Strategic Areas

Strategic Areas

Orientation Plan (2007-2011)

Following the adoption of new statutes, the signing of the framework agreement and performance contracts with the State, in 2007, AFD implemented its second Strategic Orientation Plan (POS2), which defines its main orientations until 2011. 

Europe is a priority issue for the partnership policy defined in this Plan. In this context, AFD pledges:

• to consolidate its partnerships within existing platforms for consultation such as EDFI, which gathers 15 European operators specialized in financing the private sector;

• to lead the “Practitioners' Network for Development Cooperation”, which provides a forum for consultation among European donors.

• to operationalize the “European Code of Conduct” so that it can be used as a tool to improve the aid effectiveness of the Commission and Member States for the benefit of developing countries;

• to strengthen the financial instruments developed by the Commission and Member States, which have a potential to create a platform of European development finance instruments blending bilateral donors’ resources with Commission resources. AFD has, in this respect, invested in the EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund;

This strategy aims to contribute to the creation of a European development assistance system based on a greater synergy between community and bilateral levels via cofinancing, basket funds and joint strategic research.

Relations with the Commission (AIDCO, DEG-DEV, DEG-RELEX), bilateral agencies (including KfW with an enhanced partnership) and EIB will be a priority for this. A new area for AFD involves scaling up the relations it has built with NGOs and civil society (go to NGOs), developing partnership activities with decentralized cooperation (go to Governance and Local Actors), and elected officials (go to EP).

Indeed, AFD is aware of the fact that new actors are emerging and growing in number and has made a paradigm shift from being a provider of financing to States alone to becoming a partner for non-State beneficiaries, and, even more so, a mediator, a catalyst, in order to promote the initiatives of the widest possible number of actors and beneficiaries. This has required adapting its financial tools.