originally published on Capital Ethiopia and Addis Fortune. Ethiopia is an attractive destination for private capital due to its large population, abundant natural resources, and strategic location in East Africa. From 2004-2015, real economic growth in Ethiopia accelerated to 10.2% per annum, thanks in large part to a public investment-led growth model implemented since the

This op-ed was originally published on ImpactAlpha. Innovations are accelerating Africa’s economic transformation. After two decades of continued economic growth, lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and recent global economic pressures have knocked the continent off track on almost all Sustainable Development Goal targets. Substantial resources – $1.3 trillion a year or 42% of Africa’s $3.1 trillion gross

The Uganda Development Bank (UDB) Ltd has been granted the Sustainability Certification for adapting the Sustainability Standards Version 2.0.  The Certification was conferred on the UDB at the Karlsruhe Sustainable Finance Award on November 22, 2024, held in Karlsruhe, Germany. The UDB successfully completed the Sustainability Standard Version 2.0 to merit the Award. The Uganda