31-May-2019 - Le Conseil d’administration de la Banque africaine de développement a approuvé, le 21 mai, un financement complémentaire de 8,63 millions d’euros en faveur du Projet d’appui au secteur de l’énergie aux Comores, portant ainsi la contribution totale de l’institution à 25,22 millions d’euros.
31-May-2019 - La Banque africaine de développement et le ministère du Plan et du Développement Économique de Guinée, ont signé, jeudi 30 mai 2019 au Petit palais de Conakry, un accord de don portant sur une étude de faisabilité d’un projet de construction d’un port en eau profonde polyvalent dans le nord-ouest du pays, pour un montant de deux millions de dollars américains.
29-May-2019 - The African Development Bank and the Zero Emissions Omissions Coalition, an advocacy group dedicated to mobilising support for climate change, have met to discuss the Bank’s role in leading clean energy production on the continent and greater transparency on its investments.
29-May-2019 - African nations must focus on building resilience against climate change and renew efforts to save resources spent on weather-related emergency relief to better address the needs of the vulnerable, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina said on Monday.
29-May-2019 - Le Conseil d'administration du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement a approuvé, mercredi 29 mai 2019, un financement total de 57,5 millions d’euros en faveur de la banque tunisienne Amen Bank afin de développer le commerce et accompagner les petites et moyennes entreprises (PME).
Cette enveloppe se compose d’un prêt d’investissement à long terme de 35 millions d’euros et d’une facilité de 15 millions d’euros pour le financement du commerce ainsi qu’un complément de 7,5 millions d’euros provenant du fonds « Africa Growing Together...
28-May-2019 - The governments of Japan and Austria have approved a $1 million fund to strengthen the participation of the private sector in combating climate change.
The funding will be channeled to the Africa Private Sector Assistance (FAPA) grant, which aims to expand the role of the private sector in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of African countries. NDCs are national efforts to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions and form part of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
23-May-2019 - Mozambique has launched a new statistics-based system to track trends in the labour market sector. The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Mozambique (MITESS) launched the Labour Market Information System (SIMT) Management Platform on May 9th.
The new system was supported by the African Development Bank under the Job Creation and Livelihood Improvement Project. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) was also a key partner.
21-May-2019 - The African Development Bank has commissioned a study into the contribution of the jewelry manufacturing industry and its potential for job creation for women and youth in Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and the Republic of Guinea.
The initial US $1.4-million project, will entail a value chain analysis study examining the sector’s contributions to value addition and job creation. It will be financed under the Bank’s Transition Support Facility and implemented over 24 months, in coordination with the relevant ministries and agencies in all three...
21-May-2019 - The African Development Bank has since 1995 granted five loans totaling $700 million to the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), a governmental financial institution with special focus on infrastructure expansion. The transactions have helped to deepen financial markets and buoyed local businesses.
The Bank’s lines of credit enabled DBSA to finance some 20 private sector projects in eight countries, covering seven sectors (energy, industry, finance, tourism, telecoms, agriculture and infrastructure). The investments generated and...
21-May-2019 - The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) hosted by the African Development Bank, the Didier Drogba Foundation (FDD) and the Ministry of National Education, Technical and Vocational Training (MENETFP) on 08 May 2019 signed a deal to promote digital literacy in Africa.
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The African Development Bank has commissioned a study into the contribution of the jewelry manufacturing industry and its potential for job creation for women and youth in Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and the Republic of Guinea.
The initial US $1.4-million project, will entail a value chain analysis study examining the sector’s contributions to value addition and job creation. It will be financed under the Bank’s Transition Support Facility and implemented over 24 months, in coordination with the relevant ministries and agencies in all three...
21-May-2019 - The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), managed by the African Development Bank on 17 May 2019 approved a $995,000 grant to support the roll out of a sustainable procurement framework for Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in Ethiopia.
The SEFA grant will encourage private investments into hydropower projects through Ethiopia’s Renewable Energy Programme.
20-May-2019 - Le « Partenariat Making Finance Work for Africa » (MFW4A) et la « Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit » (GIZ) ont organisé, avec le soutien de la Banque africaine de développement, un atelier sur le développement de l'assurance en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre, les 14 et 15 mai 2019 à Abidjan.
20-May-2019 - « Éclairer l’Afrique et l’alimenter en énergie » est, depuis fin 2015, une des cinq grandes priorités stratégiques, « High 5 », de la Banque africaine de développement, qui vise un accès universel à l’électricité sur le continent, dont ont déjà bénéficié des dizaines de millions d’Africains vivant notamment dans des zones rurales.
20-May-2019 - African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, on 17 May 2019, pledged to deepen cooperation between his organization and Chad, to help the central African nation to meet critical development financing needs.
At a meeting with Chadian President Idriss Deby in the landlocked country’s capital, N’Djamena, Adesina also called on development partners to support Chad’s energy sector to increase power generation capacity to 400 megawatts per year, from less than 100 megawatts currently.
20-May-2019 - Le ministère des Mines et des Ressources Stratégiques de Madagascar, en collaboration avec la Banque Africaine de Développement, a présenté, vendredi 17 mai, les résultats d’une étude « sur la valorisation des revenus issus de l’exploitation des ressources extractives ».
20-May-2019 - The president of the Republic of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, is now officially a champion of the "African Leaders for Nutrition" (ALN) initiative, after being presented with his mission plan on Thursday 16 May by the African Development Bank's Director of Human Capital, Youth and Skills Development, Oley Dibba-Wadda.
The ceremony took place in the presidential palace of Kosyam, in Ouagadougou, attended by Pascal Yembiline, the Bank's Country Director for Burkina Faso and other officials.
17-May-2019 - Officially opening the continent’s digital economy summit in the Rwandan capital, President Paul Kagame called the task to advance Africa’s digital economy agenda “a pan-African responsibility.”
Africans need to realize “the depth and breadth of our responsibility in realizing the digital agenda which supports the broader development agenda,” Kagame told the packed auditorium on Day 2 of the Transform Africa Summit taking place at the Kigali Conference Center.
17-May-2019 - Cecilia Phiri is a student at Chancellor College in Malawi. Located in Zomba, about 300 km south of Lilongwe, Chancellor College (CHANCO) is the largest of the five constituent colleges composing the University of Malawi, which was established in 1965. Cecilia started her studies in 2014. She is majoring in Biology and Organic Chemistry.
17-May-2019 - Representatives from four African countries today called for a balanced approach to growing debt vulnerabilities to help low-income African countries meet their commitments to lenders.
The calls were made at a high-level consultative meeting to discuss debt vulnerabilities in Africa, jointly convened by the African Development Bank and the World Bank, in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
Ministers of finance and economy and representatives from several African countries attended the consultation along with development partners.