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AFD Digital Challenge: the Start-ups Designing Sustainable Cities
AFD's “Shared Innovation” series highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. For its fourth edition, the AFD Digital Challenge is rewarding ten innovative African...
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Emergency Support to Pacific Island Countries to Contain Covid-19 and Emerging Diseases
AFD is providing emergency funding to help 12 Pacific island countries and territories monitor and respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. The support will also boost the region’s ability to cope with other...
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Five Years on from the Paris Accord, New Commitments to Come
To mark the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Accord on Climate Change, France, the UK and the United Nations are organizing the Climate Ambition Summit on December 12. Damien Navizet, AF...
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The Kiwa Initiative: A Coalition to Protect Biodiversity
A coalition spanning the globe, from Canada to New Zealand has joined forces to use nature-based solutions to help communities in the Global South better adapt to climate change. AFD, the European Uni...
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Terramaz: A program to fight deforestation and promote sustainable development in Ecuador
AFD is supporting a large-scale program to help several Amazonian territories in the fight against deforestation and the transition to sustainable development models.
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Biodiversity: Sharing Data for Greater Protection of the Natural World
Data4Nature is a new initiative inviting all development partners to share the biodiversity data from their projects, to provide better protection for the natural world. Having emerged from the Financ...
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Covid-19: €1 Billion More for Small African Businesses
To support African MSMEs – micro, small and medium sized enterprises – affected by the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, AFD Group is scaling up the presidential Choose Africa initiative by mobil...
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Reinforcing the Urban Fabric with Citizen Project Laboratories
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs devised and developed in our partner countries. In Ouagadougou, Abidjan, Dakar and several Tunisian cities, “Citizen Projec...
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The Energy Transition Ramps Up in Southeast Asia
A brand new coalition has been set up to boost the energy transition across Southeast Asia. In collaboration with public donors and private foundations, France, via Agence Française de Développement (...
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Reviving Iraq's Rural Economy
For centuries, it was Iraq’s breadbasket and a hive of economic activity – but terrorism and war all but stopped the region in its tracks. How to revive northern Iraq after the departure of Daesh, th...
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Finance in Common: New AFD Projects on the Ground
A key organizer of last week’s Finance in Common, the first summit of development banks, and its emblematic statements, AFD Group also committed to a series of new projects on the ground, alongside it...
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Aiming for the SDGs: 10 Recommendations for Development Banks Around the World
AFD’s 14th International Development Research Conference, and the Finance in Common Summit were the occasion for an international network of researchers to offer initial recommendations for boosting t...
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AFD, a Longstanding Partner of Public Development Banks
Public development banks (PDBs) are both peer institutions and development partners for AFD and the two share a long history. Here is a brief timeline of the milestones of their common destiny.
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AFD in Kenya: Stepping in to Shore up Water, Health and Infrastructure
With Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s visit to France in October, four agreements were signed, not only to provide a major response to the current health emergency, but also to shore up infrastructur...
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Development Banks in Transition: AFD’s 14th International Research Conference
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) will hold its 14th international development research conference from November 3 to 10, 2020, as part of the first summit of development banks, “Finance in Comm...
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A Sustainable Future for African Cities
As part of the Paris Peace Forum and the Finance in Common Summit being held in early November, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) will present the program of the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Sahara...
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Finance in Common Summit: "A Coalition of Public Development Banks to Refocus the Financial System"
Agence Française de Développement will host the first ever global summit of public development banks, from 9 to 12 November. Audrey Rojkoff, Secretary-General of the summit and AFD’s Deputy Director o...
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AFD in Madagascar: Reversing unsustainable urban development
In Madagascar, unchecked urban growth has generated a host of social problems, from sub-standard housing to inadequate sanitation systems. But three programs funded by AFD are providing real results,...
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AFD Unveils New SDG Bond Framework
This new SDG Bond Framework represents for AFD a decisive step in order to take into account the targets of the UN 2030 Agenda within the projects it finances and through the dialogue with its counter...
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