News & Events
24/03/2010 - At the invitation of Asfaw Dingamo, Minister of Water Resources, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Ethiopia Field Office joined officials of the Government, Parliamentarians and other stakeholders from civil society, private sector and the donor community to celebrate World Water Day on 22 March 2010, under the theme “Clean Water for a Healthy World”.
Categories: Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Multidonor Water Partnership Program, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, NEPAD, Congo Basin Forest Fund
19/03/2010 - The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.
Categories: Water Supply & Sanitation, Congo Basin Forest Fund, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, NEPAD
15/09/2009 - Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, has approved a €1,430,000 grant from the African Water Facility (AWF) for the implementation of the regional water policy within the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). Estimated at € 2,263,000, the project will attract €1,430,000 from the African Water Facility, while IPPF-NEPAD will contribute €490,000.
Categories: African Water Facility, Water Supply & Sanitation, NEPAD, President's Corner
06/04/2009 - AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka, attended in Lusaka, Zambia on April 6, 2009 a two-day high-level financing conference on the North-South Corridor.
Categories: Zambia, NEPAD, President's Corner
27/02/2009 - African media experts, managers, and journalists from various state-run and private organizations along with communication practitioners from regional institutions, including the AUC, NEPAD Secretariat, UNECA, UNDPI, UNAIDS, OSAA and the AfDB, last Friday, February 20, 2009, in Johannesburg, called on each other to closely collaborate in efforts at delivering development information in Africa.
Categories: South Africa, Information & Communication Technology, Infrastructure, Regional Integration, NEPAD
20/02/2009 - Some 50 senior media executives from across Africa began meeting on Thursday in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss ways of increasing understanding of and support for NEPAD as a development framework through targeted journalistic coverage.
Categories: South Africa, NEPAD, Infrastructure & Regional Integration
26/06/2008 - The NEPAD-IPPF oversight Committee seeks to strengthen management and governance of the Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility Special Fund (NEPAD–IPPF).
Categories: NEPAD
26/06/2008 - Director of the World Bank’s Regional Integration Department said that AfDB and the World Bank share the conviction that regional integration is an important compliment to national programs of development and are committed to assist national clients to leverage effectiveness through exploiting regional solutions where these can provide economies, open new markets or help create important new regional public goods.
Categories: NEPAD, Regional Integration
27/03/2008 - The African Development Bank (AfDB), the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), and the World Bank today called for an increase in funding and a renewed focus on agricultural water management in Africa, including irrigation, drainage and rainwater harvesting.
Categories: Tunisia, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Water Supply & Sanitation, NEPAD
25/01/2008 - Bank Group Participates in Roundtable on African Infrastructure African infrastructure ministers met on Thursday in Saly-Portudal, Senegal within the framework of the "NEPAD’s Roundtable on the Financing of Priority Infrastructure."
Categories: Senegal, NEPAD, Infrastructure
