December 02, 2019
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 »
November 29, 2019
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 »
November 25, 2019
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 »
November 19, 2019
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 »
November 13, 2019
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 »
November 09, 2019
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 »
October 24, 2019
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 »
October 23, 2019
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 »
October 14, 2019
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 »
October 11, 2019
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 »
October 10, 2019
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 »
October 07, 2019
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 »
September 25, 2019
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 »
September 23, 2019
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 »
September 20, 2019
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 »
September 19, 2019
Rwanda: Rwandan Women Making a Difference At Water Treatment Plant
About 30 minutes' drive outside Kigali, the tidy capital of Rwanda, past lush forests, marshland and makeshift roadside stores advertising their offerings on hand-painted signs, a… Read more »
September 12, 2019
Africa: Three Questions to Wale Shonibare, Acting VP, Power, Energy, Climate & Green Growth
What is the Desert to Power Initiative? Read more »
September 05, 2019
Zimbabwe: African Development Bank, Partners Launch $96.7 Million Post-Cyclone Idai Recovery Projects
The African Development Bank, with the World Bank and the government of Zimbabwe on 2 September 2019 launched post cyclone Idai recovery projects totaling $96.7 million to restore… Read more »
August 23, 2019
South Sudan: African Development Bank's Water and Sanitation Project Set to Improve Lives in South Sudan
The water tankers of Juba - more than a thousand of them - are a daily feature of the city and its environs, supplying much needed potable water for the residents, but at a higher… Read more »
August 29, 2019
Somalia: African Development Bank Group Signs $28.8 Million Grant Deal With Somalia for Road and Water Projects
The African Development Bank Group on 27 August 2019 signed two grants for $28.8 million for road and water supply projects to improve livelihoods in Somalia and boost resilience. Read more »
August 27, 2019
Africa: African Development Bank Supports Post Cyclone Recovery Efforts With $24.7 Million
The African Development Bank Group on 21 August 2019 signed a deal to support Zimbabwe's post-cyclone Idai recovery plans with $24.7 million as part of its lead role to help… Read more »
August 23, 2019
Africa: President Adesina At G7 Summit in Biarritz
The president of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, will head a delegation to the G7 summit, to be held from 24 to 26 August in Biarritz, in south-western France. Read more »