TANZANIAAlternative Learning and Skills Development

MALAWISupport to Higher Education Science and Technology

KENYA/ETHIOPIAMombasa-Nairobi-Addis Ababa road corridor project

SENEGALRural Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Sub-Program

MAURITANIAHydro-agricultural development project in West Brakna

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VOICES FROM THE FIELD

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In Zanzibar, the Alternative Learning and Skills Development project(ALSD) helps provide access to alternative learning, skills andemployment opportunities to out of school youth. It also providesstudents with microloans to start businesses.

We started thiscentre in 2006 with 32students to teach themhow to read and writeand have basicunderstanding ofmathematics. After ashort time, we startedother programs likehousekeeping andlaundry, computermaintenance,agriculture, carpentry,electrical installation,cookery and tailoring.

— Kazija SalminUfuzo, teacher at RahaLeo AlternativeLearning Centre,Zanzibar

We graduated fromthe vocational trainingcentre in Mkokotoni in2013. As soon as wegraduated, we formed a six-member group.With the loan that wegot, we bought thingslike sewing machines.This business has reallyhelped me.

— Subira Haji Khamisi(right), 28, tailor andgraduate from theVocational Training Centerin Mkokotoni

Alternative Learning and SkillsDevelopment

32.7 millionloan to Tanzaniato build alternative learning and vocational centers

+2,000students enrolled so far

+6,000students grantedmicroloans tostart businesses

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Support to Higher Education Science andTechnology

The Higher Education, Science and Technology (HEST) supportproject aims to improve the quality and relevance of skillsdevelopment in Malawi for job creation and graduate employment.

They were calling forstudents to sponsor,under the HESTprogram. Now I don’tpay school fees. Butwithout the HESTsponsorship, I don’tknow how I’d source thatmoney to cater for myeducation.

— TwambilireMwambembe, student,University of Malawi

14 million loan towards:— scholarship— internet accessibility— building new learning facilities

Before the scholarship, I had threeplaces for PhD and I couldn’t go because Ihad no funding. With the scholarship Ireceived, I undertook a PhD program inEducational Technology.

— Rabson Killion Mgawi, lecturer atMalawi Polytechnic, faculty of Media andEducational Studies

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Mombasa-Nairobi-Addis Ababa Road Corridor

The Mombasa-Nairobi-Addis Ababa Road Corridor project aims atpromoting trade and regional integration between Ethiopia and Kenyaby improving transport communications between the two countries.

During the rainy season, itwould take over a week forvegetables to be delivered,causing them to spoil. We lost alot of money. Thanks to the newroad, we get the vegetablesdelivered within one day.

— Teresia Kanina, Vegetablevendor, Marsabit, Kenya

Travel time reducedfrom 3 days to less than aday betweenNairobi and Moyale(Kenya).

— 504 km road linkingthe Merille and Turbithrough Marsabit (Kenya)

— 391 km stretchlinking Ageremariam,Yabelo and Mega(Ethiopia).

670 million,amounting to64% of total projectcosts.

Trade between Kenyaand Ethiopia to jumpfrom US$ 35 to 175 million byend 2019

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Before, there were 30 to40 vehicles plying thehighway per day. But nowthe number of vehicles hasdoubled!

— Tesfaya Antenyismu,Team Leader, SouthernRegion Road Authority,Ethiopia

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The Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Program (PEPAM) aims toimprove the health conditions of the rural population in Senegal byreducing waterborne diseases, particularly diarrhea, which is the maincause of under-five child mortality.

A member of a women’scooperative watering her farm in the village of Sakal in Louga Province.

PEPAM’s investment goesbeyond providing water butalso encourages women toset up their own businesses.

900 km ofwater pipes laid

+8000 faucets installed

10,650 family latrinesbuilt

41 built watertowers

35 boreholesbuilt

400 fountainssupplied

When I got to the well, I had towait for hours to collect only a littlewater. The water from the boreholeis much better, it’s clean and thereis no more diarrhea or illnessesrelated to water.

— Yacine Diop (in front of a queue)waiting to pay her water bill inNdiobene Mbatar, Louga Province.

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Women from N’diorol village cooperative working in a cottonfield. They benefit from PAHABO project.

With the arrival of the PAHABO project,we received training. Now we have no gaps,we know how to work and keep our crops.We grow better, with better yields and moreprofits.

— Oumou Salif Diop, head of a women’scooperative in N'diorol village

The goal of the hydro-agricultural development project in the WestBrakna Region of Mauritania (PAHABO), is to feed populations,improve food safety, and enable populations to live from their work bydeveloping infrastructures and improving farming methods forbeneficiaries.

Before the PAHABO project, we onlygrew a few vegetables. Today, with thedevelopments, we have also turned to ricefarming.

— Mamadou Abdul Seck farmer (right),Louboudou village

Access to drinkingwater for +10,000

people across 20 villages

PAHABO project:US$ 12 million

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The ADF has cumulatively invested US$ 45 billion in its operations on theAfrican continent. The Fund’s resources arereplenished every three years by its donorcountries.

In 2017, the African Development Funddelivered key results:

The African DevelopmentFund (ADF) is theconcessional window of theAfrican Development BankGroup, and has beenoperating since 1974. Itcomprises 32 contributingcountries and benefits 38African countries,considered as Africa’s mostvulnerable and leastdeveloped countries.

And these key results are only some of ourachievements. ADF is also vital to supportthemes that cut across sectors:

> Gender equality;> Climate change;> Regional integration;> Fragility;> Job creation;> Institutional capacity building.

With our presence in countries and institutionaleffectiveness, we use vital resources from ADF torespond to the needs of countries and improvethe future of millions of ordinary Africans.

2730 km of distribution lines built toprovide access to electricity tohouseholds and businesses;

access to improved agriculturetechnologies for 7.8 million Africans;

improved access to transport for 13 million Africans;

access to financial services for181,000 small businesses;

improved access to water andsanitation for 7.5 million Africans.

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