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African countries will need innovative partnerships and a mix of small-scale and big transformational projects to build resilience and overcome fragility, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina told the Africa Resilience Forum on Tuesday in Abidjan.
Adesina announced that the Bank has created a bottom-up initiative to deliver the Bank’s development priorities – the High 5s –– in 10,000 communities in fragile situations in 1,000 days. “It requires innovative partnerships to scale up existing technologies in these environments. One such technology is present with us here in the room: Abze develops low-cost solar lighting that could be brought to rural communities in fragile situations through a concerted partnership effort,” he told the audience.
