Job at The African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

The Office of the Special Envoy on Gender has the objective to implement, the Bank Group’s Gender Strategy. The strategy recognizes the need to reduce gender inequalities by ‘’strengthening women’s legal and property rights, promoting women’s economic empowerment, and enhancing knowledge management and capacity building on gender equality. These priority areas, defined and agreed in board consultations with African countries, form the pillars of the Bank’s Gender Strategy for 2014-2018. The Bank is committed to contributing to the realization of this vision through work on two tracks: (i) an external transformation into a developmental partner that effectively uses gender dimension to leverage more sustainable developmental interventions for the benefit of beneficiaries and other stakeholders in its regional member countries (RMCs), and (ii) an internal transformation into a supportive, gender-responsive institution that values its female and male staff equally, protects them from discrimination and all forms of harassment and violence, and ensure a safe and preferred work environment that attracts the best professionals.

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