News & Events

16/01/2013 - At a CIF Partnership Forum event hosted by the African Development Bank on November 7, 2012 in Istanbul, a panel of speakers considered key points underpinning private sector investment in CIF operations, including fiscal ones, and lessons from specific countries which have been successful at attracting private sector investment at least in some sectors.

Categories: Turkey, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Climate Change, Environment, Private Sector Development

16/01/2013 - The African Development Bank hosted a two-day meeting of international finance institutions (IFIs) in Istanbul on November 8 and 9, 2012 to advance the analysis and information-sharing regarding the role that Climate Change Development Policy Operations (CC DPOs) can play in promoting structural changes towards climate-smart development pathways.

Categories: Turkey, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Climate Change, Environment

16/01/2013 - During the 2012 Climate Investment Funds Partnership Forum, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 6 and 7, Mafalda Duarte, CIF Coordinator for the African Development Bank, represented the Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) on a panel discussing Civil Society Participation in the Climate Investment Funds.

Categories: Turkey, Environment, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Climate Change, Civil Society

16/01/2013 - The African Development Bank showcased its work in the domain of climate change in Africa through an array of printed and audiovisual materials at the CIF Partnership Forum on November 8-9, 2012 in Istanbul. The CIF in Action semi-annual report, published recently by the Bank’s Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC), highlights the AfDB’s work in expanding access to international climate change financing and was prominently displayed at the entrance to the CIF Partnership Forum’s Knowledge Bazaar.

Categories: Turkey, Climate Change, Environment, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)

19/11/2012 - At meetings of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) in Istanbul, Burkina Faso and Ghana received endorsement of their far-reaching plans for sustainably managing their forest sectors as part of their goals for climate-resilient economic development. The endorsements came from the Forest Investment Program (FIP), one of the four programs of the US $7.2 billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF), with support of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and other partners including the World Bank Group.

Categories: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Turkey, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Environment

16/09/2011 - The Deauville Partnership, set up at the G8 meeting in the French seaside town in May 2011 with the aim of supporting political and economic transformation in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Morocco, has welcomed five new members.

Categories: France, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Deauville Partnership

14/10/2009 - The 2009 African Business Awards took place as a side event at the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Istanbul, Turkey. African banking, over the past five years has not only broken its national and regional shackles, it has also broken international boundaries, and has taken its first tentative steps outside the continent.

Categories: Turkey, United States of America, Financial Crisis

09/10/2009 - While in Istanbul, Turkey, where the Annual Meetings of the World Bank were taking place, Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, shed more light on the institution’s action following the outbreak of the global financial crisis.

Categories: United States of America, Turkey, Financial Crisis

07/10/2009 - On the sidelines of the World Bank Annual Meetings taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, the AfDB held a luncheon with governors of its regional member countries where they focused on results of the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh and the quest for new resources for the Bank Group.

Categories: United States of America, Turkey, Financial Crisis