Interviews
07/04/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Fragile States Unit Head, Sunita Pitamber, has commended the Bank’s commitment to Fragile States through the Fragile State Facility, noting that President Kaberuka’s support to fragile states was “truly visionary”. In an interview, Mrs. Pitamber explained why she shared President Kaberuka’s optimism about the Bank’s role in Fragile and post conflict countries. She revealed that “the timely and positive support provided by the Fragile States Facility has enhanced the Bank’s “preferred partner” status and the “first point of business” for many of the countries.”
Categories: Fragile States Facility
26/11/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Fragile States Unit (OSFU) will organize on 1 December 2010 in Tunis a workshop to sensitize Bank staff on the administration of the Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Program (TCB) of the Fragile States Facility (FSF).
Categories: Tunisia, Fragile States Facility
22/11/2010 - En contribuant pour 50% au Produit intérieur brut(PIB) et en faisant vivre 40% de la population rurale, le secteur de l’élevage est l’un des poumons de l‘économie tchadienne, estime Gabriel Bayemi, spécialiste en Développement Humain à l’Unité de des Etats fragiles (OSFU) de la Banque africaine de développement. L’élevage est d’ autant plus important qu’il constitue un potentiel en matière de garantie de sécurité alimentaire, précise-t-il. Interview.
Categories: Chad, Fragile States Facility, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production
12/11/2010 - L’Union des Comores bénéficie de la Facilité des Etats fragiles (FEF) de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) pour appuyer ses efforts de reconstruction post-crise. Un des axes majeur de cette assistance est le renforcement des capacités. Pour Mme Soifiat Tadjiddine Alfeine, Commissaire Général au Plan, l’appui de la FEF a été d’une grande utilité pour son pays, en ce sens qu’il a permis aux Comores de finaliser le Document de Stratégie de Réduction de la Pauvreté, de renouer les relations avec les bailleurs, de s’engager dans le processus de l’Initiative en faveur des Pays Pauvres Très Endettés (PPTE) et d’accéder à plus de ressources.
Categories: Comoros, Fragile States Facility
12/11/2010 - Dans le cadre du Pilier de Renforcement des capacités, la Facilité en faveur des Etats fragiles (FEF) de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) appuie les efforts du gouvernement du Tchad en matière de santé. Elle lui a octroyé un don de 450,215.71 UC (environ 324 millions de FCFA) pour, entre autres activités, appuyer le processus d’élaboration de la politique nationale de la santé, réactualiser le plan triennal de formation continue du personnel et assurer la formation en psychopédagogie des enseignants.
Categories: Chad, Health, Fragile States Facility, Human and Social Development
06/09/2010 - "The global food crisis has posed a major threat to global food and nutrition security with substantive humanitarian, socio-economic, environmental, developmental, political and security-related consequences. With ADF funds we support the development of a robust agriculture sector that can withstand the effects of crises – focusing our attention on providing the necessary infrastructure for this sector to become an engine of growth and enhanced livelihood.
Categories: Tunisia, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Infrastructure, Fragile States Facility
15/06/2010 - Mr. James Wahome, Lead Economist in the Fragile States Unit of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has highlighted the institution's increasing support to fragile states since the unit was created. “The 209 Annual Report is clear in suggesting that addressing the difficult and diverse development challenges in fragile states has increasingly become a core business mandate of the Bank since 2008, when Board approved the establishment of the Fragile States Unit and the Fragile States Facility,” Mr Wahome said in an interview in Tunis.
Categories: Fragile States Facility
04/06/2010 - On the issue of whether the experts from the diasopra should return home or remain abroad, she says that “the issue is not whether to return home or not. The African diaspora does not have to relocate to the continent in order to contribute to its development”.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Fragile States Facility
21/04/2010 - Fragile states have become a priority for development institutions, especially the African Development Bank. In March 2008 the Bank established a Fragile States Facility (FSF) as an institutional framework to deal in a comprehensive way with countries’ needs. For Ms. Margaret Kilo, Head of the Fragile Sates Unit, performance in addressing the challenges facing fragile states is linked directly to government’s ownership of FSF-operations and its willingness to work closely with partners, including the Bank. Also, talking about governance, she said it is a challenging issue to tackle, requiring long-term commitments.
Categories: Fragile States Facility
15/12/2009 - The African Development Bank-backed Bumbuna hydropower plant meant to provide electricity to Sierra Leonians and thus boost the economy was inaugurated on November 6, 2009. For Samuel Onwona, Resident Representative of the African Development Bank in Freetown, Bumbuna will bring down the cost of business in the country with a much cheaper, sustainable and reliable source of energy.
Categories: Sierra Leone, Energy & Power, Fragile States Facility
