The Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will be held from May 26 to 30, 2025, in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, under the theme 'Making Africa's Capital Work Better for Africa's Development'.
This strategic theme aims to identify and harness the opportunities offered by African capital - human, natural, financial and commercial - as the main driver of the continent's structural transformation and also review, with shareholders, the progress made over the past year.
More than 3,000 participants are expected to attend, including several heads of state, finance ministers from the institution's 81 member countries, heads of financial and development institutions, think tanks, NGOs, private sector stakeholders, academia and opinion leaders. In a press conference held virtually ahead of the meeting, Prof.
Kevin Urama, Vice President for the Bank's Economic Governance and Knowledge Management complex, said the upcoming meeting will address matters on how Africa can harness its fiscal, human and natural resource capital for her development. "Africa is rich in all these forms of capital but the question is how we make the best use of these resources as Africans, plugging linkages of resources mobilised in order to channel them to the development of the continent," he added.
