Tag: Gender Equality

World Bank Group to Invest $2.5 Billion in Education Projects Benefiting Adolescent Girls

13/4/2016/World Bank World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today announced that the World Bank Group would invest $2.5 billion over 5 years in education projects that directly benefit adolescent girls, whose empowerment is central to the Bank Group’s development efforts. The announcement, made at the Let Girls Learn event […]

NSE Calls for Action to Step it Up for Gender Equality

March 8, 2016/NSE The Nigerian Stock Exchange on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, held series of activities to commemorate International Women’s Day and to advocate for gender equality. Created to inspire women, International Women’s Day celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women’s past, present and future, while calling for […]