The African Development Bank reiterates its commitment to the following:

The Bank will report back to UN Women HeForShe Initiative once a year on progress on implementation of the following commitments:

- The Bank reiterates its commitment to mainstreaming gender considerations into its investment projects and operations. This includes conducting gender assessments, ensuring gender balance in project beneficiaries, and integrating gender-responsive indica- tors as well as targets into project monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track progress in enhancing women's financial inclusion.

- The African Development Bank pledges to work with financial institutions in RMCs to promote gender-responsive policies, practices, and institutional cultures. This may involve providing technical assistance, capacity-building support, and other incentives to financial institutions to adopt gender-inclusive strategies, such as offering gender-sensitive products and services, reducing gender biases in lending practices, and fostering gender- diverse leadership.

- The African Development Bank reiterates its commitment to mainstreaming gender considerations by incorporating gender equality and women's empowerment criteria into project appraisal, approval, and implementation processes. By embedding gender considerations in loan conditions, the Bank seeks to leverage its financing mechanisms to drive positive change and con- tribute to the achievement of gender equality outcomes in the countries where it operates.

- The African Development Bank reiterates its commitment to achieving the Economic Dividend for Gender Equality (EDGE) certification process.