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Acknowledgments
The report was prepared by the Strategy Department of the African Development Bank, led by Kapil Kapoor,
Director of Strategy. The core team preparing the strategy consisted of Cécile Ambert, Chiara Calvosa,
Komal Hassamal, John kaNyarubona, Séliatou Kayode-Anglade, Jing Li, Mateus Magala, Carlos Mollinedo,
Alex Mubiru, John Phillips, Kate Tench, and Yemesrach Workie. The Chief Economist and VP, Mthuli Ncube,
provided valuable guidance to the team.
Important contributions were made by the Departments throughout the Bank. In particular, valuable
comments were provided by Aly Abou-Sabaa, Gerald Ajumbo, Ibrahim Amadou, Yannis Arvantis, Cecilia
Akintomide, Souley Amadou, Neside Anvaripour, Tas Anvaripour, Aissatou Ba, Lamin Barrow, Barbara
Barungi, Felix Baudin, Catherine Baumont-Keita, Abdirahman Beileh, Maina Benson, Raymond Besong,
Charles Boamah, Jean-Luc Bernasconi, Jean-Baptiste Bilé, Zuzana Brixiova, Mahamudu Bawumia, Hela
Cheikhrouhou, Athanasius Coker, Khadija Dhaouadi, Koedeidja Diallo, Masamba Diene, Sarah Cooper,
Olivier Eweck, Trevor De Kock, Ebrima Faal, Yacine Fal, Gabriele Fattorrelli, Ilmi Granoff, Issa Faye, Kalidou
Gadio, Mohamed Hassan, Alfred Helm, Peter Ide, Sering Jallow, Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Mohamed Kalif,
Tonia Kandiero, Bitsat Kassahun, Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Christian Kingombe, Jacob Kolster, Wolassa
Kumo, Laurence Lannes, Ronald Leung, Christian Lim, Charles Lufumpa, Densil Magume, Christophe
Malherbe, Mohamed Manai, Caroline Manlan, Dennis Massart, Kennedy Mbekiani, Gilbert Mbesherubusa,
Delenia McIver, Sam Mivedor, Gertrude Mlachila, Leila Mokadem, José Morte-Molina, Gabriel Mougani,
Thibout Mourgues, Hela Mraidi, Moono Mupotola, Victor Murinde, Angela Nalikka, Rakesh Nangia, Gabriel
Negatu, Bleming Nekati, Mouhamadou Niang, Josephine Ngure, Emily Nwankwo, Chiji Ojukwu, Ralph
Olaye, Sunita Pitamber, Richard Schiere, Ravi Soopramanien, Tilahun Temesgen, Alex Rugamba, Zondo
Sakala, Vinay Sharma, Preeti Sinha, Agnes Soucat, Amadou Souley, Frank Sperling, Frederick Teufel,
Aminata Traoré, Thouraya Triki, Tim Turner, Pierre Van Peteghem, Désiré Vencatachellum, James Wahome
and Ralph Westling. The Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) of the AfDB Group Board also
made contributions to earlier drafts of the document.
The report also benefitted from consultations with government officials from the Bank Group’s Regional
Member Countries, development partners, the private sector, think tanks, regional economic communities,
academia, youth, civil society and non-governmental organizations. External consultations included faceto-face
meetings with key stakeholders from across the continent in Tanzania and South Africa (for the
Southern African region, June 2012), Morocco (for the North, West and Central African regions, June 2012);
and Ethiopia (for the Eastern Africa region, July 2012).In addition, the draft Strategy documents were posted
on the Bank Group’s website for additional comment.