Press Releases
19/02/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched an ambitious program to significantly improve data management and dissemination in Africa. The ultimate goal of the program is to facilitate wider public access to official statistics and to support countries in their efforts to improve data quality and dissemination for better policy formulation, monitoring and evaluation. The program was launched in November 2012 as part of the Bank’s broader statistical capacity building program in Africa.
Categories: Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Cameroon, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Tunisia, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Infrastructure, Information & Communication Technology, Human and Social Development
19/02/2013 - La BAD et la Mauritanie ont signé le 12 février plusieurs accords de dons dont l’objectif est de contribuer à la réduction de la pauvreté en milieu rural par le truchement d’investissements dans le secteur de l’eau.
Categories: Mauritania, Water Supply & Sanitation, Human and Social Development, Poverty Reduction, Infrastructure
12/02/2013 - The African Water Facility (AWF) offers a €1.2 million grant to the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) to support a project aimed at increasing access to sustainable and affordable sanitation and hygiene services to over 800,000 urban slum-dwellers in Monrovia, Liberia.
Categories: Liberia, African Water Facility, Water Supply & Sanitation, Human and Social Development
05/02/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) signed on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 an agreement to provide two sovereign-guaranteed multi-tranche lines of credit (LoCs) of respectively US $500 million to Bank of Industry (BOI) and of US $200 million to Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) in order to support the modernization and expansion of export-oriented small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The LoCs will allow local SMEs to be more competitive, scale up their operations and ultimately create more jobs in Nigeria.
Categories: Nigeria, Youth, Human and Social Development, Private Sector Development
05/02/2013 - La BAD a alloué en janvier dernier à l’Union des Comores un don de 2 millions d’Unités de compte, soit environ 3 millions de dollars pour appuyer les réformes dans le secteur de l’énergie et de la gouvernance financière (PARSEGF).
Categories: Comoros, Human and Social Development, Economic & Financial Governance, Energy & Power
10/01/2013 - “Building a new post-revolutionary Tunisia based on the ideas of young people and the strengthening the spirit of entrepreneurship” is the theme of the announcement ceremony for the beneficiaries of Souk At-tanmia, a recent pilot initiative and partnership in favour of entrepreneurship, economic development and social cohesion and job creation in Tunisia. The ceremony was held today in the auditorium of the Cité des Sciences in Tunis, an iconic symbol that is synonymous with innovation and youth.
Categories: Tunisia, Youth, Human and Social Development
11/12/2012 - Representatives from governments, parliaments, CSOs, private sector; youth, and NGOs from the Central, West and North Africa are gathering on December 10-11, 2012 in Dakar, Senegal, to discuss top priorities to be included in the global development agenda beyond 2015, which will be debated at the UN General Assembly in September 2013.
Categories: Senegal, Human and Social Development, Youth, Education, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
06/12/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday signed two loan agreements with the Government of Kenya amounting to millions of dollars to finance a major regional hydroelectric power project and the enhancement of the country’s higher education system.
Categories: Kenya, Education, Human and Social Development, Energy & Power
05/12/2012 - Cairo, December 5, 2012: Prime Minister Hisham Kandil reaffirmed today that the government is committed to fighting unemployment during the opening session of the “Youth Employment: Building the Future of Egypt” conference hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in collaboration with the Social Fund for Development (SFD). Kandil said he would accomplish this through the formation of a ministerial committee under his auspices that aims to create 750,000 jobs by supporting small businesses with the support of the SFD.
Categories: Egypt, Youth, Human and Social Development
05/12/2012 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank, on November 21, approved the Uganda Support to Higher Education, Science and Technology Project, a key Human Development operation that will contribute to the economic and social transformation of Uganda and the East African sub-region. In line with Uganda’s National Development Plan for 2011-2015, the project aims to turn the country into a regionally competitive industrial economy by 2025 by developing skills and investing in science and technology.
Categories: Uganda, Education, Human and Social Development
