President of Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), Dr. Bandar Hajjar, and the Federal Minister for Energy (Power Division), Pakistan, Mr. Omar Ayub Khan, in a high-level virtual event have inaugurated the construction of the 113 kilometer electricity transmission lines from Pak-Afghan border to Nowshera under the South Asia Central Asia Regional Trade and Transmission Project (CASA-1000).
The headquarters of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), in the city of Jeddah, plays host to a high-profile meeting between the visiting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan H.E. Mohammad Haneef Atmar and IsDB President, Dr. Bandar Hajjar.
The Islamic Development Bank, the main financier of the Konya-Ankara High Speed Train, is now joining hands with its major Turkish development partners, for financing Konya’s Suburban Railway Project which is to connect major suburban industrial zones to the city center.
Three years after its establishment, Turkey’s Vakıf Katılım Bank is counted as one of the outstanding success stories of Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)’s investments in the country’s Islamic finance sector and Waqf asset management.
As the COVID19 pandemic rages on across the world, the newly-constructed earthquake-proof Okmeydanı Training and Research Hospital in the metropolitan city of İstanbul commences its first admissions on March 31st, 2020, a very timely reaping of the fruits of forward thinking health sector policies by the Turkish Government plus a EUR 158 million investment from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group.
Joint efforts in Ankara by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group Regional Hub Turkey as well as several major entities, including the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry sees the start of the 2nd Agricultural Mechanization Training Program for specialists from Africa.
Young entrepreneurs from Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Palestine, and Syria attended in an Entrepreneurship Competition organized by BINA, an international development program that aims to help fragile states overcome challenges that they face, most importantly rebuild their human capacity and institutions on important foundations namely; professionalism, efficiency, transparency and good governance.
As US $266 million worth of IsDB-funded water and rural integration projects in Azerbaijan near completion, a senior delegation led by Mr. Salah Jelassi, Regional Manager of the IsDB Regional Hub Turkey, visits the country to get a first-hand account of the progress made.
You have till 28 February 2020 to apply for a scholarship of your choice from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) details of which may be found in the main body of the text here and/or at: https://www.isdb.org/scholarships
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