News & Events
09/12/2011 - UK medical journal The Lancet recently headlined climate change as “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” Yet this presents a triple-win opportunity for Africa with three development agendas. With just 12.3 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of the global disease burden, harnessing health and poverty reduction goals to climate-change mitigation and adaptation strategies makes financial and logistical sense.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Health, Poverty Reduction, Human and Social Development, Environment
01/12/2011 - The low absolute poverty rate in North African countries is often used to demonstrate the strengths of the economic models of these countries. However, measuring poverty at the level of the nation often masks important variations in regional poverty rates.
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, Poverty Reduction
30/11/2011 - Cutting corruption and reducing poverty in Africa go hand-in-hand, the African Development Bank (AfDB) maintained at an anti-corruption meeting recently in Namibia.
Categories: Namibia, Economic & Financial Governance, Poverty Reduction
25/11/2011 - Successful implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and National Development Plans (NDPs) depends on effective resource mobilisation and utilisation.
Categories: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Poverty Reduction
11/11/2011 - Agriculture has been identified as a priority sector for economic growth and poverty reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo. To this effect, a grant for a Rural Infrastructure Development Support Project approved on 11 November 2011 in Tunis by the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, will enhance the government’s effort to improve food security and poverty reduction.
Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo, Infrastructure, Poverty Reduction
31/10/2011 - In its continued efforts to promote economic growth and reduce poverty in Mali, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a general budget support loan of USD 53 million for the west African country.
Categories: Mali, Poverty Reduction
- From: 16/10/2011
- To: 17/10/2011
On 16 and 17 October 2011, the international community will mark two special days that are at the core of the work of the African Development Bank
Categories: Food Production, Poverty Reduction, Human and Social Development
29/09/2011 - The African Development Bank Board of Directors has approved a USD 24-million loan to finance Zambia’s fourth poverty reduction budget support program. The African Development Fund (ADF) loan is part of USD 159 million budget support operation financed by World Bank ($30 m loan), European Commission ($43.5 m grant), UK’s Department for International Development ($41.6 m grant), Germany ($13.6 m grant), and Finland ($6.8 grant).
Categories: Zambia, Poverty Reduction, Human and Social Development
15/07/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) today in Tunis approved a budget support grant of USD 37.6 million (UA 23.2 million) from ADF-12 resource allocations to finance The Poverty Reduction Strategy Support Programme (PRSSP) Phase IV of Rwanda. The ADF support to the PRSSP-IV constitutes 13.9% of the total grant resources of USD 271.2 (UA 167.4 million) to which other development partners including the World Bank, European Union, Great Britain (DFID) and Germany are contributing.
Categories: Rwanda, Poverty Reduction
13/07/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) today in Tunis approved a loan of USD 70 million (UA 44 million) and a grant of USD 41.3 million (UA 26 million) to finance The Poverty Reduction and Business Environment Support Programme (PRBESP) in Ghana.
Categories: Ghana, Poverty Reduction
