News & Events
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, President's Corner
01/11/2011 - More than 30 African Development Bank (AfDB) task managers, as well as environment and climate change specialists, attended a two-day workshop on the AfDB’s new Climate Safeguards System (CSS) from 11 to 13 October 2011 in Tunis, Tunisia to learn how CSS can support project teams in their efforts to mainstream climate risks into the AfDB’s operations. The first day of the training offered an overview of the CSS climate screening process, which helps project teams assess their project’s climate vulnerability and define adaptation measures and options to address them. The second day of training was dedicated to applying the screening process to specific sectors. The pilot stage of the new CSS targets Africa’s most vulnerable sectors: agriculture, water, energy and transport.
Categories: Tunisia, Climate Change, Quality Assurance & Results
01/11/2011 - As part of an ongoing effort to prepare Africa's negotiating position at the December UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP17) in Durban, South Africa, the African Development Bank (AfDB) sent a delegation led by its Quality Assurance and Results Department and Climate Change Coordinating Committee to the UN Climate Change Conference in Panama City, Panama from 1 to 7 October 2011. This was the last formal negotiating session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) before COP17. The AfDB followed up with African negotiators on outstanding issues, including the Africa Green Fund, and hosted two side events on critical areas in Africa’s fight against climate change: understanding Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and managing water resources.
Categories: South Africa, Quality Assurance & Results, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Water Supply & Sanitation
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, Quality Assurance & Results Dept (ORQR)
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, Quality Assurance & Results Dept (ORQR)
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), Quality Assurance & Results Dept (ORQR)
07/04/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has unanimously approved a new framework for boosting the effectiveness of the Bank’s lending. Adopted at a time when economic growth has yet to be translated to meaningful poverty reduction and jobs for Africa’s rapidly expanding population, the roadmap goes beyond the mechanics of aid delivery targeted by the Paris Declaration to commit the Bank to multiple actions designed to accelerate regional member countries’ achievement of their development potential.
Categories: Quality Assurance & Results, Quality Assurance & Results Dept (ORQR), Board of Directors
29/03/2011 - A two-day AfDB/GIZ workshop on strategic environmental and social assessment ended on March 22, 2011 in Tunis with the presentation of an AfDB brochure on “Environmental and Social Procedures Basics for Public Sector Operations”. The brochure, produced by Compliance and Safeguards Division, provides a simplified step-by-step project cycle and an action/output guide for Bank staff in environment and social assessment operations.
Categories: Tunisia, Quality Assurance & Results, Quality Assurance & Results Dept (ORQR)
21/03/2011 - A consultative meeting on strategic environmental and social assessment co-sponsored by the African Development Bank (AfDB) opened on Monday, 21 March 2011 in Tunis, Tunisia. The discussions focused on the evolution of assessment tools in international organizations and use of such tools at the AfDB. The meeting marks an important milestone in the Bank’s commitment to the Paris Declaration and the Accra Action Agenda as it brings together experts in the field to identify leading trends and practices in the field.
Categories: Tunisia, Quality Assurance & Results, Quality Assurance & Results Dept (ORQR)
18/03/2011 - Leading social and environmental assessment experts from the AfDB and its peer institutions will meet on March 21, 2011 in Tunis, to identify ways to strengthen environmental governance and institutions in Africa through assessment tools.
Categories: Tunisia, Quality Assurance & Results, Quality Assurance & Results Dept (ORQR)
