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Orients - 2021-2025 Regional Strategy
The “Orients” region stretches from the Balkans to Indonesia and harbours important challenges for international peace, and for the collective global transition towards low-carbon, economic and social...
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Adapt'Action: Tackling Climate Change Together
More than 3 billion people live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change (IPCC, 2022). Yet, adapting to the impacts of climate change remains a complex process: multiple sectors as wel...
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AFD-KfW Partnership: The Franco-German Tandem Promoting Socially Responsible Investment
By signing an ambitious partnership agreement in Frankfurt on 4 April, AFD and the German organisation KfW have officialised their joint aim of strengthening the longstanding collaboration between the...
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Morocco: photography to raise awareness of the role of women in artisanal fishing
In Morocco, the "Metis" project, through photography aims to raise awareness of the role of women in artisanal fishing through: the impact of entrepreneurship and women's financial autonomy on develop...
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Human Rights and Development: The Rights of Youth
AFD is developing a series of factsheets entitled "Human Rights and Development". In addition to providing information and promoting human rights, the sheets are tools to help development actors integ...
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Sahel - 2021 Activity Report
Development in the Greater Sahel region (Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad) is marked by contrasts. The wide range of issues require a collective...
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Education, Training, Employment - 2021 Activity Report
Lifelong learning, the acquisition of skills, and access to jobs are the cornerstones of fairer and more sustainable economic and social development (Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 8). In 2021...
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Vietnam -2021-2025 Strategy
Even though Vietnam was one of the world’s poorest countries in the mid-1980s, it achieved LMIC status in 2010. Vietnam has initiated its transition to a low-carbon trajectory, but remains economicall...
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SOGEFOM: A guarantee fund that facilitates MSME access to bank loans
The SOGEFOM guarantee fund for the French Overseas Territories facilitates access for micro-, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to bank loans. Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is the...
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Brochure - Extension of the Research Facility on Inequalities
Following the success of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities’ first phase, AFD and the European Union have agreed to continue the programme in a second phase: the Extension.
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Biodiversity in Cities - Technical Guide
In order to respond to the challenges and growing demand of counterparts, partners and populations to better integrate nature in cities, AFD Group has developed this technical guide "Biodiversity in C...
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Covid-19: Solid Waste Management in Response to the Crisis
It is essential for public health to ensure the continuity of solid waste management services in a safe and sustainable way, especially in case of sanitary emergency such as the Covid-19 crisis. Not o...
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Women's Voices
The exhibition “Women’s Voices”, launched in Cambodia by AFD, aims to convey and raise the voices of inspiring Cambodian women involved in AFD-supported projects and to highlight their stories, their...
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3 questions to Carla Gutiérrez from the Gregoria Apaza Women's Promotion Center in Bolivia
On the occasion of the Generation Equality Forum which opened on June 30, 2021 in Paris, meeting with Carla Gutiérrez from the Gregoria Apaza Center for the Promotion of Women. Based in El Alto, Boliv...
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2020 Universal Registration Document
With commitments that stabilised in 2020, at €12.1 billion, and disbursements which were up 35% compared to 2019 to reach a record level of €8.8 billion, the AFD Group confirmed its capacity to mobili...
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Green Energy in South Africa
South Africa is an energy-intensive country and a major emitter of greenhouse gases because of the importance of the industrial sector in its gross domestic product (GDP), the use of coal for energy g...
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AFD Group Economic and Financial Transition
Let’s change horizon, let’s transform the economy. This is the goal of the economic and financial transition. Its guiding principle: build a longer-term vision of the economy to ensure that its object...
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Assam: Forest communities lead forest conservation
In Assam, AFD is supporting the Assam Project for Forest and Biodiversity Conservation (APFBC) as it trains local communities in alternate livelihoods. Through these new trades, local residents can su...
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2020 Sustainable Development Goals Bond Reporting
After having first defined a climate bond framework in 2017, in 2020, the AFD Group prepared an issuance Framework that is aligned with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This Framework was prepare...
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