News & Events
20/04/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched the second call for proposals under the Migration and Development Fund (MDF). This second call for proposals, open from 15 April to 31 May 2012, is targeting project sponsors in Central Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Categories: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Madagascar, Burundi, São Tomé & Príncipe, Angola, Comoros, Mauritius, Migration and Development Initiative
21/02/2012 - France’s minister for cooperation, Henri de Raincourt, its secretary of state for foreign trade, Pierre Lellouche, represented by Delphine d’Amarzit, multilateral affairs and development manager at the general directorate for Treasury, and the vice president for sector operations from the African Development Bank (AfDB), Kamal Elkheshen, met in Paris on 21 February 2012, where more than 200 people gathered for a conference on money transfers to Africa from migrants
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, France, Migration and Development Initiative
- Date: 21/02/2012 09:30 14:30
- Location: Paris, The Pierre-Mendès-France Conference Center Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry 139, rue de Bercy - Paris, 12th arrondissement
Remittances back home to North Africa and the franc zone from African migrants working abroad are worth tens of billions of euros every year. They are resilient to crisis and are a valuable spur to development in Africa. However, the costs of sending this money are far too high.
Categories: France, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Algeria, Migration and Development Initiative
04/01/2012 - The Migration and Development Fund’s oversight committee recently approved a series of grants amounting to € 1.4 million to six remittances funded local development projects across the African continent.
Categories: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo, Migration and Development Initiative
11/04/2011 - La BAD a lancé aujourd’hui à Tunis, le rapport sur les transferts des migrants. Intitulé : «Mettre les migrations au service de l’Afrique : Envois de fonds, compétences et investissements». Le rapport est une co-production de la BAD et de la Banque mondiale. « Les fonds des migrants africains sont devenus une source stable et importante de financement pour les pays africains ainsi qu’une balise de sauvetage pour les ménages ». a déclaré l’économiste en chef, Ncube Mthuli. L’économiste en chef a ouvert la réunion de lancement du rapport, en présence du président de la Banque, de plusieurs experts et de journalistes.
Categories: Migration and Development Initiative, President's Corner, Chief Economist's Office
30/03/2011 - With about 30 million Africans living outside their home countries, migration is a vital lifeline for the continent. Yet African governments need to do more to realize the full economic benefits of the phenomenon, says a new report by the African Development Bank and the World Bank.
Categories: Migration and Development Initiative
29/10/2009 - Le Forum, organisé avec le FIDA, la collaboration en cours avec la Banque mondiale pour une étude d’envergure en Afrique sub-saharienne, les études menées au Rwanda et en Ouganda, avec la collaboration initiale de DFID, les ateliers régionaux de novembre 2009 et le séminaire international de 2010, en collaboration avec la France, sont toutes des actions entreprises dans le cadre de l’Initiative Migration et Développement de la Banque, qui prévoit bien d’autres activités concrètes pour faciliter le transferts de fonds des migrants, en réduire le coût et augmenter leur impact sur le développement.
Categories: France, Migration and Development Initiative
23/10/2009 - An agreement establishing a multilateral Trust Fund to improve African migrant remittances was signed on Friday, 23 October 2009 in Paris by the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, the French government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Categories: France, Migration and Development Initiative
23/10/2009 - Le Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), le gouvernement français et le Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA) ont lancé à vendredi 23 octobre à Paris un Fonds fiduciaire multilatéral dédié aux transferts de fonds des migrants.
Categories: France, Migration and Development Initiative
21/10/2009 - The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, together with the French Minister for Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Co-operative Development, Mr. Eric Besson, and the Representative for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), will sign an agreement establishing the Trust Fund on Remittances from Migrants in Paris on 23 October.
Categories: France, Migration and Development Initiative
