Deuxième plus grande ville du Togo, située à 350 kilomètres au nord de Lomé, Sokodé fut l’épicentre, en 2013, de trois flambées de choléra. La même année, la Banque africaine de développement accordait un don de 1,15 million d’euros à la municipalité à travers la Facilité africaine de l’eau, afin de financer le projet « Des toilettes pour tous à Sokodé ».

ACP-EU DRR Programme Report 2014 - 2017

The African Development Bank has approved the Africa Disaster Risks Financing (ADRiFi) Programme, the institution’s first climate risk management programme to boost resilience and response to climate shocks in regional member countries.

Juba, South Sudan, 24 October 2018 – The Government of the Republic of South Sudan today welcomed a contribution of US$ 43.57 million from the African Development Bank for the implementation of the country’s Short-Term Regional Emergency Response Project (STRERP).

The African Development Bank recently convened a meeting of experts and stakeholders in the agricultural sector to design integrated pest and disease management mechanisms for controlling the spread of the Fall Army Worm in East Africa.

The Fall Army Worm or Spodoptera frugiperda is an invasive insect threatening food supplies and incomes of millions of African smallholder farmers. The multi-stakeholder, regional action plans to stop the menace of the worm in Africa falls under the Bank’s Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (TAAT) agenda.