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Our corporate social responsibility
In its 2025–2030 strategic roadmap, AFD Group sets out its new corporate social responsibility (CSR) ambition: to help align AFD Group’s operations with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by ensuring the quality of its actions, while also ensuring its internal practices reflect its mandate. This approach guides the work of its three entities: AFD, Proparco, and Expertise France.
Our areas of action
This shared momentum is reflected in a set of common values: commitment, integrity, openness, adaptability, and respect. These values help mobilize all of the Group’s expertise toward a shared goal – to create lasting impact.
To make its responsible approach more accessible, AFD Group has structured its action around four priority areas, supported by three cross-cutting levers that guide the Group’s overall strategy.
To help our colleagues understand the challenges of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and integrate them into their professional practices, AFD Group offers training and awareness-raising activities designed to structure their approach and adapt it to their specific roles.
© Alexandre Salle de Chou / AFD
Transparency and dialogue are key components of the Group’s duty of accountability, which is inherent to its public interest mandate.
© Dominique Fradin / AFD
Our corporate social responsibility and commitments
To enhance the clarity of its CSR approach, AFD Group has summarized its commitments in a dedicated booklet. This document presents the main pillars of its corporate social responsibility and reaffirms its ambition for 2025–2030: to become the first development bank fully aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Download 'Corporate social responsibility: our commitments'
Our Ethics charter
AFD Group has a professional ethics charter. It sets out the key principles that guide the actions of the Group and its staff – shared values, collective ambitions, and recommended behaviors – including a sense of public interest, commitment, integrity, openness, and adaptability.
Our Exclusion list
The purpose of the exclusion list is to clearly identify the types of activities that AFD Group refuses to finance – whether for environmental or social reasons, ethical or regulatory considerations, or based on normative requirements and strategic choices. Developed through a cross-cutting process across the Group, the exclusion list is applied by all three entities and covers all new financing granted in non-French countries and French Overseas Territories.
Our socially and environmentally responsible procurement plan (SPASER)
In 2025, AFD Group will publish its first socially and environmentally responsible procurement plan (SPASER), covering all three entities. This document reflects the Group’s ambition to integrate sustainability issues into its procurement practices – one of the key pillars of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitments. Following the 2024 release of a roadmap dedicated to responsible purchasing, the SPASER outlines the actions carried out in 2024, their outcomes, and the targets set for 2027 across three core commitments: reducing the environmental footprint of procurement; strengthening the social responsibility of purchasing; and supporting local economies and territories. The SPASER also sets out the transformation plan for future actions.
To report on its approach and results – and to strengthen dialogue with its partners on this issue – AFD Group publishes an annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) report. This report follows the technical frameworks of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), ISO 26000, the UN Global Compact, and French legislation on corporate transparency in social, environmental, and societal matters.
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