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African Development Bank

The African Development Bank Group is a regional multilateral development finance institution the members of which are all the 54 countries in Africa and 24 countries from Asia, Europe, North and South America. The purpose of the Bank is to further economic development and social progress of African countries, individually and collectively. To this end, the Bank promotes the investment of public and private capital, principally by providing loans and grants for projects and programmes that contribute to poverty reduction and broad-based sustainable development in Africa.

In 2013, the African Development Bank Group approved close to 317 operations worth UA 4.39 billion, which translated into approximately USD 6.7 billion. A total of UA 2.05 billion (58%) of approved financing was for infrastructure development, mainly energy and water and sanitation, reflecting the Bank’s strategic focus and selectivity for results impact. The social sector, encompassing education and health also significantly benefited from the Bank’s interventions, with 9% of total approvals going to support activities in these sectors. More than half (52%) of the Bank’s approvals were financed through concessional loans and about 42% from the non-concessional window. The remaining projects approvals benefited from the Nigerian Trust Fund.

For more information on the African Development Bank, please see www.afdb.org.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The OECD is a unique forum where governments work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisation provides a setting where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies.

The OECD member countries are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. The European Union takes part in the work of the OECD.

OECD Publishing disseminates widely the results of the Organisation’s statistics gathering and research on economic, social and environmental issues, as well as the conventions, guidelines and standards agreed by its members.

The OECD Development Centre was established in 1962 as an independent platform for knowledge-sharing and policy dialogue between OECD member countries and developing economies, allowing these countries to interact on an equal footing. Today, 24 OECD countries and 18 non-OECD countries are members of the Centre. The Centre draws attention to emerging systemic issues likely to have an impact on global development and more specific development challenges faced by today’s developing and emerging economies. It uses evidence-based analysis and strategic partnerships to help countries formulate innovative policy solutions to the global challenges of development.

For more information on the Centre and its members, please see www.oecd.org/dev.

United Nations Development Programme - Africa

UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. On the ground in more than 170 countries and territories, we offer global perspective and local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations. World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP’s network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:

• Poverty Reduction and Achievement of the MDGs
• Democratic Governance
• Crisis Prevention and Recovery
• Environment and Energy for Sustainable Development

UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights, capacity development and the empowerment of women. The annual Human Development Report, commissioned by UNDP, focuses the global debate on key development issues, providing new measurement tools, innovative analysis and often controversial policy proposals. The global Report’s analytical framework and inclusive approach carry over into regional, national and local Human Development Reports, also supported by UNDP. In each country office, the UNDP Resident Representative normally also serves as the Resident Coordinator of development activities for the United Nations system as a whole. Through such coordination, UNDP seeks to ensure the most effective use of UN and international aid resources.

For more information on the United Nations Development Programme, please see www.undp.org/fr.