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20/05/2013 - Across Africa, investments in physical and social infrastructure have failed to keep pace with growth and demand, creating a serious infrastructure deficit that slows investment, the achievement of broad-based and inclusive growth, and poverty reduction.
Categories: Infrastructure, Structural Transformation, African Water Facility, NEPAD, Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), Fragile States Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
13/05/2013 - African countries need to improve their regulatory frameworks in order to ensure the successful launch of African infrastructure project bonds, says a new report launched by the African Development Bank.
Categories: Economic & Financial Governance, Infrastructure, NEPAD
13/05/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) on May 10, 2013 concluded a one-week, pan-African training workshop for African regulators of derivatives and commodities exchanges. The training workshop was held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Categories: Côte d’Ivoire, NEPAD
19/04/2013 - A new book launched by the African Development Bank on April 19 explores how structured finance techniques can mobilize African domestic capital to support economic infrastructure projects and economic growth.
Categories: Economic & Financial Governance, Infrastructure, NEPAD
28/01/2013 - « Je mets en garde les donateurs contre toute réduction de l’aide au développement, car l’aide est une exigence morale et humaine », a déclaré Ban Ki-moon, Secrétaire général des Nations-Unies à la cérémonie d’ouverture du 20e sommet de l’Union Africaine (UA). « La contribution de l’Afrique à la croissance économique mondiale est appréciable. Cependant, la situation reste préoccupante, en dépit de l’énorme potentiel du continent en ressources naturelles et humaines », a-t-il ajouté.
Categories: NEPAD
- From: 21/01/2013
- To: 28/01/2013
- Location: Addis-Abeba, Ethiopie
La contribution de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) au développement des infrastructures en Afrique a été saluée par la 28ème session du Comité d’orientation des Chefs d’Etat et de Gouvernement du NEPAD qui vient de se tenir à Addis-Abeba, en Ethiopie, en marge du 20ème Sommet de l’Union africaine.
13/08/2012 - The African Water Facility (AWF), in collaboration with New Partnership for Africa’s Development – Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF), hosted a meeting recently to launch the preparatory phase of the Songwe River Basin Development Programme in Kyela, Tanzania.
Categories: Tanzania, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, NEPAD, NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPFF)
11/06/2012 - The railways sector development project in the East African Community (EAC) region was at the center of discussions during the Bank’s 2012 Annual Meetings in Arusha, Tanzania. A joint funding grant accord was signed on June 1, between the EAC, the Indian Trust Fund and the NEPAD-Infrastructure Preparation Project Facility, to modernize and improve the railway sector in the region.
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
