News & Events
05/04/2013 - As of the 31st of March 2013, the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) has granted USD 18.6 million to be channeled by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to Sierra Leone, Uganda and Mauritania for project concepts to help climate-proof their water sectors. This work is regarded as a critical element of these countries’ moves toward climate-resilient poverty reduction and sustainable development.
Categories: Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Water Supply & Sanitation, Infrastructure
14/03/2013 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) approved on Wednesday, March 13, a loan in the amount of US $144.89 million in support of the Uganda road sector.
Categories: Uganda, Infrastructure, Transport, Youth, Human and Social Development
28/02/2013 - The African Development Bank consulted Governments, development partners, the private sector, civil society, youth, and educational and training institutions on technical vocational skills development in Kampala, Uganda, from February 25-27, 2013.
Categories: Uganda, Human and Social Development, Education
05/02/2013 - The African Water Facility offered a 1 million euro grant to the Community Integrated Development Initiatives (CIDI) to support their Kawempe Urban Poor Sanitation Improvement Project (KUPSIP). The project is designed to provide affordable and sustainable sanitation services to over 100,000 urban poor living in the Kawempe Municipality, in Kampala, Uganda.
Categories: Uganda, African Water Facility, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
26/12/2012 - Three major energy projects financed by the African Development Bank in Ouarzazate, Morocco; Menengai, Kenya; et Bujagali, Uganda; were featured in a film project which captured 25 sustainable energy projects on the African continent in the context of the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy.
Categories: Morocco, Kenya, Uganda, Energy & Power, Infrastructure
06/12/2012 - The Executive Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Wednesday approved the institution’s Information Technology Strategy 2013-2015 and the Bank Group’s Participation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Transition Fund.
Categories: Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Information & Communication Technology, Economic & Financial Governance, Transport, Infrastructure
05/12/2012 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank, on November 21, approved the Uganda Support to Higher Education, Science and Technology Project, a key Human Development operation that will contribute to the economic and social transformation of Uganda and the East African sub-region. In line with Uganda’s National Development Plan for 2011-2015, the project aims to turn the country into a regionally competitive industrial economy by 2025 by developing skills and investing in science and technology.
Categories: Uganda, Education, Human and Social Development
09/11/2012 - African Development Bank Group President Donald Kaberuka met with Uganda’s Head of State, Yoweri Museveni, on Tuesday, November 6 in Kampala.
Categories: Uganda, Economic & Financial Governance
06/11/2012 - Africa needs to pay special attention to inclusive growth by creating youth employment, improving agricultural output and investing in quality education and infrastructure. In a well-attended public lecture delivered in Kampala, Uganda, the President said the continent’s demographics pointed to an explosion in the numbers of young people, though employment creation was not keeping pace. He lamented the fact that youth unemployment, at 20 percent last year, remains way above the global average of 10 percent.
Categories: Uganda, Youth, Human and Social Development, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Education, Infrastructure
12/10/2012 - Louis Kasekende, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Uganda and former Chief Economist of the African Development Bank (AfDB), underscored the importance of economic integration as key to sustainable growth in East Africa during a seminar on Regional Integration in East Africa organized by the African Development Institute (EADI) and the AfDB’s Development Research Department (EDRE) in Tunis on October 5.
Categories: Uganda, Tunisia, Regional Integration
