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From Paris 2024 to Dakar 2026: can sport deliver on the Sport4SD promises?
One year on from the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games and one year before the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, AFD Group remains fully committed to leveraging sport to drive sustainable development a...
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The Sevilla conference: reshaping global financial architecture – Interview with Rémy Rioux
During the fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive of AFD Group, reflects on the crucial stakes of this global meeting. As the current financia...
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Seville FfD4: aligning education aid for impact
In the education sector, fragmented aid and short-lived initiatives undermine the implementation of financing. In contrast, aligned common funds – those based on national priorities and partner countr...
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UNOC 2025: AFD honors France’s ocean commitments
At the third edition of the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC), AFD Group delivered tangible outcomes aligned with France’s ocean priorities. At this landmark event held in Nice, eight strategic f...
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Overseas France: shared solutions for shared oceans
Faced with disruptions linked to climate change and the degradation of their ecosystems, the French Overseas Territories are mobilizing. Through nature-based solutions, regional cooperation, and scien...
Giving new hope to Lebanese young people through vocational training
Lebanon has faced a series of overlapping crises since 2019 – economic, security, financial, and health – that have affected every sector of society. In light of this situation, AFD and its partners h...
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Leveraging French expertise to support socially responsible investment
AFD Group promotes and broadens the influence of French expertise by supporting 1,250 new projects a year in around 160 countries. These projects create a diverse range of business opportunities for n...
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Cape Town and AFD: an exemplary partnership for sustainable coastal resilience
As part of the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC), the Deputy Mayor of Cape Town, Eddie Andrews, explains the concrete progress made through the long-term partnership between his city and AFD (Agence Françai...
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How AFD takes action worldwide to protect the oceans
Having invested more than €4 billion in ocean-related projects since 2020, AFD works to preserve the oceans’ ecological health and reconcile their many uses by humankind.
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[Feature] Protecting Our Oceans
The oceans cover 71% of the Earth’s surface, hold 97% of its water, and play an essential role in protecting biodiversity, regulating the climate, providing resources, and producing oxygen. However, t...
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The IDBio Project: transforming biosourced wastes for more sustainable industries
The IDBio project, supported by the Academia Partnerships Africa-France Program (PeA), responds to a growing challenge in Africa: the development of renewable resources and sustainable waste managemen...
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French Overseas Territories: 5 key points on AFD Group's operations
AFD Group is a long-standing partner of France’s Overseas Territories, where it has been working for over eighty years. The Group’s financing helps improve the living conditions of people in Overseas...
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Khadija Bourass: boosting biodiversity in Morocco through bird conservation
Through her work leading GREPOM, an NGO for bird conservation in Morocco, Khadija Bourass resolutely defends Moroccan biodiversity. She advocates for wildlife and wetlands, with the conviction that wh...
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Mauritania: “Quality maternal health requires blood transfusion capability”
In Nouakchott, the new National Blood Transfusion Center marks a turning point in the fight against maternal mortality. With postpartum hemorrhage the leading cause of maternal deaths in Mauritania, a...
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AFD Group: maximizing impact in 2024
In 2024, AFD Group continued to expand its activity, with €13.7 billion in financing and over 1,250 new projects, to achieve its dual mandate: promoting solidarity for the most vulnerable communities...
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How evaluations inform the debate on solidarity-based investments
Evaluations are not only essential for determining the effectiveness of AFD Group’s actions, but also for identifying lessons that can inform future projects. The Group’s 2025 evaluation report explor...
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Developing bioeconomics in the Amazon to protect the planet
Reducing environmental degradation requires not only ecosystem preservation, but also economic and social growth. The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, and its inhabitants, have long been at the...
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Indonesia and AFD Group seek stronger partnership in sustainable development
Bilateral consultations between the Government of Indonesia and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group were held on April 24, 2025, in Jakarta. Chaired by Indonesia's Ministry of National Devel...
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Ten years on, the higher education and research program making a lasting impact in Africa
Launched in 2015, the African higher education Centres of Excellence program is celebrating ten years of transforming higher education across the continent. Led by the Association of African Universit...
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Sailing against the tide of waste: the ‘Plastic Odyssey’
As the world prepares for the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC), set to take place from 9 to 13 June 2025 in Nice, France, the stopovers of the laboratory ship Plastic Odyssey in the Indian Ocean mark an unp...
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