The African Legal Support Facility will participate in the 17th Annual Africa Energy Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from June 8-11, 2015. The event held annually allows participants to deliberate about developments in Africa’s power sector.
Over the course of three days, the African Legal...
Panelists at high-level event on climate change on Tuesday have renewed their call for a strong and universal climate change agreement with increased flows of funds, sufficient to fulfill Africa’s development aspirations. This is in addition to the need to have adequate, predictable,...
The 2015 African Ecological Futures report, launched Tuesday, May 26 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, during the 50th Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and celebration of the 50th anniversary of the institution.
This publication, jointly produced by the AfDB and the World...
Le programme de résilience à la sècheresse et de développement durable des pays de la corne d’Afrique a pour objectif global la contribution à la réduction de la pauvreté, la sécurité alimentaire et l’accélération du développement économique à travers l’augmentation de revenu en milieu rural. Pour...
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) has called for proposals to support the creation of an enabling policy and market environment for green mini-grids (GMGs) in an effort to address barriers to growth and unlock private investment in the sector.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, unreliable...
At its governing body meetings last week, the $8.1 billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF) endorsed 9 African nations to serve as pilot countries for critical aspects of climate-smart development, with six pilot countries for climate resilience and three for sustainable forests....
21-May-2015
Zambia - Lusaka Sanitation Program – Climate Resilient Sustainable Infrastructure - ESMF Summary – 05 2015
Zambia loses 1.3 percent of GDP due to public health impacts of poor sanitation (Water and Sanitation Program, 2012), which results in child malnutrition, illness and premature death. The economic burden of inadequate sanitation falls most heavily on the poor who are most likely to have inadequate...
15-May-2015
Opportunities abound in Mali’s promising renewable energy sector, says new country profile
The African Development Bank (AfDB), in partnership with the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and the Government of Mali, has launched the Renewable Energy in Africa: Mali Country Profile. The publication, released on May 7, highlights the country’s current inroads in renewable energy as well as...