This Project Performance Audit Report (PPAR) concerns the second line of credit granted in March 1993 to the Banque Nationale Agricole (BNA) to help achieve food self-sufficiency and to promote development of the agricultural and fisheries sectors. This line of credit for UA 50 million was...

This operation is an ADF loan of UA 100 million with a first tranche of UA 67 million and a second tranche of UA 33 million. It was approved by the AfDB Board on 1st October 2009. It was originally anticipated that first tranche disbursement would take place in March 2010 and the second tranche in...

Over the past several years, the Bank has strengthened its focus on knowledge and learning. The ‘Knowledge Management Strategy 2008-2012’ spells out the Bank’s vision of becoming the ‘premier knowledge bank for Africa’. Knowledge includes strategic and applied research, statistical and data work,...

This approach paper is prepared to define the need for and objectives of the Review of Bank Assistance to sub-Regional Development Finance Institutions (DFIs). It demarcates the scope, outlines the methodology, and specifies the expected deliverables of the Review. The paper also estimates the...

This Country Report has been prepared by Fiscus Limited, UK, in collaboration with Mokoro Ltd, Oxford, as one of three country reports in the Joint Evaluation of Public Financial Management Reform, managed by the African Development Bank, Denmark and Sweden. The evaluation looked at two main...

This Country Report has been prepared by Fiscus Limited, UK, in collaboration with Mokoro Ltd, Oxford, as one of three country reports in the Joint Evaluation of Public Financial Management Reform, managed by the African Development Bank, Denmark and Sweden. The evaluation looked at two main...

The evaluation of public financial management reform is one of several joint evaluations, undertaken under the umbrella of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, which are focused on issues identified as key for using country systems and where looking at donor assistance collectively makes...

In the aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis, African policy makers have been rethinking their economic strategies for the next decade1 . Given the large share of low-income countries (LICs) on the continent, poverty reduction still tops the policy agenda. At the same time, Africa’s...

African Development Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, on Thursday, January 9, 2014, in Tunis, held talkswith the diplomatic community accredited to Tunisia, to look forward to the prospects the new year might hold for the continent. The meeting came during the Bank’s annual luncheon with...