Project profile — Support to the African Development Fund - Replenishment ADF-14

• Africa, regional (100.00%)

• Post-Secondary Education: Higher education (11420) (7.00%)
• Water supply - large systems:
Water supply - large systems (14021) (10.00%)
Sanitation - large systems (14022) (10.00%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Public sector policy and administrative management (15110) (20.00%)
• Transport And Storage: Road transport (21020) (20.00%)
• Heating, Cooling And Energy Distribution: Electric power transmission and  distribution (23630) (20.00%)
• Agriculture: Agricultural development (31120) (13.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (significant objective)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (significant objective)

The African Development Fund (ADF) is the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB), the main development financial institution in Africa. The Bank's goal is to support economic and social development of African countries. This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the 14th replenishment of the African Development Fund, which is managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The AfDB’s African Development Fund uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate. Canada's contribution seeks to strengthen Canada's commitment to help the poorest in contributing to the reduction of poverty in 40 African least developed countries (17 of which are fragile states). Through this Fund, the AfDB provides concessionary financing, such as grants and low-interest loans, to the poorest and most vulnerable African countries. The Fund’s strategic priorities for the 14th replenishment are: 1) to ensure universal access to electricity; 2) to transform agriculture; 3) diversify Africa's economic; 4) to develop regional markets; and 5) to improve access to opportunities social and economic, in particular by promoting the empowerment of women and access to jobs for young people.

ADF-14 will affect its resources; 1) to ensure universal access to electricity; 2) to transform agriculture; 3) diversify Africa's economic; 4) to develop regional markets; and 5) to improve access to opportunities social and economic, in particular by promoting the empowerment of women and access to jobs for young people.

Results achieved as of December 2014 include: (1) helping to create over 3,000 jobs in the private sector; (2) building, rehabilitating or maintaining 1,446 km of roads to connect people and countries, giving more than 3.4 million people better access to transport; (3) expanding energy generation capacity by 357 megawatts and providing 1.2 million people with new or improved electricity connections; (4) investing in 465 health facilities and training 6,800 health workers, resulting in over 21 million people having better access to quality health services; (5) improving water management on 10,000 hectares of land and land use management on 129,000 hectares; and (6) providing over 279,000 people with improved access to water and sanitation. These results reflect the entire operations of the African Development Bank Group for 2014, and have contributed to improved access to infrastructure, regional economic integration and private sector development in Africa.

• Proactive disclosure
• Related activities: Support to the African Development Fund - 13th Replenishment - II