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How evaluations inform the debate on solidarity-based investments
Evaluations are not only essential for determining the effectiveness of AFD Group’s actions, but also for identifying lessons that can inform future projects. The Group’s 2025 evaluation report explor...
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How does AFD measure the impact of the projects it supports?
Public development banks have both a duty and obligation to invest in high-quality projects. For this reason, every year, AFD conducts and outsources assessments to evaluate the deliverables of a larg...
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How AFD Ensures that its Financing Reaches the Final Beneficiaries
The projects financed by Agence Française de Développement are subject to ongoing attention. This involves a dialogue with its partners on almost a daily basis, supervision missions in the field, and...
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Sports and Development: the Key to Success
Since 2012, AFD Group has financed nearly 200 sports projects, supporting more than 80 athletes and reaching around 10 million young people. Recent evaluations of such initiatives confirm that, under...
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How do we Measure Adaptation to Climate Change?
Since 2015, AFD Group has stepped up its commitment to initiatives that boost adaptation to climate change. A recent evaluation of 35 projects with an "adaptation" component in sub-Saharan Africa enab...
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Using Monitoring and Evaluation for more effective Public Policy
Monitoring and evaluation at AFD is changing radically to become a genuine decision-making tool. Using new and innovative approaches to data collection and analysis, AFD is among a small but growing g...
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Young People Entering Morocco’s Industrial Ecosystem via Public-Private Partnerships
Morocco has been developing a professional training system to better serve the needs of its industrial sector. A recent evaluation of such AFD-backed programs laud their success in the recruitment of...
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Congo: Facilitating Access to Water – and Measuring the Benefits
For the past several years, the PILAEP project has backed the instalment of standpipes to facilitate access to drinking water in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's greater Kinshasa area. A project...
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Public Development Bank Evaluation and the Sustainable Development Goals
Public Development Banks are privileged partners in matters of development aid. Assessing their work allows AFD to better understand how to make collaboration with these institutions more productive,...
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Evaluation at AFD: A Powerful Tool to Improve Our Actions
Following AFD's two conferences on evaluation on September 28 and October 1, we examine its value as a tool to measure and assess development interventions. In this interview, Nathalie Le Denmat, Head...
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2019-2020 evaluation report: gender focus
The third part of the 2019-2020 evaluation report, devoted to gender, explains how evaluation contributes to the reduction of gender inequalities. In 2014, AFD adopted its first strategy to reduce gen...
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Niger's Common Health Sector Fund, Evaluated by AFD
Set up in 2006, the health sector fund has mobilized €91 million for health policies in Niger. An evaluation of its impacts is available in the Africa edition of Agence Française de Développement’s re...
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Improving the Effectiveness of our Operations through Evaluations
To mark the publication of the Africa edition of AFD’s evaluation report, Karen Rot-Münstermann, from the Independent Development Evaluation Department at the African Development Bank (AfDB), and Thom...
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2019-2020 evaluation report: focus on Africa
This second part of the 2019-2020 evaluation report, devoted to Africa, explains how evaluation helps better identify, share and probe the results of AFD's work on the continent.
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Assessment: Two years of project evaluation at AFD
What impact do AFD's development projects and policies have? In a special report, AFD takes stock of the evaluations conducted on activities undertaken in 2019 and 2020. Results are compiled in an int...
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