Press Releases
08/03/2013 - En ce jour de célébration des femmes, il est opportun de rappeler l’importance de leur rôle pour assurer l’avenir économique du continent africain. Car il est impossible, aujourd’hui, d’évoquer une Afrique prospère et égalitaire sans parler de leur pleine intégration sur le marché du travail.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Gender, Human and Social Development
10/12/2012 - The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is pleased to announce the 3rd call for proposals of the Migration and Development Fund (MDF). Award amounts will range from 350,000 EUR to 500,000 EUR per project.
Categories: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Migration and Development Initiative
13/11/2012 - Representatives of various local, regional and international development agencies and from different levels of Government met in Ouagadougou to discuss the funding of a sanitation project in the peri-urban areas of Ouagadougou, estimated at €138 million (FCFA 90.5 billion). This project should be completed by 2017 and is expected to improve the lives of an estimated one million people living in the most vulnerable areas of the city.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility
24/07/2012 - La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) vient d’octroyer 80 milliards de FCFA au Burkina Faso pour la réhabilitation de routes et la facilitation du transport sur le corridor avec le Togo. La cérémonie de signature de l’accord de financement a eu lieu le jeudi 19 juillet 2012, à Ouagadougou, entre le gouvernement du Burkina Faso, représenté par M. Lucien Marie Noël Bembamba, ministre de l’économie et des finances et la Banque, représentée par Mme Ginette Nzau-Muteta, représentante résidente de la Banque africaine de développement au Burkina Faso.
Categories: Togo, Burkina Faso, Infrastructure, Transport
29/06/2012 - Le Conseil d’administration de la BAD a approuvé, le 27 juin à Tunis, le financement de la réhabilitation et le bitumage de 303 km de route sur le corridor international Lomé-Ouagadougou, dont 150 km au Togo et 153 km au Burkina Faso. Le projet comporte également des aménagements connexes tels que la construction de plus de 100 km de pistes rurales, la réhabilitation d’infrastructures sociales et d’appui aux femmes, ainsi que deux volets importants pour la facilitation du transport et le renforcement des capacités.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Togo, Transport, Infrastructure
23/11/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved on 16 November a €5 million equity investment in a private equity fund which will invest in key sectors with regional expansion potential in French-speaking West Africa.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Information & Communication Technology, Infrastructure, Private Sector Development
22/09/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on 20 September 2011 in Tunis approved loans and grants amounting to 160 million Units of Account* (USD 257.6 million) to finance public sector growth support as well as water and sanitation projects in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, and Niger.
Categories: Niger, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Water Supply & Sanitation, Human and Social Development
17/05/2006 - The 2006 Annual Meetings of the AfDB Group opened in Ouagadougou on Wednesday, in the presence of five African heads of state and government.
Categories: Burkina Faso
17/05/2006 - An agreement was signed on 16 May 2006 in Ouagadougou between Mr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank Group, and Mr. Abah Abah Polycarpe, Cameroon’s Minister of Finance. The Agreement provides for the establishment of an African Development Bank Regional Office in Cameroon.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Cameroon
16/05/2006 - African Ministers, heads of multilateral financial institutions, donor agencies and representatives of civil society took a hard look at the state of African economies on Tuesday and found that it would be difficult for the continent to achieve meaningful development without a fully developed and integrated regional infrastructure.
Categories: Burkina Faso, Infrastructure
