Gender and Development

Gender and Development

Agence Française de Développement has been integrating gender problematics for several years both in its in-house functioning and its operational activities. AFD sets its reflection and action in the framework of conventions and programmes resulting from international conferences approved by France with the aiming of fostering gender equality. This issue is also part of its new sustainable development policy.

Activities related to “gender and development” problematics are divided up between institutional monitoring, participation in national and international reflection (OECD/DAC Gendernet network, French Gender and Development Platform…) and operational activities.

On an operational level, apart from integrating gender in project and programme processing and implementation (infrastructure, urban development, trade capacity building, rural development, water and sanitation…), AFD undertakes methodological research which aims to make practical recommendations and tools available, both in-house and to donors, in order to ensure a better integration of this problematic into activities.