September 30, 2014
Africa: U.S. $ 2 Trillion in Investments Back Green Bonds to Tap Usd 100 Trillion Bond Market for Climate Solutions
Green Bond commitments announcement for next 12 months by issuers, banks and investors Read more »
September 23, 2014
Africa: AfDB Poised to Enhance Access to Additional Climate Finance for African Countries
To meet the full scale of the global climate challenge and seize the opportunities at hand, domestic efforts must be scaled up and simultaneously leveraged through an international… Read more »
September 24, 2014
Africa: AfDB and Sister Institutions Committed to Move Forward On the Sustainable Transport Agenda With Us $175 Bn in Financing
The historic one-day UN Climate Summit opened on September 23 in New York City with 125 heads of state in attendance. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and US President Barack Obama… Read more »
September 19, 2014
Africa: Climate Change - AfDB Continues to Show Strong Leadership in Financing Low Carbon Development in Africa
Six leading Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) provided in 2013 about USD 24 billion worldwide in financing for projects in developing and emerging economies that address the… Read more »
September 17, 2014
Africa: Guinea - AfDB Provides $18 Million in Budget Support to Improve Public Finance Management and the Business Climate in Guinea
In Abidjan on September 15, 2014, the African Development Bank (AfDB) granted Guinea US $18 million in budget assistance to support conditions for inclusive growth, through… Read more »
Africa: The AfDB Is Providing $18 Million in Budget Support to Improve the Management of Public Finances
In Abidjan on 15 September 2014, the African Development Bank (AfDB) granted Guinea US$ 18 million in budget assistance to support conditions for inclusive growth, through… Read more »
September 12, 2014
Congo-Kinshasa: Congo Seeks AfDB Help for Protection of Plant and Animal Species
On September 12, 2014 in Abidjan, African Development Bank (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka received the Congolese Minister of the Environment, Sustainable Development and the… Read more »
September 15, 2014
Africa: AfDB With Other MDBs Strongly Committed to Accelerating Action to Address Climate Change
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, September 11, 2014 - The African Development Bank will participate in the UN Secretary-General's Climate Summit on September 23, 2014. The Summit will… Read more »
September 12, 2014
Africa: Multilateral Development Banks agree to reinforce climate financing in advance of UN summit
The AfDB is strongly committed to financing climate resilient and low-carbon development in Africa. Read more »
September 10, 2014
West Africa: SEFA and Partners Launch West African Clean Energy Business Plan Competition in Abidjan
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) and partners co-organized in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, an event on Friday, September 4 to launch and promote the second West… Read more »
September 09, 2014
Africa: AfDB Approves U.S. $256 Million Investments in Infrastructure, Water, Sanitation and Health
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) held its first regular meeting since the Bank returned to its statutory headquarters in Abidjan on Monday,… Read more »
August 21, 2014
South Africa: African Water Facility Promotes Multiple Use Water Services
The African Water Facility (AWF) offered on August 20, 2014 a €1.3 million grant to the Water Research Commission of the Republic of South Africa to improve water delivery… Read more »
August 19, 2014
Africa: The African Water Facility Offers Special Training to Its Grantees to Increase Project Results and Effectiveness At Nairobi Workshop
The African Water Facility (AWF), with the support of the African Development Bank's (AfDB) East Africa Regional Resource Center, brought together more than 40 project managers… Read more »
July 31, 2014
Kenya: African Water Facility Promotes Private Sanitation Venture to Curb Water-borne Diseases and Turn Waste into Energy in Kenya
The African Water Facility has offered a €1.2 million grant to the Kisumu Water and Sewage Company (KIWASCO) to support an innovative project that will provide sanitation… Read more »
July 07, 2014
Africa: Climate Change Puts Decades of Development At Risk in Africa
Climate change threatens to undo decades of earnest effort to develop Africa unless sufficient investment can be mobilized to spur sustainable development and make the continent… Read more »
July 02, 2014
Africa: AU, AfDB Ink Agreement for Improved Access to Rural Water Supply and Sanitation for 5 Million People
The Government of Rwanda, spearheading an African Union-led initiative, and the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) have signed an agreement aimed at providing at least EUR 50… Read more »
July 04, 2014
Africa: Nine Low-income African Countries Win Funding to Transform Renewable Energy Services
At the semi-annual Climate Investment Funds (CIF) governing body meetings held June 25-28 in Montego Bay, Jamaica, nine African nations were chosen to receive new funding and… Read more »
Africa: Africa Climate Change Fund Launches First Call for Proposals
Grants of US$ 250,000 or more for climate finance readiness activities in African countries Read more »
July 03, 2014
Africa: AfDB Pushes its Green Bonds - New Projects, Principles and Products
Green growth is a corporate priority of the Bank that it achieves through the financing of eligible climate change mitigation and adaptation projects. AfDB Green Bonds - rated… Read more »
July 02, 2014
Africa: AU, AfDB Sign Agreement for Improved Access to Rural Water Supply and Sanitation for Five Million People
Five million people in ten countries - eight of them fragile states - are set to benefit from an Africa-wide resource mobilization initiative aimed at improving their access to… Read more »
June 30, 2014
Africa: Africa Shares Its Climate Knowledge At Climate Investment Funds Partnership Forum
At the recent Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Partnership Forum, held from 23-24 June in Montego Bay, Jamaica, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and representatives of other key… Read more »
Africa: AfDB Creates African Pilot Climate Technology and Finance Centre With GEF Support
The Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on June 27th the creation and management of a pilot Africa Climate Technology Finance Center and Network (ACTFCN) for a… Read more »
June 23, 2014
Burundi: AfDB Finances Construction of Two Hydropower Plants in Burundi
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) approved on 23 June 2014 in Tunis a US$22 million grant from its Fragile States Facility for the Jiji and… Read more »
May 22, 2014
Senegal: AfDB Announces a 60 Billion CFA Francs Loan to Fund Water and Sanitation Project in Senegal
On 22 May 2014, the African Development Bank (AfDB) announced a loan of 60 billion CFA francs (approximately US $127 million) to Senegal for a water and sanitation project. The aim… Read more »
May 27, 2014
Africa: Africa Tipped On Sound Water Management
Water security in Africa is compromised by a highly variable climate with significant annual variability, experts said during the session "Building Water Resilience" at the Annual… Read more »
