News & Events
26/02/2013 - Africa’s trade with the United States grew by more than 500 per cent between 2001 and 2011, but many African countries missed out on that five-fold growth, a leading Washington expert told African Development Bank (AfDB) staff recently.
Categories: Regional Integration, Human and Social Development, Agriculture & Agro-industries
- Date: 13/03/2013
- Location: IHEC Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
“Social Business has enormous potential to solve social problems in a financially sustainable way, both in Tunisia and across Africa.” – Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Chairman of Yunus Social Business.
Categories: Tunisia, Human and Social Development
19/02/2013 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Wednesday, February 13, in Tunis approved a 22-million euro loan to Tunisia to finance the Gafsa North Integrated Agricultural Development Project, which aims to reduce poverty in the area.
Categories: Tunisia, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Human and Social Development, Poverty Reduction
19/02/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched an ambitious program to significantly improve data management and dissemination in Africa. The ultimate goal of the program is to facilitate wider public access to official statistics and to support countries in their efforts to improve data quality and dissemination for better policy formulation, monitoring and evaluation. The program was launched in November 2012 as part of the Bank’s broader statistical capacity building program in Africa.
Categories: Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Cameroon, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Tunisia, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Infrastructure, Information & Communication Technology, Human and Social Development
19/02/2013 - La BAD et la Mauritanie ont signé le 12 février plusieurs accords de dons dont l’objectif est de contribuer à la réduction de la pauvreté en milieu rural par le truchement d’investissements dans le secteur de l’eau.
Categories: Mauritania, Water Supply & Sanitation, Human and Social Development, Poverty Reduction, Infrastructure
12/02/2013 - The African Water Facility (AWF) offers a €1.2 million grant to the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) to support a project aimed at increasing access to sustainable and affordable sanitation and hygiene services to over 800,000 urban slum-dwellers in Monrovia, Liberia.
Categories: Liberia, African Water Facility, Water Supply & Sanitation, Human and Social Development
- From: 11/02/2013
- To: 12/02/2013
- Location: Sheraton Hotel, Tunis, Tunisia
The African Development Bank is hosting a Forum on Indigenous Peoples’ Development Issues in Africa. The event will take place on February 11-12, 2013 at the Sheraton Hotel, Tunis, Tunisia.
Categories: Tunisia, Human and Social Development
05/02/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) signed on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 an agreement to provide two sovereign-guaranteed multi-tranche lines of credit (LoCs) of respectively US $500 million to Bank of Industry (BOI) and of US $200 million to Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) in order to support the modernization and expansion of export-oriented small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The LoCs will allow local SMEs to be more competitive, scale up their operations and ultimately create more jobs in Nigeria.
Categories: Nigeria, Youth, Human and Social Development, Private Sector Development
05/02/2013 - La BAD a alloué en janvier dernier à l’Union des Comores un don de 2 millions d’Unités de compte, soit environ 3 millions de dollars pour appuyer les réformes dans le secteur de l’énergie et de la gouvernance financière (PARSEGF).
Categories: Comoros, Human and Social Development, Economic & Financial Governance, Energy & Power
- From: 11/03/2013
- To: 14/03/2013
- Location: South Africa
Representatives from Ministries of Finance and Health, national health insurance authorities and development partners, as well as experts and practitioners from Asia and Africa are to meet in South Africa next month at a forum on the role of health insurance in achieving universal health coverage and social health protection.
Categories: South Africa, Human and Social Development, Health
