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Ghana: What Economic Challenges?
Ghana stands apart from other African economies thanks to its consolidated democratic achievements as well as the pace of its economic growth since the early 2000s. The start of oil production in the...
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Baking for a better future
The Boulangerie Française offers trainings in bakery jobs, which facilitates the integration of disadvantaged young people into the labour market and improves their living conditions. Meeting with May...
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Research, Innovation & Knowledge - 2019-2022 Strategy
Strengthening research efforts and promoting innovation are among the cross-cutting focus areas of the French development and international solidarity policy. Echoing this ambition, the AFD Group...
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The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa: Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptab...
Over the past two decades, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have grown their economies, lifted millions out of poverty, recovered from conflict, and greatly expanded access to education with a boo...
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Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Uptake, Reliability, and Complementary Factors for Economic Impact
Access to reliable electricity is the backbone of any modern economy. It is even more important with the digital revolution. If African nations want to see their economies transform, the issue of elec...
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Mobility and transport- Synthesis of the AFD Group sectoral intervention framework
The challenge in the sector: Contribute to the achievement of the SDGs while adhering to low-carbon and resilient development trajectories Mobility is determined by individual choices made by a mul...
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AFD and the energy transition in Vietnam
In line with Vietnam’s revised Power Development Plan, electricity production in 2030 will be four times the level of 2014. This revised plan emphasises the development of renewable energies (ENR), wh...
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AFD and Cambodia
The French Development Agency or Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has been present in Cambodia since 1993. The Agency supports Cambodia in territorial, ecological and social transitions while f...
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AFD and the Environment in Cambodia
Despite its low contribution to global warming, Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world, which directly threatens the country’s prodigious biodiversity. AFD is...
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AFD and the Energy in Cambodia
In terms of energy, Cambodia faces major challenges: more than 20 years after the end of the social unrest that ravaged the country, it has yet to rebuild, develop and diversify its energy production,...
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AFD and the Financial Sector in Cambodia
Cambodia’s financial sector has developed recently, particularly through microfinance institutions. Many banks have also opened in the country in recent years, which is a proof of its economic strengt...
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AFD and the Water in Cambodia
In Phnom Penh, the drinking water system is of good quality. But in the provinces, the sanitation services are still largely undeveloped. AFD has been engaged in this sector in Cambodia since 2004. Th...
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AFD and the Rural Development in Cambodia
80% of the Cambodian population live in rural areas and 45% of the working population are engaged in agriculture. The primary sector still accounts for 23% of Cambodia’s GDP, despite a steady decrease...
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AFD and the Professional Training in Cambodia
Cambodia’s growth is one of the most robust in the region. However, the dynamism of the economy faces a number of structural weaknesses, notably related to the lack of qualifications among the wo...
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Pakistan - 2018-2022 Strategy
In accordance with its intervention strategy for Asia,15 the Group sets itself three objectives in Pakistan consistent with 100% Paris Agreement commitment to low-carbon and resilient development and...
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Evaluation of the Second Objective of the Biodiversity Cross-cutting Intervention Framework (2013–2017)
The Agence française de développement (AFD) has entrusted the evaluation of the second objective of the Biodiversity Cross-cutting Intervention Framework to EY in partnership with Biotope. The Cross-c...
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Reporting Climate Bond AFD 2018
Climate is central to everything AFD Group does, and in 2018 the Group consolidated this position by adopting a new climate strategy (2017-2022), which reflects its aim to help implement the Paris Agr...
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AFD Group - 2018 Results
Discover the 2018 annual results of the AFD Group, and the key figures : €11.4 billion in commitments, up €1 billion in a year (+40% in 3 years) 846 new development projects launched (94 more...
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AFD and public sector reform
States are the primary actors of development, mainly because they are responsible for delivering basic services (such as healthcare and education), and ensuring a peaceful, inclusive socio-economic co...
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AFD and justice
Since it integrated the justice sector among its subject matters in 2016, AFD’s aims to promote access to justice and rights for all, while developing a secure legal environment for goods and people....
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Evaluations Report 2017-2018
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group funds, supports and accelerates the transition to a fairer and more sustainable world. Focusing on climate, biodiversity, peace, education, urban deve...
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