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AFD winning a Deauville Green Award
AFD’s institutional film As the Earth Spins won a new award last week at the Deauville Green Awards,
an international festival for corporate films about ecology and sustainable development.
It received a silver trophy in the category “Corporate Social Responsibility”.
This festival was held in Deauville on 11 and 12 April 2012. During the two days, communication actors and professionals in the audiovisual sector gathered to attend screenings and symposiums.
150 films were in competition.
This event is a sign that communication actors are increasingly addressing the topic of sustainable development. It also shows the extent to which AFD has developed audiovisual production in recent years.
Beneficiaries’ testimonies, project stories, video-based evaluations… To date, AFD has made over 50 films.
We invite you to discover or rediscover this film:
La Journée de la Coopération Décentralisée de Cités Unies France, associée au 1er Forum "Pansons le Monde"
Cités Unies France a décidé de s’associer à l’ONG française ACTED et Convergences 2015 pour organiser le 25 janvier 2012 une Journée de la Coopération Décentralisée Santé en partenariat avec le 1er Forum "Pansons le Monde".
L’AFD interviendra lors de la table-ronde consacrée aux financements de la santé.
A cette occasion, nous vous invitons à échanger sur différents thèmes :
- Santé et coopération décentralisée
- Collectivités locales, acteurs privés, ONG : quelles convergences pour un accès universel à
- la santé ?
- Les OMD au service du renforcement des systèmes de santé
- La santé dans la continuité de l’action humanitaire
- Quels financements pour la santé dans les pays du Sud ?
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Rendez-vous de 9h30 à 19h |
Vous pouvez vous inscrire pour participer à cet événement en cliquant ici.
Dans le cadre de cette initiative, et afin de répondre au besoin des collectivités françaises de mieux se situer dans ce domaine central de la coopération décentralisée, ACTED et CUF co-présenteront les résultats de l’étude menée depuis fin 2010 « Coopération décentralisée et Santé ».
Le premier Baromètre Pansons le Monde sera publié. Ce document de plaidoyer est destiné à mettre en valeur les initiatives et les prises de position des participants sur les enjeux liés à l’accès à la santé.
La plateforme « Pansons le Monde »
En 2010, l’ONG ACTED a lancé l’initiative de la plateforme Pansons le Monde qui vise à fédérer les acteurs qui s’engagent en faveur de l’accès de tous aux soins et à des médicaments de qualité : collectivités locales, professionnels de la santé, structures associatives! Elle vise à proposer des solutions innovantes et à promouvoir des projets et des convergences pour assurer l’accès des populations les plus fragiles à des soins de qualité, en rassemblant les acteurs issus des secteurs public, associatif et privé, spécialisés ou généralistes.`
Les Journées de la coopération décentralisée
Cités Unies France a lancé les Journées de la coopération décentralisée en décembre 2006. Ces Journées, à vocation transversale, offrent aux collectivités une occasion de s’informer sur une thématique d’actualité grâce à une expertise de haut niveau. Cette première JCD de 2012 aura pour thématique la Santé.
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to attend upcoming international climate negotiations in Cancun
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) will be at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
In 2009, AFD financed 71 projects to combat climate change totalling €2.4 billion, practically double the 2008 figure. AFD mobilizes an extremely wide range of financial tools in order to meet its partners’ demands: grants, soft or market-rate loans, guarantees, dedicated lines of credit for local banks, budget support for the development of national strategies, support to NGOs and local authorities…
Projects financed by AFD in 2009 will help save 4.8 million tons of Co2 equivalent every year (the equivalent of the annual emissions of 1.7 million French cars). AFD is one of the world’s top donors for climate aid with a contribution that accounts for over 10% of international public financing.
AFD is active in debates on how to finance the fight against climate change, reduce deforestation (REDD+) and support adaptation.
Dov ZERAH, Chief Executive Officer of AFD: “Beyond the global challenges that are crucial to the planet, the new financing for the fight against climate change provides a formidable opportunity for African countries to achieve their sustainable development policies. It also gives them the possibility to develop the incredible potential they have for renewable energy, forests and agriculture”.
Among the experiences AFD will be presenting in Cancun:
- “Climate and Development Plans”
AFD has developed an innovative approach to financial and technical support for countries which unilaterally decide to include climate in their national development strategies. It is financing “Climate Plans” in Indonesia, Mauritius, Mexico and Vietnam and is helping African countries to define Climate Plans.
- Adaptation
AFD is helping the most vulnerable countries to strengthen their resistance to climate disturbances by developing adaptation projects in the water, agriculture, urban development and infrastructure sectors. These projects amounted to €400m in 2009. For example, in 2010 AFD has financed programs for water saving and water resources management in Morocco, Nigeria and the Niger River Basin.
- Forests
AFD has been involved in the implementation of sustainable forest development plans in the Congo Basin for fifteen years now and is heavily involved in the development of a new financial mechanism to enhance sustainable forest management (REDD+). For example, in 2010 AFD is financing a sustainable forest management project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as access to Astrium-SpotImage satellite imagery.
- Private sector
AFD builds partnerships with local banks because they have the capacity to orient and catalyze climate investment decisions, particularly from businesses. The amounts AFD has committed in the climate sector for local banks today reach almost €1 billion and concern some thirty banks in about ten developing and emerging countries, including China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Mauritius, Tunisia, Turkey, Senegal, South Africa and Thailand.
- Cities
AFD supports the integration of climate change into urban policies and finances the related development investments. For example, AFD is supporting the sustainable development strategy of Greater eThekwini (which includes Durban) and is financing exclusive right-of-way transport in Bogota and Medellin.
In order to help give a better understanding of the issues of the climate negotiation, AFD has also supported the publication of the Note de décryptage de la négociation climat de Cancùn (Keys to Understanding the Cancun Climate Negotiation), in partnership with the Institut de l’énergie et de l’environnement de la francophonie (IEPF). The report can be downloaded by clicking here.
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is a public development finance institution that has worked to fight poverty and support economic growth in developing countries and the French Overseas Communities for more than 60 years. AFD executes the French government’s development aid policies.
With offices in more than 50 countries, AFD finances and supports projects that improve people’s living conditions, promote economic growth and protect the planet. AFD-funded projects provide schooling for children, support farmers and small businesses, supply drinking water, preserve tropical forests and fight climate change, among other things.
AFD committed over €6.2 billion to financing aid activities in developing countries and the French Overseas Communities in 2009. The funds should permit the vaccination of 1.8 million children, give 7.3 million people access to drinking water and create or save jobs for 900,000 workers engaged in private enterprise; funding for energy efficiency projects will save nearly 5 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.
For further information about AFD and climate: http://climat .afd.fr
Press contacts
Laure Weisgerber, weisgerberl@afd.fr
Natacha Dreux (Hopscotch), ndreux@hopscotch.fr
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