A high level seminar on aid allocation systems in Africa organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and hosted by the Mauritian government ended on 17 February with a consensus on the principles for guiding the adaptation of AfDB’s aid allocation system to the changing financial and economic landscape of the continent.
Participants included a panel of international aid experts, practitioners and scholars led by former Burkina Faso prime minister, Tertius Zongo. The meeting was organised as a knowledge institution production by AfDB’s resource mobilization and allocation unit and its development research department.