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Improving Access to Water and Sanitation for millions in Ethiopia

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Water and Sanitation
Gender Equality
Africa
Ethiopia
Ethiopia
World Toilet Day on November 19 highlights the dangers of lacking sanitary facilities, and the search for sustainable solutions. With an estimated 419 million people practising "open defecation" worldwide, the need for access to clean, safe toilets for all is more urgent than ever. Which is why AFD is funding a number of initiatives, including two flagship projects in Ethiopia. One will provide 2.6 million people with improved, gender-sensitive sanitation facilities and the second will improve access to water for 1 million people in 45 towns.
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5 Things to Know about the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact

Tag Financial Systems Climate
Aerial view of Saint-Louis (Senegal)
Developing countries are exposed to a growing number of threats, from climate change to health emergencies, as well as the global financial fallout from political and military crises. How to provide them with the support they need? The Summit for a “New Global Financial Pact,” in Paris on 22 and 23 June, will seek answers to this dilemma. We unpack five aspects of this groundbreaking summit.
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On the Ground

The Philippines: Working with Local Communities to Build Climate Resilience

Tag Climate Infrastructure Philippines
Philippines typhon inondation climat catastrophe
The Philippines is the fourth most disaster-prone country in the world, a situation that is becoming increasingly urgent in the face of climate change. AFD Group is working with the Government and local authorities to meet their financing needs to usher in structural reforms and manage disaster risks. The aim is to help build people’s resilience to the growing threat posed by climate change, natural disasters and increasingly volatile weather events.
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Interview

“More tech companies are developing in Africa than in the rest of the world”

Tag Digital and Innovation Africa Cameroon Congo Egypt Ghana Guinea Kenya Morocco Nigeria Central African Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Senegal
Burundi students using a portable media library near Bujumbura, provided by Libraries without Borders
Digital technology is playing an increasingly prominent role in Africa’s economic development. In fact, more tech companies are developing across the continent than in the rest of the world. In the approach to the VivaTech technology and start-up event in Paris from June 14 to 17, we interview Alain Kiyindou co-author of “African Economies in 2023.”
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“Housing is Key to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”

Tag Sustainable Cities
Bidonville quartier logement habitat
AFD is attending the UN Habitat Assembly from 5 to 9 June in Nairobi, Kenya, which will seek to make the world’s cities more sustainable. From affordable housing to pollution emergencies, the issues being tackled affect every region in the world, rich and poor. Audrey Guiral-Naepels, Deputy Director of AFD’s Urban Development Division, tells us about how development is linked to housing, and AFD’s work in this sector.
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Sport and Development: AFD’s Action Explained in One Infographic

Tag Sports and Development
Sport et développement - Notre action en un clin d'oeil
Sport has the power to bring people together around common values and contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially for health, education and gender equality. Between 2012 and 2022, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) invested 130 million euros in sport and development projects. Our action at a glance in a dedicated infographic!
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AFD is "more Latin American than you think!"

Tag Governance Latin America
Barranquilla in Colombia
Until June 10, France is celebrating the tenth edition of Latin America and Caribbean Weeks. On this occasion, AFD Group is organizing a series of events aimed at deepening the links between the two regions and promoting projects launched with our partner countries and civil society organizations. We catch up with Marie-Pierre Bourzai, Director of AFD Group's Latin America Department.
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Ethiopia: Making Menstrual Hygiene Safer and more Sustainable

Tag Education and Training Health and Social Protection Africa Ethiopia
Training of women on menstrual hygiene in Ethiopia
Globally, more than three billion people lack basic sanitation services, which can have dire consequences for women and girls in particular, as those lacking access to toilets and water are more vulnerable to poor menstrual hygiene and the potentially grave health risks that result. In Ethiopia, 72% of women and girls say they’re unable to manage their menstruation with dignity. AFD is therefore backing Care Ethiopia’s ambitious project to improve menstrual health. We take a closer look in the approach to Menstrual Hygeine Day on 28 May.
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Sanitation in Brazil: from Mud to Energy

Tag Water and Sanitation Latin America Brazil
Boues d'épuration Brésil
Water and sanitation companies in several Brazilian states are carrying out an ambitious project to improve wastewater treatment and recover sewage sludge. This is part of an overall effort to better protect the environment, and advance towards the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Objectives.
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How AFD Group's Projects Protect, Preserve and Restore Biodiversity

Tag Agriculture and Rural Development Biodiversity Climate Governance
Surrounded by Mangroves in Gabon's Akanda National park, a nature-based protector of biodiversity
AFD Group finances hundreds of projects that preserve and restore biodiversity around the planet. From the protection of precious rain forests in Latin America, to the preservation of marine life in Africa and across the Pacific region, it's all part of the Group’s growing financial commitment to safeguarding nature, which is on track to double to €1 billion by 2025. In the approach to this year's International Day of Biological Diversity, we look at some of AFD's flagship initiatives.
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AFD Group's 2022 Results: Fulfilling Ambitious Objectives

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Résultats 2022 groupe AFD
In its first full year of existence, the new and expanded AFD Group fulfilled its ambitious funding commitments, signing €12.3 billion of new financing in 2022. As revealed in AFD’s Annual Results published this week, the Group helped take French development policy to new heights, with priority given to Africa in particular.
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Africa's Great Green Wall: Restoring Land for Food Security

Tag Agriculture and Rural Development Biodiversity Climate Africa
GGW
The Great Green Wall, the largest living structure on the planet, stretches some 8,000 km across Africa from Mali and Senegal to Sudan. Backed by AFD, eleven countries are working to reverse desertification, enhance land restoration, and promote revenue-generating activities to ensure food security. In a detailed infographic, we shed light on three countries that have stepped up their efforts since 2021: Mauritania, Chad and Ethiopia.
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AFD and Reporters without Borders: Defending Journalists…and Journalism

Tag Crises and conflicts Governance
Brassard presse
At a time when the right to publish, write and speak freely are being repeatedly attacked, World Press Freedom Day on May 3, is an opportunity to take stock of initiatives aimed at protecting journalists and the work they do. AFD has strengthened its partnership with Reporters without Borders, to support the NGO in its mission to defend journalists and journalism.
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On the Ground

Reinventing the “Venice of Africa”

Tag Agriculture and Rural Development Africa Benin
Ganvié cité lacustre du Bénin
In the south of Benin, in the lake village of Ganvié, buildings are perched on stilts, and traffic consists not of cars, but canoes. Yet the the picturesque site known as the “Venice of Africa" is being threatened by the combined effects of climate change, pollution and a growing population. AFD Group is supporting moves to protect the area, in a project known as “Reinventing the Lake Village of Ganvié."
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Overhauling Bangladesh’s Factories, 10 Years on from the Rana Plaza Disaster

Tag Gender Equality Employment Infrastructure Bangladesh
Workers at the Ananta Factory in Bangladesh
The collapse of a factory complex in Bangladesh ten years ago, which killed more than 1100 people, was a stark reminder of the deadly conditions in which factory workers produced name-brand clothing for consumers around the world. Since then, factories have made major improvements to worker safety and well-being, with support from AFD and other European development agencies. Ten years on from the Rana Plaza disaster, we take stock of one major initiative.
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