One Health Summit: better health for all life and the planet

As a public development bank, AFD can provide the long-term financing essential to transform health systems, support ecological transition, mobilize other donors, attract private financing, and structure coalitions.

The One Health approach supported by AFD fosters interdisciplinary thinking and collaborative practice, adaptable to various health-related sectors, including:

• Food systems, agroecology,
• Urban development, transport,
• Sustainable management of natural resources, climate change mitigation,
• Water and sanitation, renewable energy.

In these areas, AFD Group has defined priority intervention strategies to better integrate this approach into its projects:

• Integrating surveillance systems for coordinated health monitoring, from early warning to strengthening diagnostic capacity,
• Preserving biodiversity through restoration, expansion and sustainable management of natural spaces (marine and terrestrial),
• Promoting sustainable agricultural practice that are economically viable, environmentally sound, and socially equitable,
• Preventing, preparing for and responding to health emergencies by strengthening strategic preparedness, early warning and epidemic control capacity,
• Adapting health systems to climate change to anticipate health consequences of climate change and foster sustainable pathways,
• Strengthening laboratories and integrated networks by improving their capacity at the national level and developing regional networks,
• Developing specialized human resources through training programs and awareness-raising activities on One Health challenges for the professionals involved.

April 7 2026 – 09:30-12:30 

Investing in One Health: fostering Public Development Banks investment

In a context of global polycrisis — climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, pandemic risks, and fiscal constraints — investing in integrated and preventive One Health approaches constitutes both a strategic and economic imperative. At a time when international health financing is under pressure, stronger alignment between national priorities and long-term financing is more essential than ever.

Organized by the AFD Group, Finance in Common, and the Coalition for Social Investment, this event aims to strengthen the capacity of Public Development Banks to support nationally defined One Health strategies through coordinated, structured, and sustainable investments.

Recognizing that prevention and resilience rely on cross-sectoral governance and sustained financing, the organizers structure the event around three complementary objectives.

• First, to promote investment by highlighting its economic, environmental, and health value, and to identify how Public Development Banks can increase and structure their commitments through appropriate financial instruments, strategic partnerships, and effective coordination mechanisms.
• Second, to clarify operational modalities by presenting concrete examples and providing a structured overview of priority investments.
• Third, to strengthen accountability and collective learning by fostering dialogue on tagging and tracking approaches, and by defining the foundations of a shared roadmap to progressively align the tracking of One Health financial flows.

Welcome: 9:30 – 9:40

Mr Grégory Doucet Mayor of Lyon- Welcome

Mr Rémy Rioux, AFD Chief Executive Officer and FICs Chairman: Opening speech: Reforming the Financial Architecture to address the Planet and People agenda.

Moderator: Agnes Soucat, Director Health and Social Protection, AFD:

• Honorable Minister Muhammad Pate, Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Nigeria : Key note speech: from the COVID19 crisis to the New Financing Agenda.
• H.E. Moussa Faki, Special Envoy for the Pact for Prosperity, People and the Planet (4P):Keynote speech: From Seville to Accra and Lyon: Financing One Health in a Changing World
• Dr Sania Nishtar, CEO, the GAVI alliance Keynote speech: a new financial architecture for global health
• Ms Priya Basu, Executive Head Pandemic Fund: Keynote speech- Pandemic fund’s partnership with MDBs
• H.E. Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General, Africa CDC: keynote speech: how countries can make the best use of the PDB financial tools to better finance One Health investment
• Mr Akihiko Nishio, Vice President, Development Finance, World Bank: Keynote speech: financing instruments to respond to health and the planet challenges.
• Prof Serge Morand, One Health High Level Expert Panel OHHLEP: Keynote speech: One Health and Planetary Health.

Moderator: Agnes Soucat, Director Health and Social Protection, AFD:

Introduction

• Ms Florika Fink-Hooijer, Director General HERA (European Union): keynote speech: from threat assessments to medical countermeasure development-why investing in preparedness matters
• Dr Victor Dzau, G20 High Level Independent Panel:  on PPR Co-Chair and President of the US National Academy of Medicine: conclusions of the second report “closing the deal: financing our security against Pandemic threats” the role of PDBs in the financing framework proposed 

Panelists

• Ms Cécile Billaux, Director Social Inclusion and Protection Health and Demography, INTPA: EU concessional instrument for blending (EFSD+)
• Ms Diane Menville, Associate Vice President FIDA, chief financial officer: Keynote speech: a financial architecture to support the agro-ecological transition
• Mr Idrissa Dia, Director, Economic & Social Infrastructure, Islamic Development Bank: entering the field of One health
• Stavros Nicolaou, Group Senior Executive Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited: How can the private sector work more with PDBs?
• Ms Maha Keramane,Head of the BNP Paribas Impact and Inclusion Accelerator: Development Impact Bonds/ Social impact Bonds in synergy with PDBs.
• Mr Benoit Faraco, Ambassador for Climate Negotiations, Renewable Energy, and Climate Risk Reduction, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France. How can climate finance—both public and private—be better directed to contribute to the One Health agenda?

Conclusions and key takeaways for high level segment: Dr Agnès Soucat: AFD head of Health and social protection division 

Through examples, this session will showcase One Health key investment and will focus on why it is critical to invest in national and regional public health institutions, resilient health systems and systems for health (agroecology, environment, biodiversity, social protection). 

Moderation and framing: Nils Gade, Director One Health program, GIZ: what did we learn so far in supporting OH investment at large? What the field experience tells us to better inform OHs’ future investment? 

• Mr Benoit Vallet, Cour des Comptes: Financing One Health Institutions: the example of France
• Ms Juliette Janin: Head of mission education, culture, vocational training, entrepreneurship, gender and health at the Indian Ocean Commission:  Investing in integrated surveillance, the experience of SEGA One health network
• Dr. Prima Yosephine, Director of Communicable Diseases, MOH Indonesia- Collaborative Approach for Resilient Surveillance and Pandemic Preparedness in Indonesia
• Mr Rikard Elfving, Principal Social Sector Specialist, Asian Development Bank, Regional Flyway Initiative: Climate Investments that Benefit People and Nature.
• Ms Emilie DANIEL GARCIA, Expertise France: Resilience of health systems and social protection in the Dominican Republic

The session will address the question of One Health finance tagging as a first milestone in PDB roadmap to better support One Health investments.

Moderation and key takeaways: Dr Tamer Rabie, Global Program Lead for Climate and Health, World Bank:

• Mr Marc Leandri, Associate Professor (MCF HDR) - Université Paris Saclay / UMI SOURCE (IRD): framing the question related to One Health tagging, why it matters, what are the challenges.
• Ms Francesca Colombo, Head of OECD Health Division, OECD:  what can OECD experience teach us to guide OH tagging methodology, and how does it articulate with the PPR Tracker ambition: scope, synergies, next steps?

Honorable Minister, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia: moving forward, the tale of one country

Honorable Minister, Mustapha Ferjani, Minister of Health of Tunisia: concluding remarks

Brochure: 

AFD and the One Health approach

Publications: 

How can mutually beneficial economic interactions between transhumant and sedentary populations be promoted in the Sahel?

Evaluation of the Health in Common 2020 Initiative (HIC 2020)