Le Conseil d’administration de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé, le 28 octobre 2015 à Abidjan, un prêt de 190,12 millions d’Euros et un don de 1,5 million d’Euros à la Tunisie pour contribuer au financement du Projet de modernisation des infrastructures routières (PMIR). Le prêt et le don, accordés à l’Etat tunisien, serviront plus précisément à financer la réhabilitation de 719 kilomètres de routes classées, la reconstruction de 23 ouvrages d’art, et la réalisation d’études visant l’amélioration de la gestion du sous-secteur routier.

The office of the Special Envoy on Gender (SEOG) and the Department for Agriculture and Agro-industry (OSAN) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) commissioned a report, “Economic Empowerment of African Women through Equitable Participation in Agricultural Value Chains”.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessionary arm of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, on Friday, October 23, 2015 approved an African Development Fund loan of US $5.0 million to Malawi for a water and sanitation project in the town of Mzimba. 

On Thursday, October 22, at the "Feeding Africa” conference in Dakar, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and KfW in its role as Germany's development bank, announced a broad collaboration that aims to advance the agricultural transformation agenda across the African continent. The collaboration seeks to develop solutions that drive inclusive growth in Africa by expanding access to financial services in the agricultural sector.

The adoption of an action plan and wide-ranging partnerships to transform African agriculture into viable agri-business were the main outcomes of the three-day high-level conference on Africa’s agricultural transformation, which ended in Dakar, Senegal, on Friday.