The program identified education and health sector reforms for ADB support through a policy-based loan. The program addressed four broad areas. The first two were reducing poverty and addressing inequalities, as well as accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment through better education and access to health services. The other two were making cities more livable by disallowing smoking in public places and supporting road safety through child-seat safety measures and strengthening governance and institutional capacity of the National Institute of Education.

The objective of the technical assistance (TA) was to revitalize and build resilience in the Ravi River Basin in Punjab province, Pakistan through improved environmental water management. The TA aimed to address the pollution crisis by improving monitoring and enforcement capacity, filling regulatory and institutional gaps, raising awareness on pollution risks and cost-efficient ways to reduce pollution, and increasing levels of investment and public policy priority toward this crisis.
This report validates the completion report's assessment of the TA.

The African Development Bank and the government of Côte d'Ivoire initiated a preliminary dialogue in Abidjan on July 18-22, 2022, to lay the foundations for the Bank's strategy in Côte d'Ivoire over the next five years.,
Bank experts, Ivorian government representatives and other stakeholders came together for a workshop to discuss achievements of the Bank portfolio in 2022 and the plan for 2023-2027.

Parts of Africa are heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world, requiring urgent action to tackle a challenge that has mounted over the last decade, participants at an Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program webinar heard. 

A road can change everything: the landscape it crosses, of course, but also the economic life of an entire region and the daily lives of the surrounding populations.
For Hamuza Nakwala, a small trader in northern Mozambique, it was a road in the Nacala corridor that changed his life. You can recognize Hamuza from afar, by his skullcap and his beard, and by his old black bicycle.

Forty km north of Abidjan, Azaguié is a seemingly quiet town. But here, like everywhere else in Côte d'Ivoire, no one has forgotten the civil war that tore the country apart in 2011, causing more than 3,000 deaths and thousands of displaced people. After the conflict, which tore apart communities in Côte d'Ivoire that had previously lived in harmony, community development became a key issue in the country's reconstruction.

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Country Report No. 2022/264

Country Report No. 2022/263