News & Events
24/05/2012 - A dazzling array of Africa’s most successful people, including a sitting president, a former president and a multibillionaire businessman, will gather at the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank in Arusha, Tanzania.
Categories: Tanzania
24/05/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has produced a comprehensive new guidebook on labour force statistics to aid statisticians in Africa in their analysis/Entitled: ‘Labour Force Data Analysis: Guidelines with African specificities’, the book is published by the Statistics Department of the Chief Economist’s department of the AfDB.
Categories: Human and Social Development, Youth, Chief Economist's Office
24/05/2012 - Because Africa is a continent of 54 countries, finding data on how Africans live in terms of consumption and spending is not easy, but a new report from the African Development Bank (AfDB) helps to fill the knowledge gap.
Categories: Human and Social Development, Financial Crisis, Chief Economist's Office
24/05/2012 - Millions of people living in the Baro-Akobo-Sobat (BAS) area of the Nile Basin are to benefit from a range of multi-purpose water resources projects to be planned by the Nile Basin Initiative. On May 4, the African Development Bank approved a €2 million grant from the African Water Facility to finance the development study needed to attract the investments required to implement them. The overall project is supported jointly by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development- Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF).
Categories: Ethiopia, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility
23/05/2012 - On May 10, a high level meeting chaired by President Donald Kaberuka, former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the Web Foundation elicited a lively debate among 10 Ministers of Education and Science and Technology from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda; who met with officials of Intel, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, HP, Adobe, and Microsoft among other leading technology companies in Africa. Other country governments represented were Benin, Burundi, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Nigeria and Rwanda.
Categories: Ethiopia, Financial Crisis, Information & Communication Technology, Education, President's Corner
22/05/2012 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) approved on 16 May in Tunis, an equity investment of USD 100 million to Agvance Africa, the first agribusiness-focused Fund of Funds on the African continent. The strategic objective of Agvance Africa is to increase private investment flows into the agribusiness sector on the continent to address growing food security concerns and unleash the largely unexploited potential of African agriculture and agribusiness sectors.
Categories: Private Sector Development, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Fund for African Private Sector Assistance, Board of Directors
21/05/2012 - African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka capped a visit to Washington with a landmark meeting at the Group of Eight (G8) Summit on Saturday. The special session focused on agriculture policy in Africa, and in particular, a fresh initiative called the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.
Categories: Agriculture & Agro-industries, Food Production, President's Corner
18/05/2012 - African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka joined U.S. President Barack Obama, several African heads of state and leaders from the public and private sector in Washington on Friday for the launch of a new initiative that aims to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth.
Categories: United States of America, Food Production, Poverty Reduction, President's Corner
18/05/2012 - More than 1,000 delegates gathered at the 4th Africa Water Week under the theme “Water for Growth in Africa”, organized by the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW), in Cairo, Egypt, between 14 and 18 May, 2012.
Categories: Egypt, Water Supply & Sanitation, Private Sector Development, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
18/05/2012 - Africa has experienced rapid economic growth over the last decade. Annual growth rates across the continent, averaging five to six percent per year, regularly outpaced those of other regions. A significant driver of growth has been the high demand and prices for raw materials. However, macro-economic reforms, greater political stability and urbanization also saw a strengthening of the services sector, a growing middle class and the emergence of pan-African entrepreneurship. Despite these promising developments, progress has been uneven across Africa. Poverty and food security remain pervasive problems.
Categories: Climate Change, Environment
