The rural sector has enormous agro-pastoral and environmental potential, comprising: 9 million hectares of arable land, about 59% of which is cultivated; 233,500 ha of irrigable land, about 30% of which is currently exploited; 500,000 ha of mud plains that are relatively easy to develop; and...

Le Cameroun continue de bénéficier d’une relative stabilité politique. Il est à noter, toutefois, que depuis 2016 les revendications sécessionnistes dans les régions du Nord-Ouest et Sud-Ouest ont fragilisé la situation sécuritaire dans un pays déjà affecté par d’autres poches de fragilité liées...

Cameroon’s major challenge in public finance today is to (i) successfully mobilise more internal budgetary resources from their average level of 13% of GDP to sustainably finance its transformative infrastructure development programme which absorbs over 36% of total public expenditure and (ii)...

The project’s overall objective is to promote strong and inclusive economic growth by building the country's capacity to monitor and evaluate the national development strategy for inclusive service delivery. It comprises three components: (i) build the capacity of structures responsible for the...

The Bank Group has been supporting the water sector in Sierra Leone since 1968, and to-date the total Bank Group assistance to the water sector amounts to UA61.30 million in six (6) operations of which four (4) were completed, viz: Freetown Sewerage study (1978-1980); Freetown water supply (1978-...

Revenue performance improved. Efficiency in public investment and financial management improved, including of Sonangol, the state owned oil company. Improved legal framework and systems for business facilitation and private sector participation through simplified procedures and online platforms....

This project concerns the Bourem-Kidal Section on the Malian section of the Trans-Sahara Highway (TSH) – an infrastructure at the centre of economic, social, political and security stakes for the continent. The highway is located in the Algiers/Lagos and Dakar/Djibouti Trans-African corridors,...

This project, to cost UA 29.46 million in total, concerns: (i) the development and asphalting of the Tamaské-Tahoua road section on a linear distance of 35 km via the Kalfou-Kolloma stretch; and (ii) the asphalting on a linear distance of 30 km of the Tamaské-Mararraba stretch, which is the unpaved...

The Renewable Energy for Electrification in Liberia (REEL Project) aims at developing the run-of-river Gbedin Falls HPP with a total capacity of 9.34 MW. The power plant will be located in the St. John River in the Nimba County and will connect to the existing cross-border line between...