The African Development Bank’s 2019-2023 strategy for Ghana is producing tangible results, particularly in the agriculture and transport sectors, according to a mid-term review of the strategy
The African Development Bank held its 2022 virtual business opportunities seminar Spring edition from 12-13 April to provide an overview of its policies, operations, procurement rules and country activities.
The business opportunities seminar (BOS) offers companies, civil contractors, manufacturers, consultants, and suppliers from the Bank Group’s regional and non-regional members a one-stop-shop of information on how to provide goods and services to Bank-funded projects, how to partner with the Bank Group and on financing opportunities available for private sector projects.
Women farmers in Cote d’Ivoire will more easily find markets for their crops, thanks to a digital platform recently launched by UN Women.
Blaatto, part of the UN agency’s Buy From Women initiative, is targeting women smallholder farmers and members of women-led agricultural cooperatives in the country’s central region where access to markets is relatively poor. The word ‘blaatto’ means ‘come and buy’ in the region’s Baule language.
Who: African Development Bank and African Legal Support Facility
What: African Mining Indaba 2022
Where: Cape Town International Convention Center, South Africa (in-person)
When: 9th – 12th May 2022
The African Development Bank Group’s Annual Meetings in May will focus on the impact of climate change on Africa and the need for a just energy transition on the continent, the Bank Group’s Secretary General said on Wednesday.
Professor Vincent Nmehielle spoke during a virtual press conference convened to brief journalists about the agenda of the five-day meetings, to be held from 23 to 27 May in Accra, Ghana. ,
Watch Secretary General Vincent Nmehielle’s remarks
What: Virtual book launch
Who: Sahel and West Africa Club, African Development Bank, and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
When: 26 April 2022 12.00 – 13.00 GMT (Abidjan)
14.00 – 15.00 GMT+2 (Paris & Johannesburg) / 15.00 – 16.00 GMT +3 (Addis Ababa)
Where: Virtual – Click here to Register
African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina says “Africa must prepare for the inevitability of a global food crisis.” He was speaking about Africa’s priorities, as a guest at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center on Friday.
Fielding questions from the Council’s Africa Center Chair, Ambassador Rama Yade; Senior Fellow Aubrey Hruby; and Washington/UN correspondent for Jeune Afrique and The Africa Report, Julian Pecquet, the Bank chief called for an increased sense of urgency amid what he described as a once-in-a-century convergence of global challenges for Africa.
This paper documents the Chair's Summary of the Development Effectiveness Committee (DEC) discussion held on 5 April 2022. The committee discussed the Independent Evaluation Department’s (IED’s) Annual Evaluation Review 2022: Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations and Small Island Developing States.
The project was aimed at addressing critical urban environmental issues and improving basic service delivery by providing populations in selected municipalities with better access to municipal infrastructure and services. Its objective was to improve basic urban service provision in four growing municipalities of Dharan, Janakpur, Nepalgunj, and Siddharthanagar, through essential infrastructure investments in urban water supply and sanitation, urban solid waste management (SWM), and urban road sectors.
The project was to finance a slice of the 2006–2020 Master Plan, a medium-term investment plan for Guiyang Municipality. The project was to focus its activities on five segments of the plan: (i) urban water supply; (ii) rural water supply and irrigation; (iii) irrigation system rehabilitation; (iv) soil and water conservation; and (v) small water storage structures.
This report validates the completion report's assessment of the project. IED overall assessment: Less than successful.
