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Leveraging French expertise to support socially responsible investment
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AFD Group promotes and broadens the influence of French expertise by supporting 1,250 new projects a year in around 160 countries. These projects create a diverse range of business opportunities for national companies in both the public and private sector. France’s economic and industrial flagship corporations, like Eiffage, EDF, Saint-Gobain, SUEZ, POMA and VINCI, draw on their expertise to meet the needs of vulnerable communities across five continents, and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
France fosters international partnerships based on solidarity, while investing in solutions to the world’s major challenges and aligning diplomatic and economic interests. AFD Group invests in sectors such as transport, water, sanitation, energy, urban development and waste management, in line with its partners’ needs, regularly mobilizing a wide range of French expertise in sustainable development from both public and private entities.
Between 2020 and 2024, French companies won around one in two of these contracts, generating €8 billion in economic spin-offs during this period. These projects not only create economic opportunities and jobs for many French people, they also help the country to build on established expertise, export products and secure strategic supply chains. At the same time, French companies also provide partner countries with access to proven technical solutions, facilitating the development of essential infrastructure and supporting sustainable and inclusive development.
Below, we take a global tour of some typical projects supported by AFD Group, which leverage the expertise of French companies to support socially responsible and sustainable investment.