African Development Bank (AfDB)

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Subject: The African Development Bank Group. The Nigeria Trust Fund. Syllabus:

1. Introduction to the African Development Bank (AfDB)
2. The African Development Report
3. The structure of the African Development Bank
4. The African Development Fund
5. The Nigeria Trust Fund
6. The African Development Bank's Strategy for 2013-2022
   1. Infrastructure development (PIDA)
   2. Regional economic integration
   3. Intra-African trade
   4. Private sector development
   5. Governance and accountability
   6. Skills and technology
7. Funds of the African Development Bank:
   1. The Africa Trade Fund
   2. The Africa 50 Infrastructure Fund
   3. The African Financial Markets Initiative (AFMI)
   4. The African Financing Partnership
   5. The African Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
8. Financial instruments of the African Development Bank
9. The African peer review mechanism (NEPAD)
10. The African Women in Business Initiative
11. Agriculture and agro-industries
12. The Agriculture Fast Track (AFT) Fund
13. Case Study: Impact of the global crisis on Africa

Projects and Operations of the African Development Bank

1. Introduction to the projects and operations of the African Development Bank
2. Doing Business with the African Development Bank.
   - Project Cycle
   - Project identification
   - Project preparation
   - Project appraisal
   - Loan negotiation
   - Board approval
   - Loan signing
   - Loan effectiveness
   - Implementation
   - Post evaluation
   - Procurement

The purposes of the subject “The African Development Bank” are the following:

1. To understand the objectives, structure, and functions of the African Development Bank
2. To identify the areas of cooperation of the African Development Bank
3. To analyse the strategy of the African Development Bank for the period 2013-2022
4. To evaluate the funds (the African Development Fund, the Nigeria Trust Fund, the goodwill of Africa) and the financial instruments of the African Development Bank
5. To understand the projects and operations of the African Development Bank

Sample of the subject - The African Development Bank Group:

Related topics:

1. Economic Transformation of Africa
2. African Continental Free-Trade Area

Description of the Subject: the African Development Bank.

The African Development Bank is a multilateral development bank whose shareholders include fifty-three African countries (regional member countries) and twenty-four non-African Countries (America, Asia, and Europe).

The African Development Fund is managed by the African Development Bank and includes the Member States (donor countries) and recipient economies.

The main objective of the African Development Fund is to reduce the poverty in Africa by providing loans and grants.

The Nigeria Trust Fund is a special African Development Bank fund created in 1976 by agreement between the Bank Group and the Government of Nigeria.

The objective of the Nigeria Trust Fund is to assist the development efforts of low-income regional African Countries whose economic and social circumstances and forecasts require concessional financing.

In 2014, the African Development Bank returned to Abidjan.

The African Development Bank belongs to the African Civilisation.

The African Regional Economic Communities (REC).

1. Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)
2. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
3. East African Community (EAC)
4. Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
5. Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC)
6. Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
7. West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)
8. West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ)
9. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
10. Southern African Development Community (SADC)
11. Southern African Customs Union (SACU)
12. Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)

Regional Integration in Africa.

Most of the Member Countries of the African Development Bank are small, undiversified and face physical, political, and policy-induced constraints to deeper economic integration with their neighbour's countries and the global economy.

However, the economic cooperation and regional integration are fundamental if Africa surpasses the barriers to trade and take its rightful place in the global market.

In the last forty years, the African Development Bank has promoted the Regional Economic Communities (REC) through regional economic cooperation, the international trade growth, capacity building and renewed assistance for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) programs.

The African Development Bank also collaborates with national governments and pan-African organisations; it is of particular importance with the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to rationalise and streamline the Regional Economic Communities structures.

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