The Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF) which intends to improve food security and the livelihoods of the population, alleviate poverty and address climate change challenges by reducing the rate of deforestation in the Congo Basin. The Fund supported mainly by the UK and Norway (initial contribution of £100 million) will be used over a ten-year agreement period up to 2018, to finance Central African Forests Commission (COMIFAC)'s Action-Plan inflatable in different strategic areas aimed at conserving the Congo Basin rainforest.

The Climate for Development in Africa Program (ClimDev-Africa) that aims at enhancing economic growth and sustainable development (SD) by mitigating vagaries of climate variability through the integration of Climate Risk and Adaptation Management (CRAM) into pertinent sectoral policy and decision processes throughout the continent. ClimDev-Africa will be implemented under the direction of the Joint AUC-ECA- AfDB Secretariat.

Scaling up private sector operations for food security. The AfDB Private Sector Department (OPSM) interventions under AFCR focus on: (i) providing lines of credit to local banks for on-lending to agricultural producers, at the SME level; (ii) direct lending programme focusing on key sponsors or strategic partners actively involved with smallholder farmers; (iii) promoting private equity funds targeting the agribusiness sector; (iv) supporting inflatable bouncer the development of fertilizer projects; and (v) promoting Public-Private Partnership (PPP) approach to agricultural development. To date, OPSM has approved operations in 2008 and 2009 amounting to about USD 147 million for the private sector.

The African Agriculture Investment Fund (AAIF) and the African Outgrower Development Fund (AODF) - Private investments in agriculture are important to boost agricultural production and productivity. In partnership with AFD, IFAD, AGRA, the AfDB signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in April 2009 for the establishment of African agriculture investment fund for an initial capital of € 200 million which is expected to be raised to € 500 million. Similarly, the Bank is also working with the German Cooperation (BMZ/KWF) on its initiative aiming inflatable slides at establishing the African outgrower development fund to boost private investments in all sectors of the continent's food industry. The Fund will have an initial capital of € 100 million.

As Africa's leading development finance institution, the African Development Bank is in a unique position to play the role of policy advocacy on the continent, given its location on the African landscape, its mandate and its expertise.

Tunis — The Ketta-Djoum Road and the Brazzaville-Yaoundé Transport Corridor Facilitation Project will assist in strengthening regional integration in Central Africa. It will enable interconnecting highways linking Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Central African Republic. In addition to improving the movement of people and goods between Congo and Cameroon, it will open up areas with significant economic potential in pearl jewelry Northern Congo (agriculture, ore, timber, etc.) and in the South-eastern part of Cameroon..

The 504.5-km Ketta-Djoum Road is a major link on the 1 612-km highway connecting the two capital cities of Brazzaville (Republic of Congo) and Yaoundé, (Cameroon). At completion, the project, to be implemented in two phases, will provide a completely paved corridor between Brazzaville and Yaoundé.

"No permanent road connection actually exists between the capitals of the two countries (Yaoundé and Brazzaville)," says Ali Kies, Manager, Transport Division, at the African Development Bank. "The road sections between Ketta and Djoum along pearl necklace this axis are in an advanced state of disrepair, thus cutting off regions that it crosses. As a result, huge agricultural, mining and tourist potential remain untapped, constituting a setback to the development of trade between the two nations and in the Central Africa sub-region."

The first phase of the project, funded by the African Development Fund, includes, (in Congo), paving of the Ketta-Biessi section (121 km) and minimal works on the Biessi-Cameroon border earth road section (195 km). In Cameroon, it involves minimal pearl earrings works on the Congo border-Mintom earth road section (105.5 km) and paving of the Mintom-Djoum section (83 km). Phase II of the project will comprise paving the remaining Biessi-Cameroon border earth road section (195 km) in Congo and paving the remaining Congo border-Mintom earth road section.

Leading the implementation of NEPAD's infrastructure and regional integration programmes, the AfDB Group dedicates up to 60% of its operations to infrastructure.