The African Development Bank, through its Statistical Capacity Building (SCB) program, conducted a regional training workshop on the Strategic Plans for Agricultural and Rural Statistics (SPARS) for English-speaking national experts in agriculture statistics and strategy development in Lusaka,...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, September 9 committed a grant of US $22-million to finance water and sanitation facilities in the West Kordofan State of Sudan and a country-wide Institutional Capacity Development Program. More than 130,000 people (69,000 women) in the...

On September 4, 2015 in Abidjan, the African Development Bank (AfDB) signed a Fund for Africa Private Sector Assistance (FAPA) grant agreement of US $947,625 (558.970 million CFA francs) with the General Confederation of Côte d'Ivoire Businesses (CGECI) to support and develop young entrepreneurs in...

The need to adequately equip Africa’s health facilities in order to deal with deadly epidemics was a key subject at the first Baobab Forum held at the African Development Bank headquarters in Abidjan on August 31. The ill state of health infrastructure in Guinea, where the first case...

“We must light up and power Africa – as a Bank we will launch a new deal on energy for Africa”   Former Nigerian Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina formally assumed office as the 8th elected President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Tuesday, September 1, 2015. At a...

Building strong institutions is key to achieving Africa’s development. This was underscored by opinion leaders attending African Development Bank’s first Baobab Forum at its headquarters in Abidjan. The forum is a new initiative bringing together a number of distinctive African opinion leaders,...

The African Development Bank has launched a report that seeks to empower women to take the lead in agribusiness and agriculture value chains thus participating in Africa’s economic growth process. The report, Economic Empowerment of African Women Through Equitable Participation in...

The office of the Special Envoy on Gender (SEOG) and the Department for Agriculture and Agro-industry (OSAN) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) launched a new report, “Economic Empowerment of African Women through Equitable Participation in Agricultural Value Chains” on Thursday, August 27 at...

Inaugural Meles Zenawi Foundation Symposium focuses on “The African Democratic Developmental State” The inaugural Meles Zenawi Foundation (MZF) symposium on development took place in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, on August 21, 2015. The symposium was a partnership between the MZF, the African...