Africa Knowledge Exchange shares perspectives on protecting forests, fostering climate resilience and empowering communities

In March 2023, the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, and the African Development Bank Group held a four-day event to share knowledge from 15 years of the Fund’s interventions in Africa. The event focused on experiences from the Forest Investment Program and the Pilot Program for...

Côte d'Ivoire: Singrobo-Ahouaty, West Africa’s first private sector-financed hydropower plant to supply electricity to 100,000 households and...

Three years after construction began, the Singrobo-Ahouaty hydropower plant project, located some 150 km north of Abidjan, achieved a completion rate of 78.93% as of end-March 2023. This project, which is symbolic of private sector mobilization for climate and green growth, is the first private sector-funded...

African Development Bank, ILX sign partnership to mobilize European institutional capital for sustainable projects across Africa

The African Development Bank and ILX Management B.V. (ILX) today signed a partnership agreement to scale up investments and spur institutional investor capital mobilization for Sustainable Development Goals and climate-focussed private sector projects in the Bank Group’s regional member countries.