2006 News archive

2006 News archive

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December 2006

 

Ouverture des portails Sénégal et Turquie

L'Agence Française de Développement dispose désormais de deux nouveaux portails géographiques ; ceux du Sénégal et de la Turquie. Vous y trouverez toutes les informations relatives aux stratégies et aux activités de ces deux agences de l'AFD.

 

Publication of a book devoted to the photographer Uchechukwu James-Iroha

 

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A book devoted to the photographer James-Iroha Uchechukwu has been published. This prize is given to the winner of the Elan Prize created by the AFD and awarded to the Nigerian artist at the last African Photography Festival in Bamako in 2005. < Next >

 

 

 

November 2006

 

What is the use of helping the South? by Serge Michaïlof

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The book answers this question by describing a wide range of development accomplishments in many South Countries over the past decades <Read more>

 

4th conference AFD / EUDN

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The 4th AFD/EUDN conference was held in Paris on 8th November 2006 on the topic "Migration and Development: Mutual Benefits?"

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The website Regards sur la Terre 2007 is online

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AFD, Iddri (Institute of sustainable development and international relations) and Presses Sciences Po organized a conference-debate on October 26th to mark the publication of the annual sustainable development report "Regards sur la Terre” (Earth Watch), For information, please visit the site Site Regards Sur la Terre.

 

 

September 2006

 

Health Portal online

The Health Portal is online giving access to information on AFD strategy and activities in this sector. To enter, either click on the drop-down menu on the homepage or click here

 

AFD-IFOP Poll

According to an AFD-IFOP poll carried out over the summer, 83 % of the French consider France plays an important role in development aid. Click here to access the poll

 

Urban Development Brochure

City growth has marked the beginning of the new millennium with almost a million new inhabitants in urban areas every week. By 2030 the global population will have reached 8 billion <Read the report>

 

A new phase is reached in the wastewater treatment plant project in Fes

At the beginning of 2007 Morocco plans to present a project to the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism of the United Nations Convention for Climate Change Secretariat. The objective of the project is to recover energy from biogas emissions at the wastewater treatment plant in Fes. Click here for the press release

 

 

August 2006

 

Sustainable Development: AFD and the Global Compact

In keeping with its principles and its membership of the UN Global Compact, the AFD is committed to promoting a policy of Social and Environmental Responsibility (SER) <More>

 

Education Portal online

The Education Portal is online giving access to information on AFD strategy and activities in this sector. To enter, either click on the drop-down menu on the homepage or click here.  

 

 

July 2006

 

Working Document N°22 – American Philanthropic Foundations, emerging actors in globalisation and cornerstones of the transatlantic dialogue

By Benoît CHERVALIER, Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Joseph ZIMET, an AFD officer <Read the document>

 

 

Pro-Poor Growth in the 90s

The AFD, World Bank, DFID and BMZ have published a joint report: Pro-Poor Growth in the Nineties, in the framework of the research program : Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth

 

 

June 2006

 

Development Aid Report 2005-2006: challenges of an unstable environment

Development Aid Report 2005-2006: challenges of an unstable environment                                         

by Jean-Bernard Véron - 387 Ko   <Read the Report>

 

 

May 2006

 

 

Annual Report 2005

The AFD annual report 2005 looks back at the highlights of the year and outlines strategic prospects for the future.  <Read the Report>

 

 

April 2006

 

Signing of a financing agreement on 3 April 2006 with the Kenyan NGO “Green Belt Movement” of Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Movement” of Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Winner. The 1.3 million euro project comprises the rehabilitation of the water tower in the Aberdares protected mountain range in Kenya, which supplies drinking water to the capital Nairobi’s 3 million inhabitants and protects biodiversity. Almost 300 women’s associations will be involved in awareness-raising and forest maintenance activities.
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