News & Events
19/04/2012 - The African Development Bank Group and the World Bank Group join the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in condemning the military coup in Guinea-Bissau, urging a speedy resolution of the crisis, and calling for the restoration of constitutional government to preserve the development gains of the country and its people.
Categories: Guinea-Bissau
27/01/2011 - The Boards of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, on 26 January 2011, agreed that Guinea-Bissau had met the conditions and requirements to qualify for debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative.
Categories: Guinea-Bissau
25/03/2010 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group in Tunis approved a USD 8.7 million grant for Guinea Bissau, comprising USD 6.1 million from the Fragile States Facility and USD 2.6 million from the African Development Fund. The grant will help the country reduce its budget deficit and mitigate the shocks from the global economic crisis and its own difficult political situation. It will also help strengthen the budgetary reform begun in 2007, and will make budgetary operations more credible and transparent. The government will also be able to pursue its economic programme and other significant institutional reforms.
Categories: Guinea-Bissau, Fragile States Facility
17/09/2009 - Guinea Bissau’s Economy Minister and AfDB Governor, Maria Hélena Nosoline Embalo, and the AfDB Senegal Field office Resident Representative, Mohamed H’Midouche, on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, in Bissau, signed a grant agreement on a government capacity building support project (PARCA).
Categories: Guinea-Bissau, Education
16/07/2009 - Guinea Bissau will get a US$ 12.10 million grant, equivalent to the Bank’s 7.8 million Units of Account*, to finance the country’s Administrative Capacity Building Support Project, approved by the Board on Wednesday in Tunis.
Categories: Guinea-Bissau, Economic & Financial Governance
16/07/2009 - The Boards of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group held their regular weekly sessions on Wednesday in Tunis, where they approved five operations in four countries to the tune of US$ 113.85 million (73.36 Units of Accounts*) to finance in infrastructure development, governance and capacity building projects.
Categories: Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Comoros, Infrastructure, Economic & Financial Governance
20/05/2009 - The Bank Group’s Vice President for Infrastructure was in Guinea Bissau on Saturday, May 16th, 2009, for the signing ceremony of the Grant Agreement with the Executive Secretariat of the Gambia River Basin Organization (OMVG).
Categories: Guinea-Bissau, Water Supply & Sanitation
04/03/2009 - Guinea-Bissau’s Economy and Plan Minister, Héléna Maria José Nosolini Embalo; the WHO Resident Representative in Bissau, Allarangar Yokouide; and the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s Regional Resident Representative in Senegal, Mohamed H’Midouche; on Friday, February 27, 2009, in Bissau, signed a letter of agreement for the implementation of a US$ 500,000 emergency aid grant in support of efforts at checking a cholera epidemic
Categories: Guinea-Bissau, Health
08/01/2009 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved the restructuring of the support programme to National Health Development Programme (Health-II) and has provided a grant of UA 6 million, equivalent to US$ 9.24 million, from the Fragile States Facility (FSF) for Guinea Bissau.
Categories: Guinea-Bissau, Health, Fragile States Facility
19/05/2006 - The ADF and the Government of Guinea Bissau signed a grant agreement of US$ 8.53 million to finance an agricultural and rural sector rehabilitation project in Guinea Bissau.
Categories: Guinea-Bissau
