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Water for the future: Tangiers takes steps to secure its blue gold

Overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar at the northern tip of Morocco, Tangiers is a cosmopolitan place and gateway to the great continent of Africa

The white city of Tangiers wakes gently at daybreak. Schoolchildren mill up and down the main streets of the old town, the medina, crossing paths with the crowd heading to offices and a few morning tourists. Overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar at the northern tip of Morocco, Tangiers is a…

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    • African Development Bank sets out two priority areas for the CSP 2024-2029 for Zambia: boosting private sector development through infrastructure investments and developing the country’s agricultural value chain
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2024-2029 Development priorities for Zambia: Infrastructure and Agricultural Value Chain

The African Development Bank Group will provide assistance to the agricultural sector, concentrating primarily on the development of farm blocks and value chains, to improve the sector’s climate resilience and agricultural productivity

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved the Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Zambia for 2024-2029, which sets out two priority intervention areas: Boosting the development of the private sector through investments in infrastructure and developing the country’s agricultural value chain. “The aim of…

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    • Benson Bumbe Nkhoma (2nd right), Principal Water Resources Management and Development Officer, African Development Bank, making a presentation. On the extreme right is Peter de Koming, Resident Project Manager, Kenya, World Waternet. The others are: Fred Nyongesa, Manager, Water Quality, Water Resources Authority (extreme left); Enock Sentru Kiminta, Chief Executive Officer, Kenya National Water Resource Users Association (2nd from left); and Robert Kisyula, Chief of Party, USAID STAWI (3rd from left)
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African Development Bank champions private-public partnerships and good governance for universal water access in Kenya

Kenya requires about Ksh 995 billion (around $7.5 billion) to achieve universal access to water and sanitation by 2030

Kenya’s Water and Sanitation Investors Conference 2024, held in the capital, Nairobi, concluded with a call for accelerated investment towards universal access to water and sanitation by 2030. The March 6-8 conference underscored the need for collaboration to support governments in bridging the financing gap through private sector funding, blended…

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    • A Truck desludging at the faecal sludge treatment plant, San Pedro, Cote d’Ivoire
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commits $6 million to the African Water Facility for Africa Urban Sanitation Investment Initiative

The Africa Urban Sanitation Investment Initiative will come as a response to improve urban access to safely managed sanitation in Africa

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $6 million to the African Water Facility, to support the operationalization of the Africa Urban Sanitation Investment Initiative (AUSII) – a new financing window dedicated to improving sanitation in African urban cities. The African Water Facility, a special project preparation fund established…

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    • Tens of thousands of farmers and low-income households in southern Ethiopia will benefit from a program financed by an African Development Fund donation
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Ethiopia: African Development Fund grants $46 million to improve access to water and sanitation for pastoral communities in the Borana region

It will also be used to build 9 reservoirs, distribution systems (142.6 kilometres) and connections to give 36,000 new users access to drinking water

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund in Abidjan on 28 February 2024, donated $46.02 million to Ethiopia to implement Phase 2 of the Borana Resilient Water Development for Improved Livelihoods Program in the country’s south. Financial support from the African Development Bank Group’s concessional rate loans window…

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    • Representatives of the African Development Bank, OCP Group and Canada at the signing of the three financing agreements
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African Development Bank and OCP Group provide $188 million for green investment in Morocco

$150 million from the African Development Bank, $18 million from the Canada – African Development Bank Climate Fund and $20 million from the Clean Technology Fund

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and the OCP Group signed three loan agreements in Rabat totalling $188 million to help fund the OCP Group’s Green Investment Program supplying clean drinking water to the towns around three new desalinisation plants. The construction of the new modular seawater desalination plants will be funded…

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Benin announced as latest beneficiary of unlocked climate finance lending from Room 2 Run Sovereign Programme, a joint initiative of the African Development Bank and the United Kingdom (UK)

The Bank provided a loan of $129 million to the project to improve living conditions in secondary towns throughout Benin by implementing various climate adaptation activities

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and the UK have announced the Secondary Town Stormwater Drainage Project in Benin as the latest beneficiary project under the Room to Run Sovereign transaction (R2RS). Under the R2RS transaction, the UK Government provided a guarantee to the Bank, unlocking additional climate finance for projects…

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    • Conference of the Parties (COP28): United Kingdom commits £7.4 million additional funding to African Development Bank’s Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme
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Conference of the Parties (COP28): United Kingdom commits £7.4 million additional funding to African Development Bank’s Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme

Grant to support Somalia in adapting to weather extremes related to climate change

The United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has announced nearly $10 million in additional funding to the African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) programme assisting African countries to strengthen resilience and enhance their response to climate shocks. The financial commitment of £7.4 million ($9.63 million) for the Multi-Donor Trust Fund of…

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    • The African Development Bank is providing Tunisia with financial support to improve the treatment of wastewater for reuse in agriculture and to improve climate resilience
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Tunisia: African Development Bank lends nearly €82 million for wastewater reuse in agriculture, strengthening climate resilience

This new funding is the Bank's third operation in the urban sanitation subsector to the benefit of Tunisia’s National Sanitation Office (ONAS)

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a loan of €81.9 million to Tunisia to implement the Treated Wastewater Quality Improvement Project For Climate Resilience Building (PAQEE-RCC) at a meeting in Abidjan on 6 December. To be implemented over the period 2024-2028, the project will…

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    • Funding from the African Development Bank Group will make it possible to rehabilitate the Nzove 1 wastewater treatment plant and supply drinking water to an additional 227,000 people
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Rwanda: African Development Bank and the Africa Growing Together Fund (AGTF) mobilize USD 250 million to improve access to water and sanitation

The program’s four components provide for investments in water supply, as well as managing drainage basins, other investments in sanitation and program management, and support for the sector

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved loans of almost USD 250 million to Rwanda in Abidjan on 1 December 2023, to improve the population’s access to water and sanitation services. The Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Program for Transformation, currently in Phase I, will…