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Finance as a Fulcrum for change
Development depends on various kinds of finance, from grants to investment. AFD Group has begun to develop a number of incentive loans, where pricing is indexed to the progress made by borrowers in te...
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Seizing the Opportunity to Create Environmental Benefits
Since 2017, AFD has been pursuing four climate commitments to be achieved by 2022. At the halfway point, an initial review of the group's climate strategy reveals the degree of progress made as Damien...
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AFD Returns to Rwanda to Join in the Fight Against Covid-19
In the throes of Covid-19 crisis one month ago, France and Rwanda signed two funding agreements. The first will help the East African country in its fight against the pandemic. The second will support...
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Digital Africa Fund: Customized support for African start-ups
The Digital Africa seed fund for innovative entrepreneurship in Africa is off to a promising start, just six months on from its launch. Already, one third of the €15 million for technical and financi...
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Supporting African Small and Medium Business during the Covid Crisis: A Development Priority
As the pandemic takes hold and the economic ramifications intensify, a number of financial players, including partners of AFD and Proparco, are taking action to support African SMEs - small and medium...
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The Dominican Republic: From Deforestation to Reforestation
Since 2001, the watershed region of the Yaque del Norte, the main river in the Dominican Republic, has with AFD’s support, been experimenting with an unprecedented territorial management program recon...
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Agreement on the Development of the Electricity Sector in Egypt
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Government of Egypt have signed on 10Th June 2020, a new Development Program Financing (DPF) agreement for the development of Egypt’s Electricity sector...
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Adapt'action in Response to Climate Change: a €411 Million Boost
AFD’s Adapt'Action Facility supports 15 countries and regional organizations – from the Caribbean, to Cameroon and the Comoros – in building community resilience to the consequences of climate change....
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Civil Society, a Key Player in Managing the Health Crisis in Tunisia
Backed by AFD, Tunisian civil society has mobilized extensively to support the country's most fragile and marginalized communities. Below, an overview of the most successful initiatives, including the...
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Preserving Oceans: Four AFD Initiatives
Assisting island populations, fighting plastic pollution, encouraging sustainable fishing, supporting marine protected areas...In the wake of World Oceans Day, this article takes a look at four projec...
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The Ocean: “It’s Time to Consider its True Worth” - Hélène Gobert
The state of the oceans reflects the health of our planet. Millions of people’s lives and livelihoods depend on clean, healthy oceans, as does precious marine life. To meet the rising environmental,...
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Neglected Diseases and Covid-19: Innovative Research and Development Strategies
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. The race for a coronavirus vaccine casts into sharp relief existing inequalities...
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Coronavirus in Africa: Private Health Providers and Innovators on the Front Line
While the coronavirus is destabilizing an already fragile African health system, several private health services and innovators supported by Proparco – the private sector arm of Agence Française Dével...
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Broadening Access to Water in Rural Cambodia
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union continue to support private water and electricity operators in Cambodia with the aim of broadening access for people to meet their basic...
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AFD's Response to the Covid-19 Crisis
A worldwide health and economic emergency has emerged from the coronavirus pandemic. Since March, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has been working to provide a multi-pronged response. It is tr...
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Guinea Start-up Designs a Tablet to Diagnose Covid Symptoms
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. Today, we focus on a Guinean start-up that has designed in record time, a table...
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Vietnam: Improving the management and Resilience of Natural Resources
The European Union and AFD have signed an agreement to increase the resilience of natural resources to climate change and reduce the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in Vietnam through a new faci...
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Covid-19 in Rwanda: Delivering Drugs by Drone
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. Imaginative modes of transport are being harnessed to transport vital medicin...
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The Social & Inclusive Business Camp Supports Entrepreneurs across Africa to address the Covid-19 Crisis
After being imagined and incubated by the AFD Campus du Développement, the SIBC will be piloted over the next three years by I&P Conseil and its partners - African Management Institute, ScaleChanger a...
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