Category: Investments

An African Development Bank-financed and supervised water and sanitation project, now helping to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Malawi, has won the prestigious Prince Talal International Prize for Human Development. The Integrated Urban Water and Sanitation Project for Mzimba Town project, co-financed by the OPEC Fund for International Development and the Malawian Government, won the award in the ‘governments… Read More

The Republic of Ireland has become the African Development Bank Group’s 81st shareholder, following a declaration issued by the institution’s President, Akinwumi Adesina, on 24 April 2020.  Ireland’s application to join the African Development Bank Group was approved during the Annual meetings of the Board of Governors of the Bank Group held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in June 2019. In… Read More

Bright sunshine has replaced the rosy light of dawn. But Abel Gaber has no time to admire the view of Cairo on this spring morning. Now in his fifties, the agronomic engineer is too busy supervising his employees on his 130-hectare farm. His is an unusual – and experimental – farm in the Egyptian landscape, in the governorate of Al… Read More

Loubna Karba, 32 ans, mère de deux enfants, remplit une fiche à la réception de l’hôpital public de Rabat, la capitale du Maroc. Elle s’y rend pour soigner une blessure au bras. Loubna détient une carte d’assurance maladie, délivrée aux bénéficiaires du régime d’assistance médicale (RAMED), qui lui permet d’accéder facilement aux soins de santé, sans être confrontée à l’obstacle… Read More

Le timbre du muezzin fait écho dans tout le village, encore endormi, de Douar Bouazza, à 20 kilomètres au sud-ouest de Marrakech. Ahmed Hassani, lui, roule déjà sur sa mobylette à travers ses luxuriants champs d’olives et d’orges. Agriculteur d’une quarantaine d’années, il se réjouit de l’arrivée de l’électricité dans le village. Comme tout le monde, ici. Le courant lui… Read More

We are in a battle against time to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. While tackling the Coronavirus pandemic has grabbed global attention, a new crisis that could claim a lot more lives is brewing in Africa: massive locust invasions. Billions of desert locusts are ravaging countries all across East Africa, including Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, and Djibouti. It… Read More

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic must be coordinated and targeted at livelihoods to prevent an upsurge in inequality, delegates at an African Development Institute (ADI) webinar urged on Wednesday. “This is an opportunity to re-think macro-economic policy in Africa. We should not go back to our old ways. The sense of urgency that is coming from the crisis… Read More

For Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV), 2019 was a year of helping the African Development Bank Group and its Regional Member Countries (RMCs) to transform experience into knowledge and learning through independent evaluations.  IDEV has supported both the Bank and its RMCs to achieve their development goals through the lens of the Bank’s High 5 priorities, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable… Read More