A delegation from AFD visited the AADFI Secretariat

Abidjan, October 15, 2021 – Mr. Cyril A. Okoye, Secretary-General of the Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) received the officials from the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) on October 15, 2021, at AADFI’s headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The visit was to discuss the implementation of the project on the AADFI Learning Management System (LMS)  financed by the AFD.

The delegation was composed of Mrs. Cécile Bekkers, E-Learning Project Manager at the AFD Campus in Paris, France, and Mr. Saint-Jérôme Koffi, Regional Mission Officer, Financial Governance and Macro-Economic Monitoring at the AFD Gulf of Guinea in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

The meeting was also joined virtually by Mrs. Agnès Biscaglia, Pedagogical Projects Manager at the AFD’s Knowledge Development Department, and Mrs. Eva Bezit, chargée de missions formation climat at the AFD Campus. Mr. Lassina Ouattara, Head of Finance and Administration, and Mr. Akhenaton Ohoussou, Translation and Editing Officer, were among the AADFI officials at the meeting.

The parties agreed to kick start the project expected to be operational by the first quarter of 2022.

The LMS project would support the digitalization of the AADFI capacity-building programs and ensure that the DFIs across the continent benefit from AADFI programs and share knowledge and experience.

For more information about the AADFI and its activities, visit www.adfi-ci.org.

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2026 AADFI Annual General Assembly

The Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) is pleased to announce that its 2026 Annual General Assembly will take place from May 24 to 29, 2026, in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, on the sidelines of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meetings.

The Annual General Assembly will be held on the theme “Augmenting Sovereign Finance in Africa: DFIs Unlocking Growth and Resilience through NAFA,” with a focus on the transformative role of African Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in strengthening Africa’s financial sovereignty. The discussions will align with the AfDB-led New African Financial Architecture (NAFA), a system-level framework designed to mobilize long-term investment, reduce Africa’s cost of capital, and reinforce resilience through coordinated financial systems and deeper domestic capital markets.

The Annual General Assembly will convene leaders of African DFIs, government officials, regional institutions, and development partners to further explore how African DFIs can catalyze local investment, de-risk strategic projects, and strengthen economic autonomy to build resilience against global shocks and bridge the continent’s infrastructure funding gap.

Further details will be shared in the coming weeks.