News & Events
03/02/2012 - About 750,000 people in three Darfur states will have improved access to water supply and sanitation through a €3.3 million African Water Facility grant approved by the African Development Bank (AfDB) on 26 January 2012.
Categories: Sudan, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility
24/01/2012 - La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé, le 11 janvier 2012, un financement de 64,45 millions de dinars tunisiens (32,45 millions d’euros) destiné à un projet de mise à niveau des infrastructures de traitement des eaux usées. L’objectif de ce projet est d’améliorer la qualité des eaux épurées qui serviront à l’irrigation de 5000 hectares de terres agricoles. L’agriculture constitue une importante activité économique en Tunisie et contribue à la sécurité alimentaire du pays.
Categories: Tunisia, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
18/01/2012 - The African Development Bank and the Government of Uganda signed two separate agreements on 12 January to finance projects to improve health services delivery and access to water and sanitation in both urban and rural areas of Uganda, with a total investment of USD 155.8 million. This double deal is expected to boost the country’s efforts to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals for health, water and sanitation.
Categories: Uganda, Water Supply & Sanitation, Health
17/01/2012 - En visite à la Banque, les 12 et 13 janvier 2012, dans le cadre de la mobilisation des ressources pour l'Initiative pour l'alimentation en eau et l'assainissement en milieu rural et la Facilité africaine de l’eau, Michel Camdessus, a déclaré : «Nous devons passer à une stratégie dont l’Afrique prenne la responsabilité et qui soit déterminée par la demande et non plus par l’offre éventuelle des donateurs, pour chercher les fonds et les allouer le plus efficacement possible à l’eau et l’assainissement et au changement climatique.»
Categories: African Water Facility, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
- From: 12/03/2012
- To: 16/03/2012
- Location: Marseille, France
The African Development Bank, in collaboration with the African Union Commission, the African Ministers Council on Water and the Government of France, is hosting a conference on water security in Africa in the context of the 6th World Water Forum.
Categories: France, African Water Facility, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, Water Supply & Sanitation
16/12/2011 - Le gouvernement tunisien et la Banque africaine de développement ont officiellement lancé, le 14 décembre, le programme national d’alimentation en eau potable en milieu rural en Tunisie. L’accord de financement, de 183 millions de dinars tunisiens (95 millions d’euros) a été signé à Tunis, le 19 octobre 2011. Ce programme vise à soutenir la stratégie d’accès à l’eau potable dans les zones rurales, une des priorités de la Tunisie. Des représentants de la Direction générale du génie rural et de l’exploitation des eaux, ainsi que des Commissariats régionaux de développement agricole, étaient présents à la cérémonie.
Categories: Tunisia, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
- From: 24/11/2011
- To: 25/11/2011
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
Between 24 and 25 November, the African Development Bank (AfDB) hosted an Africa-wide consultation to review the first External Assessment of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI).
Categories: Tunisia, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
09/12/2011 - The agricultural sector in the Maghreb is using natural resources so intensively that there is an urgent need to install government control mechanisms at both the national and local level. The rapid growth in the use of ground water for irrigation has resulted in a major increase in agricultural productivity, but the practice is unsustainable because of the over-use of aquifers and salinisation of the water and soil.
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Water Supply & Sanitation
07/12/2011 - As a continent of mainly developing economies, Africa can least afford to lose percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to climate change. Where GDP is built on unsustainable growth, there could be adverse economic effects in the future, said the moderator Buchizya Mseteka, adding that this made mitigation and adaptation both an environmental and an economic imperative.
Categories: Climate Change, Water Supply & Sanitation, Energy & Power, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
02/12/2011 - That seems to be the question being asked all over Africa. Irrigation levels are low, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where less than four percent of cropland is irrigated, which means farmers tend to go for rainfed agriculture.
Categories: Agriculture & Agro-industries, Climate Change, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
