News & Events
22/12/2010 - In line with the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s 2008-2012 Medium-Term Strategy which has transport as one of its core intervention areas in the Regional Member Countries, the institution’s Boards approved USD 806.1 million loans and grants to finance a number of national and multinational transport infrastructure and related project on the continent in the past two months
Categories: Morocco, Kenya, Ghana, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Infrastructure, Transport
21/12/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved 3 projects in the water sector in the last few weeks amounting to USD 114.35 Million. The Bank strongly believes supporting the sector is important to enhancing economic growth, improving living conditions as well as the health and education sectors of beneficiary countries.
Categories: Kenya, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Water Supply & Sanitation
21/12/2010 - In line with its strategy to boost energy infrastructure to accelerate Africa’s development, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved over USD 1 billion in energy projects across the continent during the last few weeks of 2010.
Categories: Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Energy & Power
20/12/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) organized, through its NEPAD, Regional Integration and Trade Department, in collaboration with the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund, a regional training workshop on cross-border banking and consolidated supervision from 6-10 December 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya, as follow-up activities to the AfDB’s study on “Financial Sector Integration in three regions in Africa”.
Categories: Kenya
- Date: 11/11/2010
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
An African Development Bank (AfDB) Regional Integration Strategy Paper (RISP) for Eastern Africa will be validated at a workshop scheduled to take place on 11 November in Nairobi, Kenya. The RISP covers Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. It is designed to support for regional infrastructure and institutional capacity building, including trade facilitation.
Categories: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Somalia, Seychelles, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Comoros, Burundi, Infrastructure, Regional Integration
21/10/2010 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 in Tunis, a USD 10-million loan to the African Guarantee Fund (AGF) to enable small and medium enterprises (SMEs) gain greater access to credit.
Categories: Mauritius, Kenya, African Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Private Sector Development
21/10/2010 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Wednesday 20 October 2010 in Tunis, a USD 15-million equity investment in Catalyst Fund, a 10-year multi-sector private equity based in Kenya primarily covering the East Africa Community (EAC) as well as DRC, Ethiopia and Zambia. The target market has a population of 280 million, with a USD 126 billion combined GDP.
Categories: Kenya, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Private Sector Development
16/06/2010 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a supplementary loan of UA 22.05 million* (USD 32.5 million) to Kenya under the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the Group. The additional loan will finance the Kenya-Uganda transmission line and sub-station reinforcement within Kenya. The Kenya-Uganda transmission line is part of the Nile Equatorial Lakes (NEL) Countries Electric Grids Interconnection Project.
Categories: Kenya, Burundi, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Energy & Power
- From: 14/06/2010
- To: 25/06/2010
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will begin its preparations for the International Comparison Program (ICP) 2011 for Africa with two weeks of workshops in Nairobi from Monday, 14 June to Friday, 25 June, 2010.
Categories: Kenya, Chief Economist's Office
25/05/2010 - Le responsable de l’initiative de croissance économique et le développement de l’Afrique, une organisation basée aux USA, M. Mwangi S. Kimenyi a expliqué lundi 24 mai 2010 au cours d’un atelier consacré au Consortium africain pour la recherche économique, dans le cadre des Assemblées annuelles de la BAD à Abidjan, que le système de banque via la téléphonie mobile au Kenya représente 25% du PIB’’.
Categories: Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, Information & Communication Technology
