News & Events
12/12/2011 - A 10-day joint seminar on “Economic Policies for Financial Stability” organized in Tunis by the African Development Institute (EADI), in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund, was launched on 5 December 2011. The seminar is designed for middle and senior level officials involved in the formulation of macroeconomic and financial policies.
Categories: Economic & Financial Governance
12/12/2011 - « Nous ne pouvons pas combattre le changement climatique en condamnant l’Afrique à la pauvreté », a déclaré le président de la Banque africaine de développement, Donald Kaberuka, présent à la Conférence des Nations unies sur le changement climatique, qui se clôt aujourd’hui à Durban, en Afrique du Sud.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Poverty Reduction, Congo Basin Forest Fund, President's Corner
12/12/2011 - « Agissons contre la corruption aujourd’hui, avec le département de l’intégrité et de la lutte contre la corruption» : C’est le slogan adopté par le Groupe de la BAD, pour commémorer, le 9 décembre, la Journée internationale contre la corruption.
Categories: Tunisia, Integrity and Anti-Corruption
- 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 Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved on 7 December a corporate loan of South African rand (ZAR) 65 million equivalent to USD 8 million to Trustco Group Holdings Ltd to support the Trustco Finance student lending program thus improving access to education, employability and job-earning potential of high school graduates in the country.
Categories: Namibia, Private Sector Development, Education
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
09/12/2011 - UK medical journal The Lancet recently headlined climate change as “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” Yet this presents a triple-win opportunity for Africa with three development agendas. With just 12.3 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of the global disease burden, harnessing health and poverty reduction goals to climate-change mitigation and adaptation strategies makes financial and logistical sense.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Health, Poverty Reduction
09/12/2011 - Le conseil d’administration de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé le 05 décembre 2011, un don de plus de 2,4 millions d’euros en faveur de la République du Congo pour financer un inventaire forestier au niveau national par le Fonds pour les forêts du Bassin du Congo.
Categories: Congo, Congo Basin Forest Fund
09/12/2011 - Development and climate change are two sides of the same coin in Africa so it makes sense that funding for both should act as a catalyst for progress to benefit local communities. That was the key message from a panel discussion held at the climate change conference, or COP 17, in Durban on how climate change funds could be put to best use.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change
09/12/2011 - More than 600 million Africans in sub-Saharan Africa cannot access electricity in their homes from a grid. In order to improve this situation as quickly as possible, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has been working during 2011 on a new energy strategy for Africa with an emphasis on low carbon methods.
Categories: South Africa, Energy & Power, Climate Change
