Press Releases
19/10/2011 - La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) et le gouvernement tunisien ont signé aujourd’hui un accord de financement de 183 millions de dinars tunisiens (95 millions d’euros). Ce financement vise à soutenir le renforcement de l’accès à l’eau potable dans les zones rurales, une des priorités de la Tunisie.
Categories: Tunisia, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
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
19/07/2011 - The African Water Facility (AWF), an initiative of the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB), is awarded a grant of US$ 12 Million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to finance projects to advance water and sanitation services across Africa.
Categories: Rwanda, African Water Facility, Water Supply & Sanitation
10/06/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Zimbabwean government have signed a US $30 million grant agreement in support of the urgent water supply and sanitation rehabilitation project (UWSSRP) in the country. The UWSSRP is financed from the Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund (the Zim-Fund).
Categories: Portugal, Information & Communication Technology, Water Supply & Sanitation
27/01/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s Board of Directors approved on Wednesday, 26 January 2011, a USD 655,000 emergency relief assistance grant for Somalia.
Categories: Somalia, Health, Water Supply & Sanitation, Human and Social Development
22/11/2010 - Poor governance in the water sector prevents millions of Africans from getting clean, safe drinking water and adequate, reliable sanitation, ten years into the 21st century, says a new report by the African Development Bank (AfDB). This situation prevails despite numerous and rigorous technical, financial, economic and institutional assessments in support of investment s in water and sanitation projects in Africa.
Categories: Ethiopia, Water Supply & Sanitation, Economic & Financial Governance
15/09/2010 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a USD 98-million (UA* 65 million) loan and grant to finance phase two of Tanzania’s Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme (RWSSI II).
Categories: Tanzania, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
02/07/2010 - The grant will finance a project which will introduce a market and end-user oriented planning approach that simultaneously closes the water and nutrient loops called “Design for Reuse” in order to effectively capture the economic value of wastewater and faecal sludge nutrients to help finance, operate and maintain treatment facilities.
Categories: Ghana, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility
01/07/2010 - The AfDB and Cameroon on June 29, 2010, in Tunis signed an UA 10 million ADF loan agreement and a UA 5 million grant agreement. The grant resources will come from the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI). The loan and grant will help in the implementation of projects in four regions in the country – North West, West, South West and South.
Categories: Cameroon, Water Supply & Sanitation
04/06/2010 - On 25 May 2010, the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved an African Water Facility (AWF) grant of 3.549 million Euros to the Governments of Malawi and the United Republic of Tanzania to finance the detailed design and implementation of the Songwe River Basin Development Programme (SRBDP).
Categories: Malawi, Tanzania, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility
