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ADB Doubles WASH Investment, Turning Fighters into Farmers, Ethiopia’s 50% Women Cabinet

17.10.2018

by Roxana Adam

#Asian Development Bank, #Babban Gona, #Ethiopia, #Nigeria, #Women in Politics

Photo: Asian Development Bank / Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

The Asian Development Bank will devote about $2 billion annually to improving water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions across the Asia-Pacific region; Babban Gona is helping Nigerian farmers find economic opportunity by doubling yields and tripling the income of its members; and in Ethiopia’s new cabinet, women will head defense, trade, transport, labor, culture, science and revenue.