News & Events
09/06/2011 - About one third of the obstacles to achieving the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) are water-related. Already, water poses a number of challenges for Africa like it does nowhere else in the world. With only four years left to achieve the MDGs, progress in the continent towards meeting the targets set out is slow and many countries run the risk of missing the mark.
Categories: Portugal, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
22/04/2011 - Dans l’optique de mieux disposer la Banque à abriter le Fonds vert pour l’Afrique et de canaliser les différents projets qui seraient initiés dans ce cadre, les experts de la BAD multiplient les débats autour des questions liées à l’environnement, sans exclusive. Pour Modibo Traoré, chargé de gestion des ressources naturelles en chef à la BAD : «La Banque est fortement engagée dans la promotion du développement rural durable… C’est aussi l’occasion d’introduire en Afrique de nouvelles technologies plus sobres en carbone et partant, de promouvoir une croissance verte sur le continent». Il s’agit, affirme-t-il, d’un débat ouvert, auquel toutes les contributions sont les bienvenues.
Categories: Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
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
- From: 05/09/2010
- To: 11/09/2010
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
A delegation led by the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s Water and Sanitation Department Director, Ali Kies, is participating in the Stockholm World Water Week from 5-11 September 2010.
Categories: Sweden, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
- Date: 17/06/2010
The African Development Bank Group will on June 17, 2010 join other development partners and the international community at large to observe the United Nations' World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. The Day, which has been marked since 1995, will this year focus on the theme “Enhancing soils anywhere enhances life everywhere".
Categories: Multidonor Water Partnership Program, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, Climate Change, Environment, African Water Facility
14/06/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) will on 14 June 2010 host the fourth Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI) Trust Fund Steering Committee Meeting. The meeting will review the 2009 progress of RWSSI; approve the 2010 Lending Programme/Budget; and agree on the way forward. The meeting will bring together representatives from France, Denmark, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, and the AfDB.
Categories: Tunisia, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Canada, Switzerland, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
24/03/2010 - At the invitation of Asfaw Dingamo, Minister of Water Resources, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Ethiopia Field Office joined officials of the Government, Parliamentarians and other stakeholders from civil society, private sector and the donor community to celebrate World Water Day on 22 March 2010, under the theme “Clean Water for a Healthy World”.
Categories: Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Multidonor Water Partnership Program, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, NEPAD, Congo Basin Forest Fund
19/03/2010 - The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.
Categories: Water Supply & Sanitation, Congo Basin Forest Fund, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, NEPAD
14/01/2010 - Meeting in a regular session on Wednesday, January 13, 2010, in Tunis, the Boards of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved a loan of USD 70 million and a grant of UA 600,000 to finance projects in Egypt’s agricultural sector, as well as a UA 23.31 million African Development Fund (ADF) grant to Togo, equivalent to USD 36,6 million.
Categories: Togo, Egypt, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
08/01/2010 - Le Groupe de la Banque et la République Centrafricaine ont signé, le 21 décembre 2009 à Tunis, un protocole de don concernant le projet d’appui à la réhabilitation d’infrastructures rurales (PARIR). D’un montant total de 3.85 millions d’unité de compte (UC), le don vise à augmenter la disponibilité des productions agricoles dans le pays, à travers la réhabilitation des infrastructures rurale et le renforcement des capacités des partenaires.
Categories: Central African Republic, Infrastructure, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
