The African Development Bank Group [to 11 July 2015]
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AfDB Board approves African Natural Resources Center Strategy for 2015-2020
10/07/2015 – On July 10, 2015, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank approved the six-year Strategy of the African Natural Resources Center (ANRC). The Strategy is intended to operationalize the Center by spelling out the Center’s strategic approach to assisting governments in their management of the opportunities and challenges of natural resources management (NRM).
AfDB along with other MDBs and IDFC have developed common principles for adaptation finance tracking
10/07/2015 – The world’s leading development finance institutions have taken an important step forward in tracking more consistently the flows of finance that help countries and people deal with the effects of climate change.
International Financial Institutions announce $400 billion to achieve Sustainable Development Goals
10/07/2015 – The multilateral development banks (MDBs) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday, July 10 signaled plans to extend more than $400 billion in financing over the next three years and vowed to work more closely with private and public sector partners to help mobilize the resources needed to meet the historic challenge of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).