News & Events
29/11/2010 - «Familiariser les négociateurs sur le changement climatique, des pays de la Communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) sur les questions liées au marché du carbone et favoriser les échanges entre négociateurs pour une position unique et convergente dans les négociations avec les Parties signataires de la Convention Climat (COP) à Cancun au Mexique». Ainsi se résument les objectifs d’un atelier de formation sur le marché du carbone et sur le Programme de Réduction des émissions provenant de la déforestation et de la dégradation des terres (REDD), financé par la Banque, du 8 au 13 novembre 2010 à Niamey. L’atelier a été organisé par le Centre Régional d’Agro-météorologie et d’Hydrologie (AGRHYMET) et s’est tenu dans les locaux dudit centre à Niamey.
Categories: Mexico, Energy & Power, Climate Change, Environment, Poverty Reduction, Congo Basin Forest Fund
29/11/2010 - An African Development Bank (AfDB delegation has arrived in Cancun, Mexico, to participate in the Sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP 16) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place from November 29 to December 10, 2010.
Categories: Mexico, Climate Change, Environment, Energy & Power, Poverty Reduction, Congo Basin Forest Fund
- From: 29/11/2010
- To: 10/12/2010
- Location: Cancun, Mexico
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established in 1992 at the Rio Summit with the aim of addressing the issue of global warming and its consequences. The Conference of Parties (COP) is the highest decision-making authority of the UNFCCC and its sessions take place once a year to specify rules for UNFCCC implementation.
Categories: Mexico, Climate Change, Environment, Congo Basin Forest Fund, Poverty Reduction
- From: 09/11/2010
- To: 10/11/2010
- Location: Kampala, Uganda
Robust domestic resource mobilization is the cornerstone for sustainable development. Donor assistance can bridge the fiscal gap for a while but ultimately cannot substitute for well established mechanisms for generating domestic revenue.
Categories: Uganda, Poverty Reduction, Financial Crisis
20/10/2010 - The Chief Executive Officer of the Alabama-based International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC), Amit Roy, has said that fertilizers are strong factors in efforts at increasing food production and attaining food security.
Categories: Tunisia, Food Production, Poverty Reduction, African Fertilizer Financing Mechanism
11/10/2010 - The U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Chief Executive Officer Daniel W. Yohannes joined African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President Donald Kaberuka in signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) today to work together in promoting sustainable economic growth as the catalyst for poverty reduction.
Categories: United States of America, Poverty Reduction
22/07/2010 - Le Groupe de la Banque et le gouvernement du Burkina Faso ont signé, jeudi 22 juillet 2010 à Tunis, deux protocoles d’accord d’un montant total de 20,80 milliards de FCFA pour financer le Cinquième programme d’appui à la stratégie de réduction de la pauvreté (PASRP V) au pays.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Poverty Reduction
15/07/2010 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional Arm of the African development Bank (AfDB) Group approved on Thursday, 15 July 2010 in Tunis, a grant of 14.8 million USD and a loan of 24.7 million USD to finance the Fifth Poverty Reduction Strategy Support Programme (PASRP V) in Burkina Faso.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Poverty Reduction
30/06/2010 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, approved on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 in Tunis a USD 48.89 million loan to assist the Republic of Zambia in implementing its Fifth National Development Plan aimed at economic growth and poverty reduction.
Categories: Zambia, Poverty Reduction, Economic & Financial Governance
23/06/2010 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved today, 23 June 2010, in Tunis, an equity investment of USD 50 million in the 8 Miles Fund which aims to invest equity and quasi equity in Greenfield and Brownfield projects in Africa.
Categories: Poverty Reduction, Regional Integration
