News & Events
23/03/2012 - The partnerships and cooperation unit (ORRU) recorded notable results in 2011 in moving the Bank’s partnership network towards a green and inclusive growth in Africa. During the year, the Unit mobilized a total of USD 127 million new grant resources, of which USD 112 million were for thematic funds and USD 15 million for single donor funds.
Categories: Private Sector Development, Partnerships
- From: 05/06/2012
- To: 06/06/2012
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is pleased to announce that it will host two Business Opportunities Seminars in Tunis on 5 and 6 June 2012 and on 13 and14 November 2012 respectively. Business Opportunity Seminars are targeted at private sector organisations from the AfDB’s 77 member countries.
Categories: Tunisia, Partnerships
14/03/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Customs Organization (WCO) have recently signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at strengthening the efforts of both institutions towards enhancing capacity building and customs modernization in Africa. While acknowledging that “many African Customs administrations are lagging behind others”, the World Customs Organization’s Secretary General, Kunio Mikuriya, is optimistic about Africa’s ability to strengthen its customs system. “Many African customs administrations have obtained political support for customs modernization initiatives,” he said in an interview.
Categories: Regional Integration, Partnerships
31/01/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Customs Organization (WCO) will work together to enhance the capacity of customs administrations in Africa. The declaration was made yesterday evening in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding between the two institutions, on the margins of the 18th African Union Summit.
Categories: Ethiopia, China, Regional Integration, Partnerships, President's Corner
- From: 22/03/2012
- To: 23/03/2012
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will hold its annual Partnerships Forum from 22 – 23 March 2012, at Hotel Ramada Plaza-Gammarth in Tunis, Tunisia. This year’s forum theme is “Transforming Partnerships towards a Green and Inclusive Africa.” Participants will include representatives of bilateral and multilateral donors, business sector, private foundations, knowledge institutions and Civil Society Organizations.
Categories: Tunisia, Partnerships, Private Sector Development
25/11/2011 - On 11 November 2011, the African Development Bank made further progress in its collaboration the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) on financial governance
Categories: Partnerships, Economic & Financial Governance, Infrastructure & Regional Integration
25/11/2011 - The Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative Trust Fund, a fund managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), will receive a 20 million US dollar contribution from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The funds are to help accelerate access to water supply and sanitation in rural Africa. This is the Swiss agency’s second contribution to the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative Trust Fund. It is close to six times the amount of its first contribution.
Categories: Switzerland, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, Partnerships
15/11/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has made substantial progress under its Trust Fund Reform policy in moving away from tied bilateral funds to multi-donor Trust Funds most of which are thematic in nature.
Categories: Multi-Donor Governance Trust Fund, Partnerships
25/09/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of South Sudan today signed a general cooperation agreement that will make it possible for the AfDB to extend financial and technical support to South Sudan pending its full membership of the African Development Bank.
Categories: Sudan, United States of America, Partnerships, President's Corner
09/06/2011 - Under an agreement signed today (Thursday 9 June) between the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Republic of Korea, at the Bank’s Annual Meetings in Lisbon, Korea has made a new contribution of US $8.5 million to the Korea Africa Economic Cooperation (KOAFEC) Trust Fund, bringing total contributions to the Fund since its establishment in 2007 to over US$ 26 million,.
Categories: Portugal, Korea, Partnerships, President's Corner
