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“In Lebanon, Our Top Priority is to help the Most Vulnerable” - Olivier Ray, AFD’s Regional Director in Leban...
The massive explosions at Beirut’s port on August 4, which killed more than 200 people and injured thousands, are the latest in a series of tragic events to strike a country mired in crisis. AFD has r...
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AFD Group 2019-2020 Annual Results
With 14.1 billion euros committed in 2019, AFD Group finances and supports development projects in 115 countries. Find out more about in our online annual results.
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Launching a Call for “Sports and Health” Projects Supported by AFD and Fifa
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the pan-African financing platform Sport en Commun (“Sports in Common”, or sharing the sporting experience), to be officially launched on September 21, is issuing...
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Rwanda: AFD teams up with Red Cross to tackle Covid-19
To help the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with its response to the Covid-19 pandemic, AFD has just allocated it a €2 million grant. These funds will allow it to develop prevention a...
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Nature-Based Solutions: A Global Standard
Nature-based Solutions may have been proven effective in the fight against climate change, but they remain underused. One reason is there is no normative framework to harmonize practices and provide i...
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A Loan Symbolizing France's Commitment to Mauritius
AFD granted a €300 million contingency loan to the Mauritian government on July 27 as part of the response to the Covid-19 crisis. We look back at the issues at stake in this public policy loan and Fr...
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Reconciling Energy Transition and Economic Development in Cambodia: The 2050 Facility Mobilized
To meet the demands of a growing population while ensuring its development is sustainable: these are Cambodia’s twin goals under the Paris Agreement. The Ministry of Economy and Finance signed a Memo...
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How to Accelerate the Ecological Transition
To get feedback on AFD's “Territorial and Ecological Transition” strategy, we've launched an platform for online consultation. The Strategy covers a wide variety of topics, from our ecological footpri...
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€100 Million to Improve Education in Guinea and Niger
The Global Partnership for Education, which aims to improve the quality of learning and reduce inequalities in access to education, has delegated to AFD its mission to increase the effectiveness of th...
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Finance as a Fulcrum for change
Development depends on various kinds of finance, from grants to investment. AFD Group has begun to develop a number of incentive loans, where pricing is indexed to the progress made by borrowers in te...
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Seizing the Opportunity to Create Environmental Benefits
Since 2017, AFD has been pursuing four climate commitments to be achieved by 2022. At the halfway point, an initial review of the group's climate strategy reveals the degree of progress made as Damien...
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Ethiopia: Boosting Sustainable Farmland - and Farming Family Incomes
In southern Ethiopia, a project led by the NGO Inter Aide and supported by Agence Française de Développement aims to increase the resilience and incomes of small family farms. It is also improving acc...
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AFD Returns to Rwanda to Join in the Fight Against Covid-19
In the throes of Covid-19 crisis one month ago, France and Rwanda signed two funding agreements. The first will help the East African country in its fight against the pandemic. The second will support...
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Digital Africa Fund: Customized support for African start-ups
The Digital Africa seed fund for innovative entrepreneurship in Africa is off to a promising start, just six months on from its launch. Already, one third of the €15 million for technical and financi...
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Supporting African Small and Medium Business during the Covid Crisis: A Development Priority
As the pandemic takes hold and the economic ramifications intensify, a number of financial players, including partners of AFD and Proparco, are taking action to support African SMEs - small and medium...
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The Dominican Republic: From Deforestation to Reforestation
Since 2001, the watershed region of the Yaque del Norte, the main river in the Dominican Republic, has with AFD’s support, been experimenting with an unprecedented territorial management program recon...
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Agreement on the Development of the Electricity Sector in Egypt
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Government of Egypt have signed on 10Th June 2020, a new Development Program Financing (DPF) agreement for the development of Egypt’s Electricity sector...
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Adapt'action in Response to Climate Change: a €411 Million Boost
AFD’s Adapt'Action Facility supports 15 countries and regional organizations – from the Caribbean, to Cameroon and the Comoros – in building community resilience to the consequences of climate change....
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