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Evaluation at AFD: A Powerful Tool to Improve Our Actions
Following AFD's two conferences on evaluation on September 28 and October 1, we examine its value as a tool to measure and assess development interventions. In this interview, Nathalie Le Denmat, Head...
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Improving financial inclusion: a priority in the Philippines
While the Philippines has been on a sustained growth trajectory since 2012 (+6.6% per year on average), its levels of poverty and income inequality are higher than most of its Southeast Asian neighbor...
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Rise: a Program to Develop Social Entrepreneurship in the Western Balkans
AFD is supporting “Rise” – a program to help young entrepreneurs in the Western Balkans set up social enterprises. They are a key component of the region’s continuing development, and part of efforts...
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The Kiwa Initiative: Call for Ideas 2021 Now Open for Regional Projects
The Kiwa Initiative aims to strengthen the climate change resilience of Pacific Island ecosystems, communities and economies through Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). Launched by AFD in 2020, the initiati...
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World Contraception Day: Supporting the Youth in Niger
Access to contraception is a major public health issue for women around the planet. To mark World Contraception Day on 26 September, AFD took a look at this issue through a major awareness-raising ini...
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[Feature Report] Looking Back on the IUCN World Conservation Congress
With France, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) organized its World Conservation Congress from September 3 to 11, 2021 in Marseille.
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UN Food Summit: “We Need to Recognize the Links between Climate Change and Food Security”
With the number of people suffering from hunger around the world continuing to rise, the UN held a world summit on the transformation of food systems on 23 September. Matthieu Le Grix, head of AFD’s A...
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AFD in the Middle East: Promoting Societal Cohesion with Vocational Support and Training
Transnational armed groups, inter-religious and inter-ethnic conflicts, population displacements - warfare may have changed, but human insecurity is still very much a major challenge today. On the hee...
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AFD Backing in Laos for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
Two new grants agreements have been signed in Laos, for a total of 9 million euros. One project supports coffee growers; the other provides support for sustainable management of natural resources. Tog...
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Promoting Open Science: the full catalog of AFD Publications now available
On the eve of the International Day of Universal Access to Information on September 28, AFD confirms its commitment to open science, in particular by making our publications freely available.
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Cambodia: 20 years of AFD Support for Rubber Producers
Since 1999, AFD has been supporting a sustainable and inclusive rubber industry in Cambodia. With the signature of a new project, which will assess the consequences of climate change for the sector, w...
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Lessons learned from the IUCN World Conservation Congress
The World Conservation Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) took place on September 3–11 in Marseille. This gathering helped put biodiversity protection high on the in...
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Assessment of Conservation Trust Funds: For the Benefit of Biodiversity
For the first time, a cross-cutting assessment of eight biodiversity conservation trust funds and their support by Agence française de développement (AFD) and the Fonds Français pour l’Environnement M...
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One Planet Summit: Eight Months on, Progress on Biodiversity
Agence française de développement is taking very concrete action to implement a series of initiatives stemming from the One Planet Summit in January 2021 and focused on biodiversity. A progress report...
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France and AFD, Key Partners of IUCN
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the French government, and Agence Française de Développement enjoy close ties, as exemplified by the successive partnerships the two parties...
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Costa Rica and France's Southeast: A Partnership for Biodiversity at the World Conservation Congress
The Diversity Partnership Project led by France's Southeast and Costa Rica, a pioneer country in biodiversity protection, was presented during the World Conservation Congress of the International Unio...
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How Public Development Banks can Support Biodiversity
Despite the decline in biodiversity around the natural world, solutions can be found in unexpected places. Public Development Banks can play a major role in mobilizing the finance necessary to protect...
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Kosovo: Using Sports to Facilitate Reconciliation
The NGO PLAY International uses sport to promote education and inter-ethnic reconciliation, which is of vital importance in a region once riven by ethnic conflict. PLAY is part of a multi-country proj...
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