On internal policy matters, the Board approved the establishment of an Economic and Technical Cooperation Unit within the Bank to provide strategic and policy support to the Bank's operations departments on regional integration matters and serve as the Bank's primary interlocutor with external agencies on regional integration issues.

Following the example of the International Community, the African Development Bank (ADB), Wednesday, at the Temporary Relocation Agency, Tunis, commemorated the  International Women’s Day, on the theme «Women in Decision Making ».

The ADF loan is a balance of payments support for use in financing goods and services imports originating exclusively from ADB Group member countries. Amounting to 8.6 million units of account (US$ 12.63 million), the loan will facilitate the implementation of additional reform measures under the third Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP III) and the new Cotton Sector Action Plan.

M. Mohamed Gharbi, vice-président du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (Bad) chargé des opérations dans les régions Centre et Ouest, a estimé, lors de la cérémonie de signature, que « le renforcement des capacités humaines et institutionnelles est un besoin urgent pour le pays, en particulier dans le domaine de l’administration économique et financière ».

Delegates from 14 Middle Income Countries (MIC) met in Tunis on 13 March 2006 at a consultation meeting jointly organized by the African Development Bank and the World Bank, to discuss recent initiatives undertaken by both institutions to enhance Multilateral Development Banks engagement with MICs, and identify constraints MICs face in their relationships with MDBs and steps required to remain relevant and help them meet their development challenges.