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€100 Million to Improve Education in Guinea and Niger
The Global Partnership for Education, which aims to improve the quality of learning and reduce inequalities in access to education, has delegated to AFD its mission to increase the effectiveness of th...
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How to Accelerate the Ecological Transition
To get feedback on AFD's “Territorial and Ecological Transition” strategy, we've launched an platform for online consultation. The Strategy covers a wide variety of topics, from our ecological footpri...
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Benin Sows the Seeds of Agroecology
AFD has supported the Agro-ecological Transition in Cotton Areas Project (Tazco) run by the Government of Benin since 2017, with the aim of preserving natural ecosystems and enabling cotton producers...
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“In Lebanon, Our Top Priority is to help the Most Vulnerable” - Olivier Ray, AFD’s Regional Director in Leban...
The massive explosions at Beirut’s port on August 4, which killed more than 200 people and injured thousands, are the latest in a series of tragic events to strike a country mired in crisis. AFD has r...
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A Loan Symbolizing France's Commitment to Mauritius
AFD granted a €300 million contingency loan to the Mauritian government on July 27 as part of the response to the Covid-19 crisis. We look back at the issues at stake in this public policy loan and Fr...
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Nature-Based Solutions: A Global Standard
Nature-based Solutions may have been proven effective in the fight against climate change, but they remain underused. One reason is there is no normative framework to harmonize practices and provide i...
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Rwanda: AFD teams up with Red Cross to tackle Covid-19
To help the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with its response to the Covid-19 pandemic, AFD has just allocated it a €2 million grant. These funds will allow it to develop prevention a...
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Launching a Call for “Sports and Health” Projects Supported by AFD and Fifa
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the pan-African financing platform Sport en Commun (“Sports in Common”, or sharing the sporting experience), to be officially launched on September 21, is issuing...
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Creating a “Lynk” between Workers & Clients: One of the Biggest Digital Platforms in Africa
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs devised and developed in our partner countries. Across Sub-Saharan Africa, most work is in the informal sector, where wages...
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AFD’s Atlas of Africa: Viewing the Continent from a New Angle
More than 100 new maps and graphs bring to life an unprecedented amount of data in the form of a 128-page “Atlas of Africa.” It breaks down crucial development issues facing the continent today, inclu...
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AFD in Action to Protect the Amazon
Amazon deforestation continues at record levels. Massive fires have ravaged the world’s largest rainforest. This constitutes a catastrophe in what is home to more than 50% of the world's biodiversity...
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Cuba: Concrete Action Against Covid-19
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is mobilizing €5.3 million to help the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. In practical terms, that has helped provide 76 ven...
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Reconciling Energy Transition and Economic Development in Cambodia: The 2050 Facility Mobilized
To meet the demands of a growing population while ensuring its development is sustainable: these are Cambodia’s twin goals under the Paris Agreement. The Ministry of Economy and Finance signed a Memo...
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Live from the Trading Floor: How is AFD Financed?
As both a development bank and a public institution, AFD allocates grants and loans. The trading floor plays a key and increasingly important role in financing these operations, via international mark...
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Evaluation of the Pilot Project of Irrigation from Nam Kata (PPINK), Laos
The project objective (CLA1081) was to fight poverty and increase agricultural production in the target villages of Bualapha district, Khammouane province, through: The Nam Kata Irrigation Syste...
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Climate - Activity report 2023
As the first development bank to have committed to aligning its financing with the Paris Agreement, AFD Group is rolling out its “Climate and Development” strategy. In 2023, AFD committed €7.5 billion...
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Governance - Activity Report 2023
AFD finances governance projects in some 50 countries, mobilizing grants and loans with commitments totaling more than 6 billion euros. This activity helps to fulfil Sustainable Development Goals (...
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Infographic - Our Governance Activity in 2023
In 2023, AFD committed 1.8 billion euros in the area of governance, or 10% of AFD Group’s commitments. Our activity aims to build fair and inclusive societies that respect the freedoms and rights o...
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How Public Development Banks mobilize their resources to finance transitions?
This paper studies how Public Development Banks (PDBs) are able to finance the transition by focusing on their funding resources. The first part of the paper focuses on an explanatory analysis of fund...
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Infographic - Our climate commitments en 2023
In 2023, AFD Group committed €7.5 billion of climate finance in developing countries and overseas territories, including €3 BN dedicated to adaptation. Key figures, flagship programs, impacts: disc...
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