News & Events

09/06/2011 - About one third of the obstacles to achieving the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) are water-related. Already, water poses a number of challenges for Africa like it does nowhere else in the world. With only four years left to achieve the MDGs, progress in the continent towards meeting the targets set out is slow and many countries run the risk of missing the mark.

Categories: Portugal, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

05/05/2011 - This year’s Global Monitoring Report 2011 entitled “Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs - Heterogeneity, Gaps and Challenges”, reviewed the evolution of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) towards their achievement deadline set for 2015 by World Leaders in 2000. The Global Monitoring Report is a product of a strategic collaboration of multilateral development finance institutions led by the World Bank and which includes the AfDB.

Categories: Quality Assurance & Results, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

21/09/2010 - “Climate Change permeates all discussions on development and how we address the challenges of finance is an important issue,” AfDB Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Nkosana Moyo, said while opening a two-day Roundtable on African Perspectives on the Issues before the UN High Level Advisory Group on Climate change financing in Tunis on Tuesday 21 September 2010. Mr. Moyo was speaking on behalf of President Donald Kaberuka who is a member of the UN High Level Advisory Group, but is currently attending the Heads of States Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in New York.

Categories: Climate Change, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Environment

21/09/2010 - Africa has made steady progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a report launched today by the African Union Commission (AUC), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Categories: United States of America, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

24/05/2010 - The African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2010 report, co-published by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and OECD on Monday, May 24, 2010 in Abidjan, at the AfDB’s Annual Meetings highlighted the progress made toward achieving the MDGs.

Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

22/04/2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has released a concept note on a report to be published on the continent’s ports, logistics and trade. The report, one of the institution’s flagship publications, will focus on themes that address critical development challenges facing the continent. The 2010 edition will specifically focus on ‘Ports, Logistics and Trade in Africa’, given the tremendous opportunities offered by globalization and the need for the continent to be efficient at harnessing these opportunities.

Categories: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

20/01/2009 - In his New Year address to ambassadors of Bank Group member countries accredited to Tunisia as well as representatives of international organizations, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, in Tunis said Africa needed “a long-lasting solution to the crisis”. We must ensure that the MDGs are reached, as well as the Copenhagen objectives on climate change and the Declarations of Paris, Accra and Doha on development aid”.

Categories: Tunisia, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Financial Crisis, Climate Change

28/11/2008 - Le conseil d’administration du Fonds africain de développement (FAD - Groupe de la BAD) a approuvé l’octroi d’un don de 28, 2 millions de dollars US (17,85 millions d’unités de compte*), destiné aux Pays Membres Régionaux (PMR) pour le renforcement de leurs capacités statistiques en vue du suivi des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement (OMD) et de la mesure des résultats.

Categories: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

23/09/2008 - En marge de la Réunion de Haut Niveau sur le Développement de l'Afrique, le Président Kaberuka a tenu une conférence de Presse Conjointe avec le Président de la Republique-Unie de Tanzanie et Président en Exercice de l’Union Africaine, au siège des Nations Unie à New York.

Categories: United States of America, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)