The Governments of Ghana and Togo realized that in order to reduce poverty, efforts were needed to enhance access to basic social services and infrastructure available to the poor. Consequently, in Ghana, the Government developed a Strategy of Poverty Reduction (GPRS 1, 2003-2005) that laid...

The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania with the assistance from African Development Bank (AfDB) intends to upgrade the Dodoma City Outer Ring Road (110.2 km). The project is being implemented by Tanzania Roads Agency (TANROADS). TANROADS is an Executive Agency under the Ministry of Works...

Inspired by Korea’s successful, rapid industrialization, the World Bank and the African Development Bank have pledged to increase investments in education, in financing for innovative technologies, in science and technology laboratories, and in providing risk guarantees to support initiatives to...

Les Gouvernements de la Guinée et de la Guinée Bissau ont sollicité le soutien de la Banque pour contribuer au financement du projet d’aménagement de la route Boké-Québo (une section de 21 km en Guinée Bissau et une section de 86 kms en Guinée Conakry), qui fait partie du corridor routier...

Context Dakar, the capital of Senegal, is facing the familiar challenges of rapid urbanization, including transportation, housing, mobility, and the security of goods and people. Home to nearly a quarter of the Senegalese population of approximately 15 million people, Dakar sits on a...

Rehema Tukai grew up in Kondoa and works in Dodoma, Tanzania’s capital city. Until now, visiting her family in Kondoa involved a five-hour journey along a bumpy and dusty road. Thanks to a new road co-funded by the African Development Bank, it takes her a little over one hour to travel the same...

At a national event at Jamhuri Stadium in Tanzania’s capital, Dodoma, marking the 54th anniversary of the United Republic of Tanzania – the union of the Republic of Tanganyika and the People’s Republic of Zanzibar – Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli praised the African Development Bank for...

President Akinwumi Adesina is attending the 2018 anniversary of the union between the Republic of Tanganyika and the People’s Republic of Zanzibar that gave birth to the United Republic of Tanzania. Adesina, who was invited as a special guest, will deliver remarks at the event, scheduled for...

After the war that ended in 2003, the Government of Liberia, with the assistance of the donor community, developed in 2008 the first Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS). The PRS defined the development programme of the Government of Liberia. Since then, a new Poverty Reduction Strategy called The “...