News & Events
26/03/2012 - The G20 Development Working Group (DWG) on inclusive green growth (IGG) and international development cooperation met informally on 28 and 29 February 2012 in Seoul, Korea to discuss further actions to promote IGG ahead of a meeting scheduled in May in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Categories: Korea, Environment, Climate Change
15/12/2011 - A Nordic Development Fund (NDF) delegation will visit the African Development Bank (AfDB) in mid-January 2012 to present its new strategy and operational guidelines for accessing funding for climate mitigation and adaptation activities. The NDF can provide grants of up to USD 4 million for project components covering both soft activities (technical assistance and capacity building) and hard investments where appropriate.
Categories: Norway, Korea, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Climate Change
30/11/2011 - This week, an important global event is taking place in Busan, South Korea – The 4th High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. The aim is to search for a new consensus on development cooperation. And it is fitting that the conference takes place in a country that was at one time aid dependent and now has graduated to a member of the G20.
Categories: Korea, Quality Assurance & Results, President's Corner
09/06/2011 - Under an agreement signed today (Thursday 9 June) between the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Republic of Korea, at the Bank’s Annual Meetings in Lisbon, Korea has made a new contribution of US $8.5 million to the Korea Africa Economic Cooperation (KOAFEC) Trust Fund, bringing total contributions to the Fund since its establishment in 2007 to over US$ 26 million,.
Categories: Portugal, Korea, Partnerships, President's Corner
12/11/2010 - G-20 Leaders ended their two-day summit on Friday, 12 November 2010 in Seoul, where they agreed on a series of policy actions designed to respond to the challenges of global recovery and renewed growth, and to better prevent future crises. These are set out in the Leaders Declaration and accompanying Seoul Document
Categories: Korea, Financial Crisis, President's Corner
11/11/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has commended the decision to put development issues on the main agenda of the G-20 Summit in Seoul for the first time. On the eve of this historic summit, AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka said: “The G-20 Summit is taking place in a country which has catapulted itself from a poor to an industrialised prosperous country in a generation. It offers a unique opportunity to draw lessons from such an experience and that of others in the economic South for a possible paradigm shift that unlocks Africa’s potential to contribute to global prosperity.”
Categories: Korea, Financial Crisis, President's Corner
- From: 10/11/2010
- To: 11/11/2010
- Location: Seoul, Korea
As the Group of 20 developed countries head to Seoul for their 2010 summit from 11-12 November 2010, experts believe that the summit, hosted for the first time by an emerging market economy outside the G-8 countries, provides a historic opportunity to shape the future of the global economy, which has been battered by recent financial and economic crisis.
Categories: Korea, Financial Crisis, President's Corner
- From: 22/11/2010
- To: 03/12/2010
- Location: Korea, China, Japan, South Africa
* Korea: We are inviting candidates to visit our career event from 1 - 3 December 2010 in Seoul.
* South Africa: We are inviting candidates to visit our career event on November 25, 2010 in Johannesburg and November 29, 2010 in Cape Town.
* China: We are inviting candidates to visit our career event from 26 – 30 November 2010 in Beijing.
* Japan: We are inviting candidates to visit our career event from 22 November in Osaka and 24 – 25 November in Tokyo.
Categories: China, Japan, Korea, South Africa
15/09/2010 - Le ministre coréen de la stratégie et des finances, Jeung-Hyun Yoon, et le président de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), Donald Kaberuka, ont ouvert, le 15 septembre 2010, à Séoul, le 3e Forum de coopération économique Corée-Afrique. Ce troisième forum, qui se tient peu avant la tenue du Sommet du G20 à Séoul, au mois de novembre 2010, a été l’occasion pour le ministre de réaffirmer l’engagement de son pays pour l’Afrique, dans un esprit de coopération et de coprospérité. La Corée s’emploiera à ce que la voix de l’Afrique soit plus entendue et mieux représentée au G20 et dans les autres forums internationaux, a-t-il indiqué.
Categories: Korea, President's Corner
15/09/2010 - The Korean Strategy and Finance Ministry and the African Development Bank (AfDB) signed in Seoul on Wednesday, 15 September 2010, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) extending their USD 200 million co-financing agreement to 2011-2013.
Categories: Korea, President's Corner
