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Three conferences on the prospects for Africa's economy?

With an uncertain economic climate, will African economies maintain the strong performances they have seen over the past decade? The development of agriculture and an agro-industry can help them to achieve this, provided a solution is found to the issue of land tenure.

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Conferences: Africa's economy
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"10-year milestone..."

AFD’s Brussels office opened in May 2002 and has allowed closer relations to be established between AFD, the European Union and the different European partners with regard to the development of Southern countries. Jean-Marc Bellot, its Director, tells us about the prospects for this partnership.

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AFD and the European Union
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"No agricultural development without agricultural credit, because farmers are the first investors"

With a new food crises looming in the Sahel, Jean-Luc François, Head of AFD’s Agriculture, Rural Development and Biodiversity Division, tells us about the challenges, the actions and the tools against hunger and food insecurity.
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Invest in Agriculture
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Aid evaluation in a tight spot

An ever-increasing demand for aid effectiveness evaluations, increasingly complex methods, declining budgets… Following the major conference organized by AFD and the European Development Network (EUDN), Laurent Fontaine, Head of Evaluation at AFD, tells us about the pressures faced by evaluators.

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Aid Evaluation
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Water: why and how AFD is taking action

This special report aims to help you learn more about the areas and tools of AFD’s activity in the water, sanitation, agricultural water and sustainable water management sectors. Videos, graphics and interviews…

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Has the Arab Spring
changed things?

What was said during the seminar organized by AFD and the Political Societies Analysis Fund on 1 February? The aim was to compare researchers’ views with those of actors of the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania. Video interviews and images of the meeting.

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Arab Springs
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Sustainable management in Congo Basin forests

AFD has decided to help Congo Basin forest countries move towards a more sustainable management of their forests. This ground-breaking support to Congo Basin States and forestry companies may be complex, but it offers win-win solutions. Learn more in this special report.

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Forests Management
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Water: why and how AFD is taking action

This special report aims to help you learn more about the areas and tools of AFD’s activity in the water, sanitation, agricultural water and sustainable water management sectors. Videos, graphics and interviews…

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6th World Water Forum
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Water: why and how AFD is taking action

This special report aims to help you learn more about the areas and tools of AFD’s activity in the water, sanitation, agricultural water and sustainable water management sectors. Videos, graphics and interviews…

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6th World Water Forum
Financing Africa's Cities

For Thierry Paulais, an AFD researcher, the conditions are right for better city development. This is essential to enhance economic effectiveness and improve living conditions for city dwellers. However, he says that this will only come about if there is a change of scale and if we rely on African-led financing.

 

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Africa's Cities
"Les mentalités doivent changer"

Dans le débat sur les liens entre démographie et développement, J.P. Guengant, chercheur et auteur de Comment bénéficier du dividende démographique ?, répond à nos questions. Selon lui, l'explosion démographique que connaît l'Afrique, et inédite, pourrait grêver lourdement ses perspectives de développement.

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Explosion démographique
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"China is a real high-speed laboratory in the fight against climate change"

In China, AFD gives priority to innovative projects that we will be able to reproduce in other countries, particularly in Africa. An interview with Sandrine Boucher, Director of AFD’s Beijing agency.

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China: Objective Climate
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Designing cities in Latin America

 

Aerial tramway in Medellin, Bus Rapid Transit system in Curitiba... The continent is at the cutting edge of innovation in urban mobility. Two AFD experts explain how the Latin American approach has revolutionized the way urban mobility is designed and how AFD is supporting this revolution.

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Designing cities
“The abolition of hunger is not utopian.”

Ismail Serageldin, Professor at the Collège de France, and Dov Zerah are marking the G20 Agriculture meeting by launching an appeal to abolish world hunger “now”. At the same time, two AFD experts have been reviewing AFD’s action for food security. 

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securité alimentaire

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Reconciling development and environmental protection

How does AFD work to protect the environment? How does it manage the impacts the projects it finances have on the environment? Anticipating the conference “Reconciling poverty eradication and quality of the environment”, Tiphaine Leménager, an AFD expert, answers our questions. Watch the video interview (in French)

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Development and environment

Development and environment
NGOs, a core partnership for French aid

In 2010, over sixty NGO projects were cofinanced by AFD. Catherine Bonnaud, Head of Partnerships with NGOs, answers our questions and makes a review of AFD’s NGO activity.

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Partnership with NGOs
New focus on health

 “For every dollar spent on family planning, four dollars are saved in the water, sanitation, education and health sectors…”.

Two AFD experts explain why health is an essential lever for development.

 

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Health & AFD
Haiti: "The projects are taking shape. They require all our energy"

Since the earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, AFD has pledged more than €100M for the reconstruction of the country, while pursuing projects that are already active. Priority has been given to rebuilding the Haitian State and to education, health and agriculture.
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2 years on from the earthquake

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    Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is a financial institution and the main implementing agency for France’s official development assistance to developing countries and overseas territories. It finances projects, programs and studies through grants, loans, guarantee funds and debt reduction-development contracts and provides capacity development support to its partners in developing countries.

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