News & Events
13/03/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched Open Data Platforms for the following 20 African countries: Algeria, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, Republic of Congo, Senegal, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Senegal, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi, Namibia, Ghana, South Sudan, South Africa, Tanzania, Economic & Financial Governance
07/03/2013 - Funded by the African Water Facility (AWF) to the amount of US $3 million, the project designed to rehabilitate the water supply and sewerage systems in Chitungwiza will be handed over today to the Municipality of Chitungwiza, following the completion of the construction works.
Categories: Zimbabwe, Water Supply & Sanitation, African Water Facility, Health, Human and Social Development
19/02/2013 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched an ambitious program to significantly improve data management and dissemination in Africa. The ultimate goal of the program is to facilitate wider public access to official statistics and to support countries in their efforts to improve data quality and dissemination for better policy formulation, monitoring and evaluation. The program was launched in November 2012 as part of the Bank’s broader statistical capacity building program in Africa.
Categories: Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Cameroon, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Tunisia, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Infrastructure, Information & Communication Technology, Human and Social Development
06/12/2012 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank, on December 5, 2012, approved a US $ 24.7 million (UA 16.12 million) grant to finance the Zimbabwe Capacity Building for Public Finance and Economic Management Project.
Categories: Zimbabwe, Economic & Financial Governance
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
24/10/2012 - The African Development Bank is organizing a Multi-Stakeholder Consultation Meeting on its draft Human Capital Development Strategy (2013-2017) in Pretoria, South Africa on 22 and 23 October 2012. Around 100 participants are expected from 12 Southern African countries: Botswana, Lesotho , Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Nigeria.
Categories: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Mauritius, Nigeria, Human and Social Development, Health
30/07/2012 - Inflation edged up to an annual rate of 12.1 percent in the countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) in June compared to the annual rate of 11.6 percent in June, according to new figures. In the countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the annual rate eased to 7.5 percent in June compared with 7.8 percent in May.
Categories: Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mauritius, Burundi, Economic & Financial Governance, Financial Crisis
17/04/2012 - The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) resident representative in Zimbabwe, Freddie Kwesiga, and the secretary general of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Sindiso Ngwenya, conferred last week on how to ease the daunting problem of youth unemployment through working with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Categories: Zimbabwe, Zambia, Human and Social Development, Youth
21/03/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) will host the Friends of Zimbabwe Roundtable, to discuss economic and political developments in the country on 23 March. The meeting will also focus on the prospects of dealing with the country's external debt arreears. The presentation of the Zimbabwe Accelerated Arrears, Debt and Development Strategy (ZAADDS) is a useful framework to address the issue of Zimbabwe’s external debt. ZAADDS is a key element of the government’s economic reform agenda.
Categories: Zimbabwe, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Japan, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, Economic & Financial Governance
31/10/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) recently approved a loan of USD 8 Million to finance the Lake Harvest Aquaculture project on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. This loan will help Lake Harvest Aquaculture expand its tilapia fish farming significantly and provide an important supply of affordable protein to the sub region. In total, development finance institutions together, in partnership with the AfDB, are providing USD 20 million in loans towards the project.
Categories: Zimbabwe, Agriculture & Agro-industries
