USD 23 Million Grant to Guinea - Access to Electricity for 60,000 Rural People
Tunis, 27 January 2011 – The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, approved on 21 January 2011, a USD 23-million grant to finance a rural electrification project in Guinea. The project will enable 60,000 rural people in 31 communities to access electric power along the national interconnected grid.
The project will help raise the rural electrification rate from 3% in 2009 to 15% in 2015 and reduce the rate of energy loss on the distribution network from 48% in 2009 to 20% in 2015.
AfDB Provides USD 12 Million Grant Resources to Finance ACBF Capacity Building Activities
Tunis – 12 January 2011- The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) on Wednesday, 12 January 2011 in Tunis signed a USD 12-million grant agreement to finance the ACBF’s activities in Africa.
Mainstreaming sectoral statistical systems in Africa
A guide to planning a coordinated national statistical system
This guide is written to assist staff of national statistical offices (NSOs) and of sectoral statistical offices to work together to mainstream sectoral statistical systems into NSSs by integrating their strategies into NSDS design and implementation. The intended outcome is a coordinated NSS - with shared goals and cross-cutting strategies - capable of efficiently and effectively monitoring development indicators.
AfDB Receives NOK 45 million to Support NEPAD- IPPF Programs
05-Feb-08 - The Norwegian Government has committed NOK 45 million to the NEPAD, Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF) covering the period, 2007-2009. According to a communiqué recently signed by the Norwegian Ambassador in Tunisia, Thorbjorn Gaustadsaether, and countersigned by AfDB Secretary-General,.
A Boost to Aid Partnership: Record Level of Support for the African Development Fund
The recent meeting of Africa’s development partners in London is set to become yet another significant event in the history of aid relations between Africa and its partners. At the talks, representatives of donor countries, meeting with officials from Africa and some international development institutions, agreed to a record level of support for the African Development Fund (ADF) – the principal source of African Development Bank Group funding of development programs in Africa’s poorer countries.