Press Releases

18/03/2013 - The Development Effectiveness Review (DER) is a series of publications reviewing the African Development Bank’s (AfDB or Bank) contribution to Africa’s development results. Beginning with the first Annual Development Effectiveness Review published in 2011, the DER series has promoted transparency and accountability to our member countries and stakeholders. It also helps us ensure that our operations are continually improving. In 2012, we have published a series of DERs examining aspects of the Bank’s portfolio, including fragile states, regional integration, governance and the Bank’s country program in Rwanda.

Categories: Rwanda, Quality Assurance & Results, Economic & Financial Governance, Regional Integration, Fragile States Facility

30/11/2011 - This week, an important global event is taking place in Busan, South Korea – The 4th High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. The aim is to search for a new consensus on development cooperation. And it is fitting that the conference takes place in a country that was at one time aid dependent and now has graduated to a member of the G20.

Categories: Korea, Quality Assurance & Results

10/06/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Friday 10 June 2011 launched the First edition of its Annual Development Effectiveness Review (ADER), at of its Annual Meetings in Lisbon, Portugal.

Categories: Portugal, Quality Assurance & Results

23/05/2011 - Conservation experts from the African Development Bank, development agencies, civil society, and regional governments met in Tunis, Tunisia on May 17-18, 2011 to identify and share trends and experiences to strengthen biodiversity conservation in Africa.

Categories: Climate Change, Quality Assurance & Results, Environment

05/05/2011 - This year’s Global Monitoring Report 2011 entitled “Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs - Heterogeneity, Gaps and Challenges”, reviewed the evolution of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) towards their achievement deadline set for 2015 by World Leaders in 2000. The Global Monitoring Report is a product of a strategic collaboration of multilateral development finance institutions led by the World Bank and which includes the AfDB.

Categories: Quality Assurance & Results, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

06/11/2010 - In his closing remarks, the AfDB’s Chief Operating Officer, Nkosana Moyo, echoed these sentiments, saying: “The organizers chose as the theme for this event ‘from aid effectiveness to development effectiveness’, and in the past two days we heard a strong affirmation of the need for home-grown solutions to Africa’s development challenges”. He added: “This is a vision of Africa’s development in which Africa is firmly in the driving seat, and aid is in a supporting role”.

Categories: Tunisia, Quality Assurance & Results

05/11/2010 - Mutual accountability and general participation are essential for successful development programmes, delegates at the second Regional Meeting on Aid Effectiveness said on Thursday, 4 November 2010 in Tunis, where South-South development partnership was also drawing attention.

Categories: Tunisia, Quality Assurance & Results

04/11/2010 - Africa must reduce aid-dependency and foster new alternative sources of development finance, the African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, has said.

Speaking at the opening of a two-day Second Regional Meeting on Aid Effectiveness on Thursday, 4 November 2010, in Tunis, Mr. Kaberuka said that African countries must build an agenda that is internally based, and underscores a reduction of aid-dependency.

Categories: Tunisia, Quality Assurance & Results

30/09/2010 - On 22 September 2010, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved the institution’s Results Measurement Framework (RMF).

Categories: Quality Assurance & Results