July 22, 2015
Africa: Inclusive Business, a Key Contributor to SDGs Implementation
The African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka has called for enhancement of policies to strengthen their role in growing inclusive business. Inclusive business, he said… Read more »
July 06, 2015
Africa: Sefa Doubled Its Grant Portfolio to Small - to Medium - Sized Clean Energy Projects in 2014 - Report
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) announced on June 11 that it more than doubled its project portfolio last year, with commitments of USD 6.5 million, for 10 new… Read more »
June 25, 2015
Africa: Zambia's Capital City to Receive U.S.$50 Million for Sustainable Urban Sanitation
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on June 24, 2015 approved a loan of US $50 million to finance the Lusaka Sanitation Program targeted at Lusaka,… Read more »
June 18, 2015
Africa: African Economic Conference 2015 - "Addressing Poverty and Inequality in the Post 2015 Development Agenda"
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June 05, 2015
Africa: Launch of AfDB-Gates Foundation Report On Extractives and Human Development
"Africa needs to adopt policies to transform its natural resources into human capital and better living standards for its citizens and learn from the existing good practices on the… Read more »
June 04, 2015
Africa: African Governments Urged to Invest in Sustainable Infrastructure
There's a huge demand for infrastructure in Africa and yet the money coming from donors and governments is not sufficient. As a result, African governments need to look at… Read more »
May 28, 2015
Africa: Akinwumi Adesina of Nigeria elected 8th President of the AfDB
Akinwumi Adesina was elected as the 8th President of the African Development Bank on Thursday, May 28. Read more »
May 27, 2015
Africa: Domestic Resources Needed to Fund Africa's Sustainable Development, Panel Hears
Domestic resource mobilization is key for Africa's growth. That was the consensus reached Tuesday at the "Financing Africa's Transformation: Billions to Trillions" seminar during… Read more »
April 17, 2015
Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso Receives New Support to Monitor Forest Sustainability Results
The Forest Investment Program (FIP) approved on Thursday, April 16 in Washington, DC $101,000 for Burkina Faso to ramp up its monitoring and reporting on its Gazetted Forests… Read more »
April 02, 2015
Africa: AfDB and WWF to Launch 'Africa Ecological Futures' Report That Explores Sustainable Development Scenarios for Africa
The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka has emphasized the importance for development institutions to make appropriate choices for sustainable development,… Read more »
March 27, 2015
Africa: Sefa to Support Solar Power Plant in Chad
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) has just approved a USD 780,000 preparation grant for the development of a first phase 40 MW of Starsol* Solar PV Plant near N'Djamena… Read more »
March 20, 2015
Africa: World Water Day 2015 - "Water and Sustainable Development"
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December 09, 2014
Africa: Continent Prepares for the Launch of the Africa Regional Integration Index
The African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) have joined forces to produce an Africa Regional… Read more »
Africa: AfDB, Rockefeller Foundation and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Convene Forum On Africa's Growth
The Rockefeller Foundation, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on Tuesday, December 9 convened the Africa Forum on… Read more »
October 17, 2014
Africa: AfDB Approves U.S. $40-Million 10-Year Line of Credit to East African Development Bank to Fund Regional Projects
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Wednesday, October 15 in Abidjan approved a US $40-million 10-year Line of Credit (LoC) for a pipeline of projects… Read more »
August 01, 2014
Africa: Tunisia - AfDB to Propose Key Solutions for Poverty Reduction
The new AfDB report entitled "Food Subsidies and Direct Social Transfer: Toward a Better Targeting of Monetary Poverty and Deprivation in Tunisia" has now been officially launched… Read more »
May 22, 2014
West Africa: Capacity Building for Ecowas Parliamentarians On Accountability in Social Sectors
On average 40-60% of public expenditure goes to social spending in Africa, which calls for improved governance, and voice and accountability in social spending. In order to foster… Read more »
February 20, 2014
Tunisia: Bank Reiterates Its Commitment to Help Tunisia Achieve Sustainable Development
On 19 February 2014, Mehdi Jomaa, head of the Tunisian government, and Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), met to discuss how to strengthen efforts… Read more »
January 09, 2014
Africa: AfDB Boards Adopts Safeguards System to Promote Sustainable Development
The Board of Directors of the of the African Development Bank (AfDB), on December 17 2013, in Tunis, adopted the Integrated Safeguards System - a cornerstone of its Ten-Year… Read more »
January 08, 2014
Africa: AfDB Approves a Results Measurement Framework to Better Achieve its Development Goals
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Board of Directors, on Wednesday, January 8 in Tunis, approved the Institution's Results Measurement Framework (RMF) for the period 2013-2016.… Read more »
October 11, 2013
Africa: "Sound institutions are key to sustainable development," says AfDB President Donald Kaberuka
Speaking on October 10, 2013 at a meeting organized by the Washington-based Brookings Institution, African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, said that… Read more »
October 03, 2013
Sudan: AfDB Grants U.S. $3.2 Million for Technical Assistance to Sudan for PRSP Preparation
On Thursday October 3, 2013, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of Sudan signed a Protocol of Agreement for Technical Assistance for the preparation of a full… Read more »
September 25, 2013
Africa: ADF-13 to Be Innovative, Focused and Strategic, says Bank President
The African Development Fund (ADF) and its donor-country partners opened on Wednesday, September 25 in Paris, the third and last round of the 13th replenishment of the ADF, the… Read more »
September 24, 2013
Tunisia: Money Transfers From Tunisians Living Abroad - an Untapped Goldmine
According to Chedly Ayari, Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT), "Migrants are development stakeholders in their own right." He reiterated this belief time and again at a… Read more »
Africa: African Leaders, Top Scholars Look at Regional Integration as Key to Africa's Continuing Growth
The eighth African Economic Conference will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from October 28-30, 2013 under the theme "Regional Integration in Africa". The conference is… Read more »