News & Events

24/05/2012 - Millions of people living in the Baro-Akobo-Sobat (BAS) area of the Nile Basin are to benefit from a range of multi-purpose water resources projects to be planned by the Nile Basin Initiative. On May 4, the African Development Bank approved a €2 million grant from the African Water Facility to finance the development study needed to attract the investments required to implement them. The overall project is supported jointly by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development- Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF).

Categories: Ethiopia, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility

16/03/2012 - The governments of Chad, the Republic of Congo and France announced on 14 March that they would pledge some €45 million to support the African Development Bank’s Rural Water and Sanitation Initiative and the African Water Facility.

Categories: France, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative

14/03/2012 - The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, will make the opening speech at a high-level event at the Sixth World Water Forum today, 14 March 2012, in Marseilles where a distinguished panel of experts will tackle the issues of water resource management and access to water and sanitation in Africa.

Categories: France, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, African Water Facility

12/03/2012 - The African Development Bank, in collaboration with the African Union Commission, the African Ministers Council on Water, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the French government holding a conference on 14 March to discuss solutions and financing for boosting water security in Africa, within the context of the Sixth World Water Forum in Marseilles, France, which is taking place from 12 to 17 March 2012.

Categories: France, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative

06/03/2012 - More Africans have access to safe, clean water, but progress has been slow and mixed across the continent, according to a new report from the African Development Bank (AfDB).

Categories: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, African Water Facility, Chief Economist's Office

05/03/2012 - La Banque africaine de développement et la Facilité africaine de l’eau ont rencontré, le 14 février, différents acteurs du secteur de l’eau, des étudiants et des citoyens tunisiens lors d’une table ronde organisée par l’équipage du Voilier de la Solidarité et l’Institut national agronomique de Tunisie.

Categories: Tunisia, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Youth

03/02/2012 - About 750,000 people in three Darfur states will have improved access to water supply and sanitation through a €3.3 million African Water Facility grant approved by the African Development Bank (AfDB) on 26 January 2012.

Categories: Sudan, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility

17/01/2012 - En visite à la Banque, les 12 et 13 janvier 2012, dans le cadre de la mobilisation des ressources pour l'Initiative pour l'alimentation en eau et l'assainissement en milieu rural et la Facilité africaine de l’eau, Michel Camdessus, a déclaré : «Nous devons passer à une stratégie dont l’Afrique prenne la responsabilité et qui soit déterminée par la demande et non plus par l’offre éventuelle des donateurs, pour chercher les fonds et les allouer le plus efficacement possible à l’eau et l’assainissement et au changement climatique.»

Categories: African Water Facility, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative