News & Events
- From: 23/10/2012
- To: 25/10/2012
- Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Experts and management of the African Development Bank Group are geared up for the eighth African Development Forum (AFD VIII) to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from October 23-25 on the theme “Governing and Harnessing Natural Resources for Africa’s Development.”
Categories: Ethiopia, Economic & Financial Governance, Environment
04/10/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) embarked on a consultation exercise across Africa on its proposed Integrated Safeguards System (ISS). The Bank consulted governments, representatives of civil society, the private sector and academic/research institutions.
Categories: Zambia, Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco, Gabon, Environment
26/09/2012 - African Development Bank (AfDB) staff from the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC3) and the Sierra Leone Field Office (SLFO) undertook a mission from September 3-7 in Sierra Leone to support the Government in its efforts to mainstream green growth into its Agenda for Prosperity. The Agenda for Prosperity, which is the country’s third Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP3), is currently being drafted by a broad spectrum of stakeholders across all government ministries. With the AfDB’s green growth intervention in the PRSP, the country will establish itself as the first fragile state in Africa to embrace green growth as a development opportunity.
Categories: Sierra Leone, Climate Change, Environment, Green Growth Initiative
26/09/2012 - The African Development Bank approved on August 29, an African Water Facility (AWF) grant of €950,000 to support a project to help the Government of Zambia develop, test and adopt updated guidelines, which will be used as framework for programming as well as designing the financing, construction and operations of multi-purpose small dams. The dams are expected to directly improve the lives and livelihoods of an estimated 90,000 people, and indirectly benefit about a million people living in rural areas, thus enhancing water security in more vulnerable parts of the country.
Categories: Zambia, African Water Facility, Water Supply & Sanitation, Climate Change, Environment
- From: 06/11/2012
- To: 07/11/2012
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
The 2012 Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Partnership Forum will take place in Istanbul, Turkey on November 6-7, 2012. The Forum, a global gathering of CIF’s diverse stakeholders, will offer plenary and parallel sessions to explore ways to maximize CIF’s effectiveness. At the Forum, the AfDB will lead a session on “Enabling Environment as an Engine for Private Sector Contribution to Sustainable Development” on November 6 from 2:00-4:00 pm.
Categories: Turkey, Climate Change, Environment, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
18/09/2012 - In its 69th meeting held in Bangkok, September 9-13, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved a new methodology – the AM0108 “Interconnection between electricity systems for energy exchange.”
Categories: Climate Change, Environment, Energy & Power
18/09/2012 - Natural resources and environmental representatives from the African Development Bank attended the 2012 World Conservation Congress, the largest and most important conservation event, from September 6 to 15 in Jeju, South Korea, to discuss conservation issues, including the problem of elephant poaching on the African continent.
Categories: Korea, Environment, Climate Change
06/09/2012 - Representatives from the Industries and Services division of AfDB’s Private Sector Operations Department (OPSM.2) participated in the Rubber Plant & Palm Oil Africa conference from September 4-7 in Accra, Ghana.
Categories: Ghana, Private Sector Development, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Environment
04/09/2012 - The President of the Republic of Mozambique, H.E. Armando Emilio Guebuza, officially launched the country’s Green Economy Roadmap on June 21 during a high level side event at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Event participants included Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Mr. Jim Leape, Director-General of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and senior members from the Mozambique government, including the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Environment, Planning and Development, Agriculture, and Mineral Resources.
Categories: Mozambique, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Environment, Green Growth Initiative
04/09/2012 - In an effort to expand financing opportunities for climate change adaptation, the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) held a training program for Bank staff on July 18 and 19 in Tunis, Tunisia. The event gave Bank task managers, country economists and country portfolio officers a better understanding of two financing windows established under the Climate Change Conventions and hosted at the GEF: the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) totaling US $780 million in pledges.
Categories: Tunisia, Climate Change, Environment, Global Environment Facility (GEF), Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
