News & Events
05/04/2013 - As of the 31st of March 2013, the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) has granted USD 18.6 million to be channeled by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to Sierra Leone, Uganda and Mauritania for project concepts to help climate-proof their water sectors. This work is regarded as a critical element of these countries’ moves toward climate-resilient poverty reduction and sustainable development.
Categories: Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Water Supply & Sanitation, Infrastructure
- From: 05/06/2013
- To: 07/06/2013
- Location: Praia, Cape Verde
Remittances represent a rising source of finance for the continent and hold immense potential as drivers of economic growth and development. A recent study, Leveraging Migration for Africa: Remittances, Skills, and Investments, conducted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in collaboration with the World Bank shows that remittance flows into Africa reached US $40 billion in 2010 and have quadrupled since 1990. African remittances currently account for 2.6 per cent of GDP, a figure that in some countries equals or even exceeds both foreign direct investment and aid.
Categories: Cape Verde, Migration and Development Initiative, Human and Social Development, Economic & Financial Governance
13/03/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched Open Data Platforms for the following 20 African countries: Algeria, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, Republic of Congo, Senegal, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Senegal, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi, Namibia, Ghana, South Sudan, South Africa, Tanzania, Economic & Financial Governance
08/03/2013 - En ce jour de célébration des femmes, il est opportun de rappeler l’importance de leur rôle pour assurer l’avenir économique du continent africain. Car il est impossible, aujourd’hui, d’évoquer une Afrique prospère et égalitaire sans parler de leur pleine intégration sur le marché du travail.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Gender, Human and Social Development
07/03/2013 - To ensure that they get the best education possible – quality education – to enable us to increase the level of our participation, particularly among women in our society at all levels, to ensure that we become more competitive nationally and regionally. My message is to continue to pursue aggressively the skills, the education, the capacity that will make Africa as competitive in the world as any other region.
04/03/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Investment and Development Bank of the Economic Community of West African States (EBID) signed today a grant agreement amounting to US $950,000 to strengthen the EBID institutional capacities. The signing ceremony, held during the inauguration of the AfDB national office in Togo, was chaired by Serge N’Guessan, AfDB Resident Representative in Togo, and Bashir Ifo, EBID President.
Categories: Togo, Private Sector Development, Fund for African Private Sector Assistance
04/03/2013 - Within the framework of his official visit to Togo, African Development Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, accompanied by his close advisers, was received on Friday, March 1, 2013 in Lomé by the country’s President, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé.
Categories: Togo
01/03/2013 - The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, was received on Thursday, February 28 in Yamoussoukro by Alassane Ouattara, President of Côte D’Ivoire. The meeting took place alongside the 42th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), one day after the AfDB Board of Directors held its meeting in Abidjan.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Regional Integration
28/02/2013 - The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, is on mission to Togo from March 1-3, 2013, where he will inaugurate the Bank’s new country office in Lomé, the Togolese capital, accompanied by a delegation comprising Senior Management.
Categories: Togo
28/02/2013 - The African Development Bank Group, on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, held the first meeting of its Board of Directors in Abidjan since the Bank’s relocation to Tunisia in 2003, signalling the first steps of the Bank’s return to Côte d’Ivoire, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka said at the meeting’s opening.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria
