News & Events
19/12/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved, on 16 December, funding of USD 107.4 million for the construction of the Trans-Gambia Bridge and Cross Border Improvement Project. The financing package, which is being extended through the African Development Fund (ADF), the African Development Bank Group’s concessionary lending window, comprises an outright grant of USD 102.3 million and ADF concessionary resources of USD 5.1 million.
Categories: Gambia, Infrastructure, Transport, President's Corner
10/11/2010 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, approved on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 in Tunis, a USD 7.8-million (UA 5 million) grant to the West African Monetary Institute (WAMI), to cover the additional cost arising from the extension of the institute’s project to Liberia.
Categories: Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Economic & Financial Governance
- From: 26/07/2010
- To: 30/07/2010
- Location: Banjul, Gambia
In collaboration with the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) regional field office (SNFO) in Dakar, Senegal, the African Development Institute (ADI) and the Governance, Economic and Financial Reforms Department (OSGE) are organizing a regional seminar on “The role of Parliaments in Promoting Good Public Financial Management and Accountability in Africa” in Banjul, The Gambia, running from Monday, July 26 to Friday July 30, 2010.
Categories: Gambia, Economic & Financial Governance
15/04/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, approved an African Water Facility grant of 1,988,582 Euros to The Gambia to support a National Water Sector Reform project.
Categories: Gambia, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility
14/04/2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group recently attended the endorsement of The Gambia’s 2008–2011 civil service reform strategy. The strategy was presented to the National Assembly by the country’s Vice President and Secretary of State for Civil Service, Isatou Njie-Saidy. The event was attended by members of the diplomatic corps accredited to The Gambia and representatives of the country’s development partners.
Categories: Gambia
09/02/2009 - Tunis, 8 February 2009 - The Gambia government will benefit from a grant of 4 million Units of Account (UA*), equivalent to US$ 6 million, for the implementation of its Poverty Reduction Budget Support (PRBS) program, following...
Categories: Gambia, Poverty Reduction
15/01/2009 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a UA* 4.0 million grant, equivalent to US$ 6.16 million, for the Gambian government to finance its Poverty Reduction Budget Support Programme (PRBSP).
Categories: Gambia, Poverty Reduction
09/01/2009 - The protocol agreement on a grant to finance the livestock and horticulture development project which was approved by the African Development Fund (ADF) Board of Directors on the December 26, 2008, was signed on Friday in Banjul, The Gambia.
Categories: Gambia, Agriculture & Agro-industries
05/08/2008 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the West African Monetary Institute (WAMI) on Monday, in Tunis, signed a grant agreement of 14 million Units of Account (UA*), equivalent to US$ 23 million, to finance the West African Monetary Zone Payment System Development project, which aims at creating a single currency in the sub-region by standardizing the payment systems in The Gambia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Categories: Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Regional Integration
23/11/2007 - The Board of Directors of the ADF approved a grant of US$ 2.2 million, to the Gambia to finance the country’s Institutional Support Project for Economic and Financial Governance.
Categories: Gambia, Economic & Financial Governance
