Africa: Cop 25 - African Islands Want Their Place in the Sun As They Grapple With Climate Change

Africa's small island states are bearing the brunt of climate change, even though technology exists to prevent the worst impacts of extreme weather. Read more »

Africa: Cop 25 - Africa Pushes for Special Consideration in Madrid Climate Talks

As terrible floods inundate their country, close to 100 Kenyan delegates have convened in Madrid, Spain, along with thousands of global leaders, for the COP 25 climate conference. Read more »

Nigeria: African Development Bank Approves $124.2 Million Loan for Water Sector Reforms in Akure to Improve Access to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank on Thursday approved a $ 124.2 million loan to finance the Urban Water Sector Reform and Akure Water Supply and Sanitation… Read more »

Africa: Cop 25 - Kenya Experience Suggests Gender Equality Is Best Path to Achieve SDGs

Stakeholders at COP25 climate talks, citing Kenya's example, called on developing countries to boost women's involvement in the fight against climate change. Without gender… Read more »

Africa: COP 25 - African Parliamentarians Called on to Speak as One for their Voice to be Heard

African parliamentarians should speak as one to make their voice heard in climate negotiations, Arona Soumaré, the African Development Bank's principal expert in climate… Read more »

Africa: Are Nature Based Solutions the Key to Africa's Climate Response?

While the UN climate talks are celebrating their 25th year, carbon emissions around the world have continued to climb. For many, that is where natural solutions could play a key… Read more »

Africa: Government of Flanders Grants 1 Million Euros to the Africa Climate Change Fund to Support 5 Projects in Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa

The Government of Flanders this year has committed 1 million euros to the Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) to support five projects in three African countries - Malawi, Mozambique… Read more »

Africa: Africa Climate Change Fund Grants Nearly $1 Million to Support Access to Climate Finance in Benin and Lesotho

The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) has approved a project proposal for a total of $997, 524 to support Benin and Lesotho to access international climate finance, an initiative… Read more »

Africa: Hola, Madrid! African Development Bank Takes the Continent's Climate Agenda to Cop25 in Spain

The Bank is playing a leading role in guiding progress on climate change on the continent. The Bank has doubled its total climate change commitment to $25 billion between 2020 and… Read more »

Africa: Project Successes in Morocco and Ghana Offer Lessons in Gender and Climate Change

The African Development Bank recognizes the importance of addressing gender in efforts to combat climate change and its effects in order to increase the benefits of its projects… Read more »

Zambia: African Development Bank and Partners Improving Sanitation for Lusaka's Low-Income Suburbs

"Sometimes, it looks to me like surgery in the belly of an ancient beast," says Herbert Chinokoro, senior water and sanitation engineer at the African Development Bank's Country… Read more »

Africa: Toilets in Schools Matter - How African Development Bank Is Making a Difference

At 14, Mercy Kamanga dropped out of school at Standard eight in St Paul's Primary School in Mzimba, Malawi, due to a lack of suitable sanitation facilities. Read more »

Africa: Why the Africa Investment Forum Matters for the Continent's Energy Transformation - - Wale Shonibare, Acting Vice-President, Power, Energy, Climate Change & Green Growth, African Development Bank

The African Development Bank's New Deal on Energy for Africa underlines the urgency to power the continent in order to end energy poverty, catalyze industrialization, and stimulate… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Climate Change Initiative - Top Experts Form the Adaptation Benefits Mechanism Board

The African Development Bank has appointed a group of renowned experts to the board of a continental initiative to mobilize financing for resilience to the negative impacts of… Read more »

Africa: Zaria Springs to Life As African Development Bank Project Provides 20,000 Households With Potable Water

"When the water was first released, we filled up our water containers, large and small, for the days ahead when the taps would go dry again. Surprisingly, the next day the taps… Read more »

Madagascar: African Development Bank Launches Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme

The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Government of Madagascar and the African Risk Capacity (ARC), has launched the Africa Disaster Risks Financing Programme… Read more »

Africa: African Development Bank, Climate Investment Funds and the Coalition for Green Capital to Develop Green Financing Instruments for Africa

The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), has commissioned the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) to prepare a study on the creation of… Read more »

Africa: African Development Bank Approves $31.3 Million Grants for Water and Sanitation Facilities

The African Development Bank Group on 9 October, 2019 approved an African Development Fund (ADF) grant of $30 million and a $1.3 million grant from the Rural Water Supply and… Read more »

Senegal: African Development Bank Partners With Senegal to Host 2021 World Water Forum

A Senegalese government delegation, led by the country's Minister of Water and Sanitation, His Excellency Serigne Mbaye Thiam, briefed the African Development Bank on Senegal's… Read more »

Africa: Climate Action Summit - Three Questions to Dr Anthony Nyong, Director Climate Change and Green Growth Department

Leaders from all over the world met in New York recently to discuss efforts to tackle climate change. Read more »

Africa: Unga 2019 - African Development Bank to Help Boost Climate Change Adaptation Funding to $12.5bn

African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina on Tuesday pledged to boost funding commitments by $12.5bn to help countries adapt to the effects of climate change between 2020… Read more »

Africa: Can Africa Afford to 'Strand' Its Fossil Fuels?

In recent years, "stranded assets" have attracted a lot of interest, as climate-driven changes to our physical environment amplify the calls for a seamless transition to low-carbon… Read more »

Africa: UN Climate Action Summit - High Level Mdb Statement

Multilateral Development Banks have been at the forefront of supporting our clients' efforts to pursue ambitious climate action for more than a decade. In light of growing climate… Read more »

Cameroon: Yaoundé Aims for Zero Floods By 2020, Thanks to Funding From the African Development Bank

The Yaoundé Sanitation Project (PADY) has reduced the number of floods in the Cameroonian capital by five times (from 15 to 3). Read more »

Nigeria: African Development Bank's Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa Approves $500,000 Grant for Clean Energy

The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), managed by the African Development Bank, has approved a $500,000 grant to support the development and launch of the Nigeria Energy… Read more »