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    • The African Development Bank is providing major financial support to Benin to sustainably increase poultry production in that country
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Benin: African Development Bank to invest €102 million to boost poultry meat production

Implementation of the Programme in Benin’s savannah region will directly benefit some 50,000 people, with a further 500,000 benefiting indirectly, of which 30% of each target groups will be women

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (http://AfDB.org) meeting in Abidjan today approved a €102.12 million loan to Benin to implement the first phase of the Agriculture Transformation Programme in the country’s savannah region. The programme aims to sustainably increase national poultry meat production in line with…

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    • The African Development Fund is providing significant support to Benin to increase the private sector's contribution to the country's economy
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Benin: the African Development Fund grants an additional $28 million in financing to boost the private sector’s contribution to the country's economy

The objective of this financial support is to increase the contribution made by Benin's private sector to the economy

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund approved additional financing of $28 million for Benin to continue the Economic Governance and Private Sector Development Support Programme (PAGE-DSP) on 24 November 2025. Following phases I and II, which were successfully implemented in 2023 and 2024, respectively, the objective of…

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    • GAFSP Senegal food security support project in the Louga Matam and Kaffrine regions
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Benin: African Development Bank Approves Over $30 Million to Protect Farmers from Climate Shocks and Food Insecurity

The project strengthens the Beninese government's efforts to establish agricultural insurance, whose pilot phase is managed by Benin's National Fund for Agricultural Development (FNDA)

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group  (www.AfDB.org) has approved $30.25 million in financing for a groundbreaking climate protection and agricultural sector resilience program in Benin. Thanks to this approval, Beninese farmers, particularly those in northern Benin, will no longer have to fear losing their entire harvest…

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    • Almost one million additional people in Benin should benefit from access to drinking water thanks to the project supported by the African Development Bank
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Benin: some one million people to benefit from loan of EUR 118 million from the African Development Bank and Africa Growing Together Fund to supply more drinking water

The African Development Bank is contributing EUR 75.63 million in financial support

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a loan of EUR 118.63 million to Benin to implement the Drinking Water Supply for Resilience in Rural Areas Programme in Abidjan with the aim of supplying drinking water to an additional 965,000 people in the West African…

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    • Benin's Minister of Economy and Finance, Romuald Wadagni, announces $ 2 million for the African Development Fund at the opening session of the Mid-Term Review of the 16th Replenishment of the Fund. Cotonou, October, 2024
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ADF-16: Benin to contribute $2 million to the African Development Fund

Benin becomes the seventh African country to contribute, joining Algeria, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa

Benin joins six other African countries that contribute to ADF; 74 million people in Africa have benefitted from improvements in agriculture for food security through the Fund. Benin has pledged $2 million to the next replenishment of the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group.…

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    • Justine Gantekpin’s thriving market garden in Djeffa, expanded thanks to the support of project
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Modernizing Agriculture: African Development Fund Project Changes Lives in Benin’s Ouémé Valley

Launched in 2014 with €63.63 million in funding from the African Development Bank Group’s concessional window, the African Development Fund, the project has supported 14 localities across Benin’s Ouémé, Zou, and Atlantique districts

The sun rises early over Djeffa, a locality in southeastern Benin’s Sèmè-Podji district where Justine Gantekpin is already tending to her flourishing vegetable farm. Thanks to the African Development Fund Project for Support of Agricultural Infrastructure in the Ouémé Valley (http://apo-opa.co/3Ydp5vP), Gantekpin has expanded her farm from a small plot…

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African Development Fund crucial in development and modernisation of Benin sheep industry

The project, completed in 2017, recorded satisfactory results between 2012 and 2017: the annual mortality rate fell from 12 percent to 3 percent for cattle

In the early 2000s, Benin reformed its sheep industry, largely because meat and milk production was insufficient to meet local demand. The objective was to r0educe imports, then estimated at an average of 60,000 tonnes of meat and 40,000 tonnes of milk annually. The African Development Fund, the African Development…

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    • Standing in front of his oven, baker Pierre Gbenou Tito Dossou makes full use of the electricity supply
    • Electricity pylons have been installed in urban areas of Benin to connect numerous households to the power grid
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From darkness to light: Local bakeries and homes flourish under Benin’s new urban electricity project

The project is funded by the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group, which provided a $9.08 million loan and a $7.28 million grant

The bustling sound of dough kneading fills the air at Pierre Gbenou Tito Dossou’s bakery in Okoun-Sèmè, Benin, as the once energy-starved business now hums along smoothly. Orders for bread, croissants, and chocolate pastries are met on time, a feat Dossou attributes to a newly stable power supply. “I struggled…

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    • In addition to improving the investment climate, the AfDB's budget support will enable Benin to invest in the agro-industrial sector, which is essential for its socio-economic development. (1)
    • In addition to improving the investment climate, the AfDB's budget support will enable Benin to invest in the agro-industrial sector, which is essential for its socio-economic development. (2)
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African Development Fund grants $60 million loan to Benin to strengthen its economic governance and private sector development

The funding brings the total amount granted to Benin to over $100 million through programmatic budget support covering 2023 and 2024 fiscal years

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, the African Development Bank Group’s (www.AfDB.org) concessional window, approved on Thursday a loan of $60 million to the Republic of Benin to finance the second phase of the country’s Economic Governance and Private Sector Development Support Programme. The funding brings the…

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    • Participants at the workshop discussing the provisional report on the development of the textile industry in Benin. Third from left, Mr Robert Masumbuko, the African Development Bank’s representative in Benin and Ms Mariam Chabi Talata Zimé Yérima (fourth from left), Vice-President of the Republic of Benin
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Benin: The African Development Bank Supports a Study Aimed at Strengthening the Textile Industry Through the Private Sector

The meeting helped to identify opportunities and make core proposals to strengthen efforts to dynamize the cotton industry

The Country Office of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) in Benin - one of Africa’s leading cotton producers - organised a workshop in Cotonou on 31 July 2024 to provide feedback about a study on private sector players bringing fresh momentum to the country’s textile industry. The meeting marked…