Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

The African Development Bank’s Transition Support Department (ORTS) hosted jointly with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) the launching of the 2015 edition of the OECD report States of Fragility 2015: Meeting Post-2015 Ambitions on Wednesday, April 8 in the...

In 1993, the United Nations declared March 22 “World Water Day”. For 22 years, the event has been marked globally each March 22 under a different theme. The theme for 2015 is “Water and Sustainable Development” and reflects the important role water plays in the future of the planet. This year’s...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been a catalyst for action by governments, civil society and the private sector to advance development. The effects have been direct, including mobilizing aid for social development, and indirect, through advocacy and global monitoring, particularly of...

The Government of Rwanda, spearheading an African Union-led initiative, and the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) have signed an agreement aimed at providing at least EUR 50 million (approx. USD 70 million) within an Africa-wide resource mobilization initiative. The initiative will finance...

In recent years Africa has undergone an economic transformation characterized by continuous growth, an emerging middle class, a demographic dividend, technology takeoff and the prospects of prosperity and innovation. But with rising urbanization, an epidemiological transition, and a growing and...

Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals in Africa requires training a dynamic and skilled health workforce. Most African countries suffer from considerable underfunding of the health sector, along with critical health workforce shortages, poor distribution and inadequate...

Water security in Africa is compromised by a highly variable climate with significant annual variability, experts said during the session “Building Water Resilience” at the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Kigali, Rwanda. The experts called on African...

The African Development Bank 2013 Annual Report, published on May 21 in Kigali, states that Africa has made some progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly with regard to reductions in maternal and infant mortality, education for all and the...

The African Development Bank is much more than a source of funding for projects in Africa. It is also a knowledge institution and statistics are one of its important products. To that end, the Bank recently published four documents that are valuable sources of information for policymakers, civil...