UNIDO Director General, Kandeh Yumkella on February 18, 2013 in Tunis, called on the Bank Group and had a talk with president Donald Kabaruka. The two men brainstormed on the global agenda of the World Economic Forum (WEF), with focus on energy and infrastructure investments in Africa. “The meeting...

4,000 loans and grants for a total of US$36 billion 95% of Cape Verde’s population have access to power The distance between Bamako and Dakar reduced by 200 km The African Development Fund (ADF) was created in 1972 to accompany the least fortunate African economies on the road to social...

The study falls within the context of Bank support to the country to face the challenges of water shortage and the low availability and harnessing of water resources in order to sustainably improve the living conditions of the rural population. Current support from development partners is dispersed...

The Government of Malawi through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has requested the Bank to support the Smallholder Irrigation and Value Addition Project which seeks to reduce poverty and ensure sustainable food security to the rural communities in Malawi by increasing agricultural...

The African Development Bank is hosting on 4-7 February 2013 a conference to promote the conditions for decisive support to the Priority Action Plan of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) in West Africa. This meeting will lead to the selection of four flagship projects to...

The African Development Bank is hosting in Tunis a delegation from the World Bank Group in a series of meetings from Monday, January 21 to Wednesday, January 23, 2013 to discuss the joint strategy planning between the two Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). The goal of the meeting is to...

The proposed Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project will cover at most five rural districts selected from the Northern, Southern and Central regions of Sierra Leone. The overall goal of the project is to contribute to Sierra Leone’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS)-Agenda for Change and...

The African Water Facility (AWF) held its 12th Governing Council meeting on November 22-23, in Tunis. The meeting narrowed in on the progress made on the implementation of the AWF Strategy 2012-2016, adopted late 2011, and on AWF’s overall progress and achievements. Specifically, the discussions...

Event: Luncheon for Members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to New Delhi In today’s global economy we are all interrelated, interdependent. Decoupling is not possible. A 2% slowdown in the global economy implies a 1% decline in Africa’s annual growth. The ongoing crisis and concerns about...