News & Events
20/12/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved an African Development Fund (ADF) loan of USD 155.2 million to the United Republic of Tanzania on 16 December 2011. The loan will help support private sector reform and economic governance within the framework of the Governance and Economic Competitiveness Support Programme. The African Development Fund is the AfDB Group’s concessional or ‘soft loan’ arm.
Categories: Tanzania, Private Sector Development, Board of Directors
29/11/2011 - The Dar es Salaam water supply and sanitation project completion report (PCR) has won an Award for Best Project Completion Report from the African Development Bank (AfDB).
Categories: Tanzania, Operations Evaluation
25/11/2011 - Successful implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and National Development Plans (NDPs) depends on effective resource mobilisation and utilisation.
Categories: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Poverty Reduction
30/06/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the AfDB Group, on 29 June, approved a USD 64 million (40 million Units of Account) loan to Tanzania. The amount will be disbursed under the Marketing Infrastructure Value Addition and Rural Finance Programme (MIVARFP), which will be implemented over five fiscal years, 2011 – 2016.
Categories: Tanzania, Infrastructure
29/06/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) today approved a USD 23.4 million (Unit of Account 15 million) loan to finance The Alternative Learning and Skills Development Project Phase II (ALSDP II), in Tanzania.
21/12/2010 - In line with its strategy to boost energy infrastructure to accelerate Africa’s development, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved over USD 1 billion in energy projects across the continent during the last few weeks of 2010.
Categories: Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Energy & Power
- Date: 11/11/2010
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
An African Development Bank (AfDB) Regional Integration Strategy Paper (RISP) for Eastern Africa will be validated at a workshop scheduled to take place on 11 November in Nairobi, Kenya. The RISP covers Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. It is designed to support for regional infrastructure and institutional capacity building, including trade facilitation.
Categories: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Somalia, Seychelles, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Comoros, Burundi, Infrastructure, Regional Integration
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
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
07/05/2010 - The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa ended on Friday, 7 May 2010, in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, after three days of deliberations on how leaders and policy-makers should deal with challenges posed by the global economic crisis and how to use the crisis as an opportunity to design a sustainable road map for the continent’s development.
Categories: Tanzania, Financial Crisis, Capital Increase, President's Corner
