01-Oct-2012 - Le projet d’amélioration du réseau routier Bamako-Dakar, qui a remporté, le 8 juin 2012 à Washington DC, le prix d’excellence du Trésor américain pour «le projet à fort impact sur le développement en Afrique», est assurément un des projets phares de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD).
01-Oct-2012 - A two-man delegation from China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), led by its Deputy Director General, Xu Bing, paid a visit Thursday to the Bank Group in Tunis and was received by President Donald Kaberuka.
Discussions with President Kaberuka revolved around cooperation between the two institutions.
29-Sep-2012 - The African Development Bank is conducting a second workshop with the theme “Improving Statistics for Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development – Africa Action Plan” from August 27-29 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first workshop was held in Kigali, Rwanda, in June.
28-Sep-2012 - The AfDB’s Malawi Field Office (MWFO) disseminated the Bank’s Regional Integration Strategy Paper for Southern Africa at a workshop jointly organized with the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Lilongwe, Malawi on September 21, 2012.
26-Sep-2012 - Mme Leila Mokadem, représentante-résidente de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) au bureau régional du Sénégal a participé au Conseil présidentiel qui s’est tenu le 19 septembre 2012 au palais de la république du Sénégal, sous la présidence effective du chef de l’Etat, Macky Sall.
26-Sep-2012 - African Development Bank (AfDB) staff from the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC3) and the Sierra Leone Field Office (SLFO) undertook a mission from September 3-7 in Sierra Leone to support the Government in its efforts to mainstream green growth into its Agenda for Prosperity. The Agenda for Prosperity, which is the country’s third Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP3), is currently being drafted by a broad spectrum of stakeholders across all government ministries.
26-Sep-2012 - The African Development Bank “AAA” ratings were affirmed with a stable outlook by the four leading international rating agencies that rate the Bank.
25-Sep-2012 - The inauguration of the African Development Bank Group’s Liberia Field Office by President Donald Kaberuka in Monrovia last week echoed memories of Romeo Horton, Liberia’s foremost financier and central bank governor, who fought to establish the Bank at a time when the idea of such an institution sounded so strange as to elicit the question: “Why do you need an African Development Bank?”
25-Sep-2012 - La BAD, la FAO et le Sénégal ont signé le vendredi 21 septembre 2012 à Dakar, un accord de don d’un million de dollars pour l’aide d’urgence au monde rural. Le ministre sénégalais de l’économie et des finances, gouverneur de la BAD pour le Sénégal, Amadou Kane, le représentant résident de la FAO, Amadou Ouattara et la représentante résidente régionale de la BAD au Sénégal, Leila Mokaddem, sont les cosignataires du document d’accord tripartite de don aux populations sinistrées frappées successivement par la sécheresse et les inondations.
25-Sep-2012 - La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a pris part à la cérémonie de lancement, par le Roi Mohammed VI, des travaux de triplement et de renouvellement de la voie ferroviaire entre Casablanca et Kenitra. Ces travaux s’inscrivent dans le cadre global du projet d’augmentation de la capacité de l’axe ferroviaire Tanger-Marrakech financée par le Groupe de la Banque.
24-Sep-2012 - To what extent are the public sector operations financed by the African Development Bank relevant to the current development context? How effective are they at delivering the expected results in a cost-effective and efficient manner and reaching out to all the planned beneficiaries, both women and men? Have risks during implementation been addressed and mechanisms put in place to ensure the continued flow of benefits after project completion? What lessons can be learned to guide future operations and programming?
21-Sep-2012 - At Sophie, Old Congo Town, in Monrovia on Wednesday, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka and Liberia’s Finance Minister and AfDB Governor Amara Konneh jointly unveiled the plaque and cut the ribbon to inaugurate the Bank’s Liberia Field Office (LRFO). The office will bring the Bank’s services closer to its client, speed up its development assistance and deepen its involvement in aid coordination in the county.
21-Sep-2012 - The Mid-Term Review of the African Development Fund (ADF-12) implementation concluded in Praia, Cape Verde on September 14 with donors and stakeholders encouraging the African Development Bank (AfDB) to continue working to achieve results in its development projects and institutional reforms.
The meeting was officially opened on September 13 by Cape Verde’s Finance and Planning Minister, Cristina Duarte, and was attended by Deputies from donor countries; AfDB Governors for Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi; as well as the Bank’s President...
21-Sep-2012 - The African Development Bank Group and the Government of Liberia have signed a US $4.6-million grant agreement to support the country’s Integrated Public Financial Management Reform Program.
The agreement was signed on Tuesday in Monrovia by the Bank’s Resident Representative, Margaret Hilda Kilo, and Finance Minister Amara Konneh, in the presence of AfDB President Donald Kaberuka, who led a Bank delegation on a two-day working visit.
20-Sep-2012 - The African Development Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, has praised Liberia’s impressive economic achievements in recent years and expressed the Bank’s determination to continue to provide needed support to the country in its quest for inclusive and shared growth.
“Liberia is a shining example of what happens in terms of development when a country has good leadership,” President Kaberuka said during a brief interaction with Liberian officials and the media on arrival at the Roberts International Airport in Monrovia on Tuesday evening.
20-Sep-2012 - A high-level delegation from the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) visited the African Development Bank Group on September 18 in Tunis to share industry knowledge and lessons learned that may help revolutionize aviation in Africa. The workshop entitled “Developing Africa’s Air Transportation” was chaired by Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Director of Development Research, and Tas Anvaripour, Manager for Infrastructure Finance in the Private Sector Department of the African Development Bank.
20-Sep-2012 - The Board of the African Development Fund approved on Thursday, September 20, US $348 million in funding for a US $1.26-billion electricity highway project between Kenya and Ethiopia.
Due for commissioning in November 2017, the project involves the construction of a 1,068-kilometre high-voltage direct current 500 kV transmission line between the two countries. It also includes putting up of associated converter stations at Wolayta-Sodo (Ethiopia) and Suswa (Kenya), with a power transfer capacity of up to 2,000 MW.
20-Sep-2012 - A high-level delegation from the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) visited the African Development Bank Group on September 18 in Tunis to share industry knowledge that may help revolutionize aviation in Africa. The workshop entitled “Developing Africa’s Air Transportation” was co-chaired by Tas Anvaripour, Manager for Infrastructure Finance in the Private Sector Department of the African Development Bank.
Question: What is the project about and what developmental impacts are expected?
20-Sep-2012 - Au cours de sa visite au Sénégal, le 11 septembre 2012, le président de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), Donald Kaberuka, a réaffirmé l’engagement de l’Institution à soutenir les secteurs susceptibles de faciliter l’emploi des jeunes et des femmes dans le pays.
''J’entends renforcer cette coopération en finançant des secteurs susceptibles de faciliter l’emploi des jeunes et des femmes'', a affirmé M. Kaberuka à l’issue d’une rencontre avec le chef de l’Etat sénégalais, Macky Sall.
19-Sep-2012 - The regional consultation on the African Development Bank’s Human Capital Development Strategy took place in Ouagadougou from July 30 to 31, 2012. Public and private sector actors, non-governmental and civil society organizations as well as youth associations operating in the social sectors in West Africa participated in the consultation.