Africa Development Bank’s Vice President,  Solomon Asamoah, represented the Bank at the just concluded Global Entrepreneurship Summit  that took place July 25th- 26th 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. Now in its sixth year, the event was co-hosted by US President, Barack Obama, and his...

The African Development Bank held high-level consultations with the Dutch government about developing a platform for providing women with market information to enhance their participation in agricultural trade. The Bank’s Special Envoy on Gender, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and experts from the...

On July 10, 2015, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank approved the six-year Strategy of the African Natural Resources Center (ANRC). The Strategy is intended to operationalize the Center by spelling out the Center’s strategic approach to assisting governments in their...

The principal objectives of this environmental and social assessment and planning included among others: (i) To describe the baseline environmental conditions of the project sites; (ii) To find as well as to predict what problems are likely to be caused by the implementation of the Small Scale...

The African Development Bank and the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) are poised to boost business opportunities in Africa’s cocoa sector, including youth employment and empowering women participation. Both institutions recently met in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in order to see how they can...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), in its meeting on June 24, 2015 in Abidjan, approved the institution’s Knowledge Management Strategy (KMS) for 2015-2020. The vision of this Knowledge Management Strategy is for the AfDB to become the premier knowledge institution in...

The African Economic Conference (AEC) 2015, jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will take place from November 2-4 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has extended its multimillion multi-phased Horn of Africa drought resilience programme with a US $16-million soft loan to Djibouti and a US $14-million grant to Sudan. The African Development Fund (ADF) loan and grant were approved by the AfDB Group’s...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will support Egypt’s National Drainage programme (NDP) to boost agricultural production and household income generation with a €50.20 million loan approved by AfDB Board on Wednesday, May 17 in Abidjan. The programme aims to optimize the benefits of irrigation...