This Grant is issued from the Targeted Support Window (Pillar III) of the Fragile States Facility to the Recipient for the purposes of providing Technical Assistance and Capacity Building support to the Governance Commission. The activities for which the Grant was given are as follows.

Gold and platinum prices took an upward trend for the greater part of January. The gold price rose from USD 1,640 per ounce as at 4 January to USD 1,689 per ounce by mid-January before closing the month at USD 1,665 per ounce (Table 1). The Indian Government’s decision to raise its import taxes on...

AfDB's Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC) has just released Financing Change: The AfDB and CIF for a Climate-Smart Africa, our second report on the Bank's work to implement its Climate Investment Funds (CIF) portfolio in Africa. The report helps illustrate the emerging...

Let me start by welcoming you to our first edition of “LinkAfrica”, the African Development Bank’s newsletter dedicated to transport and telecommunications. As you know, this sector is crucial for the sustainable development of our continent. There simply cannot be any real inclusive growth,...

This Country Strategy Paper (CSP) proposes a strategy for supporting Nigeria’s development efforts over the period 2013-2017 and is anchored on creating a sound policy environment and investing in critical infrastructure. This strategy is aligned with the long-term development agenda of the new...

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The paper proposes a new Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for the Kingdom of Lesotho for the period 2013-2017. The new CSP is aligned with the Government’s development agenda and the African Development Bank’s new Long Term Strategy (LTS) 2013-2022. Following extensive consultations with the Government...

The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) is a rating system designed to assess the performance of countries’ policy and institutional frameworks in terms of their capacity to ensure the efficient utilization of scarce resources for achieving...