News & Events
16/06/2010 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a supplementary loan of UA 22.05 million* (USD 32.5 million) to Kenya under the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the Group. The additional loan will finance the Kenya-Uganda transmission line and sub-station reinforcement within Kenya. The Kenya-Uganda transmission line is part of the Nile Equatorial Lakes (NEL) Countries Electric Grids Interconnection Project.
Categories: Kenya, Burundi, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Energy & Power
16/06/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has taken a major step in its efforts to improve the way it does business by strengthening the institution’s Independent Review Mechanism (IRM), to ensure that people benefit fully from projects and programmes financed by the institution
15/04/2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and Uganda have signed loan agreements amounting to USD 136.6 million (UA 90 million*) to fund two major projects in the country.
Categories: Uganda, Poverty Reduction
- Date: 19/11/2009
- Location: Kampala, Uganda
The African Tax Administrators Forum (ATAF), an African network of tax commissioners, was officially launched at a ceremony in Kampala, Uganda, opened by the President of Uganda, Mr. Yoweri Museveni on 19-20 November 2009. The inaugural conference was attended by 29 African tax commissioners, as well as policy-makers and development partners.
Categories: Uganda, Financial Crisis, Economic & Financial Governance
19/11/2009 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) approved on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 in Tunis, a UA 10.21 million (USD 16.23 million) loan to finance a Rural Income and Employment Enhancement Project (RIEEP) in Uganda.
Categories: Uganda, Human and Social Development
06/11/2009 - The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) ended on Friday, November 6, 2009, in Bujumbura, Burundi. The closing ceremony was presided over by the Burundian President, Pierre Nkurunziza, and Zambian President, Rupiah Banda, who is also the ICGLR’s current chairperson. Speaking during the conference, Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, reaffirmed his institution’s support to the Great Lakes region, recalling that the Bank Group was a co-organizer of the roundtable.
Categories: Burundi, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Regional Integration, Fragile States Facility
05/11/2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, has reaffirmed AfDB support to the Great Lakes Region and the region’s eleven countries at the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) taking place in Bujumbura, Burundi, where the AfDB is attending as a member of the conference and a bilateral partner.
Categories: Burundi, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Sudan, Zambia, Regional Integration, Fragile States Facility
- From: 05/11/2009
- To: 06/11/2009
- Location: Bujumbura, Burundi
An important AfDB delegation, led by the institution’s President, Donald Kaberuka, will attend a round table conference on the implementation of the Pact on Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes region scheduled to take place in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, from 5- and 6 November, 2009.
Categories: Burundi, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Regional Integration, Fragile States Facility
28/09/2009 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), on Friday, 25 September 2009 in Tunis, approved a loan of UA 80 million, equivalent to US$ 125.6 million, to finance the Road Sector Support Project 3 (RSSP3) in Uganda.
Categories: Uganda
24/07/2009 - Le rapport 2009 sur les perspectives économiques en Afrique (AEO) a été présenté le jeudi 23 juillet 2009 à Kampala (Ouganda) aux chercheurs, universitaires, diplomates, cadres et fonctionnaires des secteurs public et public, représentants des Organisations non gouvernementales et des médias. Le rapport est l’une des publications phares du groupe de la Banque africaine de développement destinées à la vulgarisation du savoir sur les questions-clés liées au développement économique et social de l’Afrique.
Categories: Uganda
