Browsing: AfDB in Tanzania

Among other things, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan has supported the Enhancement of the Private Sector Assistance (EPSA) for Africa initiative, which has been successfully implemented over three phases since 2007.

According to the AfDB media report, Japan has contributed approximately $5.2 billion to investments in sovereign and non-sovereign operations through this initiative.

The report also points out that Japan subsequently invested another $86.9 million in technical assistance and capacity building. Further still, at the just ended TICAD 8, Japan reiterated its funding commitment for the fifth phase of EPSA.…

• Tanzania will receive $73.5 million to finance a programme that will boost its food production by a million tonnes
• The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) said its board had approved the funding, which will go into the Tanzania Agricultural Inputs Support Project
• The project, which will span from September 2022-June 2025, was designed under AfDB’s African Emergency Food Production Facility to tackle a potential food crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine

In the next three years, Tanzania will receive $73.5 million to finance a programme that will boost its food production by a million tonnes.

In a statement, the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) said its board had approved the funding, which will go into the Tanzania Agricultural Inputs Support Project.

The project, which will span from September 2022-June 2025, was designed under the Bank Group’s African Emergency Food Production Facility to tackle a potential food crisis exacerbated by …