📋 Tender Overview
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is known for actively driving reforms, promoting poverty reduction and regional integration. Its role is particularly crucial in the adaptation of African countries to climate change and in addressing factors of fragility. With its African character, dynamism and pragmatic approach, the AfDB Group is well positioned to meet the challenges of 37 least developed African countries, aligned with the Evolving MDBs reform agenda
Area of responsibility The African Development Fund (AfDF) is the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB). Since its establishment in 1972, the AfDF provides advice and long-term financing to 37 low income countries in the form of concessional loans, grants and technical assistance. Special support is provided to fragile and conflict affected states, to boost private sector development and to address climate change. The AfDF has gained a strong comparative advantage in infrastructure financing (energy, transport, water and sanitation), private sector operations, regional integration and addressing fragility. During the pandemic, the AfDF responded swiftly by launching the Covid-19 Response Facility and to the food crisis as a result of the Russian military aggression against Ukraine by establishing the African Emergency Food Production Facility. It addresses the development challenges of the fragile and conflict-affected countries through the Transition Support Facility (TSF). Through the Private Sector Credit Enhancement Facility, the AfDF scales up private sector operations in AfDF eligible countries. As part of the AfDF-16 replenishment, a Climate Action Window (CAW) was established, a dedicated window within the AfDF to scale up the AfDF’s response to climate change.
Switzerland's and the organisation's strategic priorities and their coherence The AfDB (including AfDF) is one of 23 priority multilateral organizations according to Switzerland’s Strategy for International Cooperation 2021-2024. Switzerland’s membership of the AfDB corresponds to its international cooperation, foreign and economic foreign policy interests. The overarching objectives of the AfDB Group’s Ten-Year Strategy (2023-2032) are consistent with Switzerland’s international cooperation strategy. The AfDB’s seeks to contribute to inclusive growth and the transition to green growth through five operational priorities (the socalled High 5s ): Light up and power Africa, Integrate Africa, Feed Africa, Industrialize Africa, and Improve the Quality of Life of Africans. The strategic directions and operational priorities of AfDF-16 are well aligned with Switzerland’s international cooperation strategy. The AfDB Group plays an important role in a priority region for Switzerland’s international cooperation that offers economic opportunities, but is also affected by fragility and migratory flows. A sustainable development in Africa is, ultimately, in Switzerland's own best interest. The membership
