News & Events

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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15/03/2011 - One of the landmarks in the Bank’s efforts to implement more environmentally and socially sustainable programs and projects and consequently support Africa’s transformation to a green economy is the update of its Integrated Safeguards System. The Bank will on 21-22 March 2011 host an international seminar on SESA. As a prelude to the seminar which brings together MDBs, several bilateral donors and regional participants, ERCU has approached the Compliance and Safeguards Division Manager, Anthony Nyong for more information. Read his interview.

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08/11/2010 - Africa’s development challenges can no longer be reduced to financial issues, but rather to a change in development paradigms which call for a voluntary mindset change with regard to money, especially development aid. That’s a view held by experts, representatives of development finance institutions and the civil society who attended the forum on aid effectiveness which took place in Tunis from 4-5 November 2010, under the aegis of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group.

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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”.

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05/11/2010 - La coopération Sud-Sud est le nouveau sujet à l’ordre du jour des débats au sein de la communauté du développement. Cette coopération n’est certes pas toute nouvelle, mais elle semble aller en s’accroissant, à la faveur de la progression économique de pays tels le Brésil, l’Inde, la Chine, voire l’Arabie saoudite, la Turquie, l’Afrique du Sud. Sans compter les banques arabes de développement, actives dans les pays récipiendaires depuis les années 60.

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05/11/2010 - Il faut d’abord mettre le binôme «Aide et Développement» dans son contexte historique. L’aide et le développement sont des concepts partout questionnés. Il y a toutes sortes de littératures sur le concept de l’aide et le développement, aujourd’hui. Mais pourquoi ce questionnement ? Nous assistons à la fin d’un modèle de développement et nous voyons l’émergence de nouveaux modèles de développement économique : le Brésil, la Malaisie, la Chine, etc.

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