Press releases
AFD Supports Uzbekistan Green Economy Transition
On April 19th 2022, the Uzbek Ministry of Finance and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed an agreement to foster the country’s green economy transition.
South Africa: Infrastructure Fund Partners with AFD
The Infrastructure Fund (IF), a ring-fenced division at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) launched a new partnership on Tuesday 12 April 2022 a...
Ghana Receives a Grant of €44.7M from the European Union and France to Build Irrigation Infrastructure in Nort...
The Government of Ghana, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union (EU) have signed the Agriculture Water Management Project (€44.7 million) to build and rehabilitate a total of 3...
Rwanda: AFD Group Opens its Doors in Kigali
On March 31st and April 1st 2022, Rémy Rioux, the CEO of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) will visit Rwanda for the 4th time since June 2019. On this occasion, AFD Group will officially unveil...
New Lock-Dam to Combat Climate Change Impacts Kim Son, Ninh Binh Province
A new lock-dam was inaugurated in Kim Son, Ninh Binh province, in presence of Cécile Vigneau, First Counsellor of the Embassy of France in Vietnam and Hervé Conan, Director of the Agence Française de...
AFD and EU support Uzbekistan sustainable development through two projects in sanitation and livestock sectors
The Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed two agreements to work together on the development of sanitation infrastructure in Navoi, Kitob and Shah...
Numerous and Promising Results for Sustainable Management of Forests After More Than 10 Years of Franco-Turkis...
On the occasion of the closing committee of their cooperation project, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Turkish General Directorate of Forests (OGM) and the National Office of the Forests-...
A Stronger Partnership for Sustainable Finance Between Indonesia and France: PT SMI, AFD and CDC Deepen Their...
Edwin Syahruzad, President Director of PT SMI, and Rémy Rioux, Director General of Agence Française de Développement, signed a new partnership agreement to continue and strengthen cooperation between...
Voltalia sells a minority stake in its largest solar plant, SSM1&2, located in the Serra Branca cluster in Bra...
STOA, an investment fund specialized in infrastructure projects in developing and emerging countries and Voltalia (Euronext Paris, ISIN code: FR0011995588), an international player in renewable energi...
TNFD Releases First Beta Version of Nature-related Risk Management Framework for Market Consultation
The first beta version of framework marks an important step by the market to tackle the risk of nature loss and incorporate nature-related risk and opportunity analysis into the heart of corporate and...
Researchers Warn Vietnam Could Warm Up to 6°C by Century’s End
A new report warns that if nothing is done to fight climate change, temperatures could rise by as much as 6° in Vietnam in the worst case scenario, with disastrous consequences for people and the envi...
AFD Issues Its First Ever Off-Shore Chinese Renminbi (CNH) Bond
On March, 10th Agence Française de Développement (AFD) priced its first ever Offshore Chinese Renminbi linked bond.
Global Africa, a multidisciplinary and multilingual journal addressing the future of the African continent in ...
The members of the Global Africa consortium – University Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis (UGB, Senegal), National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD, France), the Laboratoire d'études et...
Artificial intelligence in support of marine biodiversity: introducing an unprecedented international scient...
Even as the One Ocean Summit has drawn fresh attention to the urgent need to protect oceans, the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche–ANR), with joint funding from Agence...
AFD successfully launches its first euro-denominated benchmark issuance in 2022 : € 750 million 1.125% due 2 M...
On Wednesday February 23rd, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), rated AA /AA (S&P / Fitch), issued its first euro benchmark for the funding year of 2022 with a new € 750 million 15-year transacti...
Sustainable Finance in the Indopacific: Final Communiqué
AFD and the India Exim Bank (EXIM) have co-organized in Paris on February 21st, 2022, on the eve of the EU ministerial Forum for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, an important gathering of public devel...
AFD Group and Rwanda to improve the teaching and learning of French across the educational system
On Friday 18th February, Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana, Minister of Economic Planning and Finance, Dr. Valentine Uwamariya, Minister of Education, Ambassador of France to Rwanda Antoine Anfré and Mr. Arthur...
France and Rwanda’s Public Development Banks to Partner for Sustainable Growth
On Friday February 18th, Ms. Kampeta Sayinzoga, CEO of the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) and Mr. Arthur Germond, country Director of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Rwanda, signed tw...
Investing Together, For a New Alliance Between Africa and Europe
European development and finance institutions have published a new joint statement to reinforce their commitment for an improved European offer on the eve of the EU-AU Summit.
The Clean Oceans Initiative doubles its commitment to provide €4 billion by 2025 to protect the Oceans and wel...
11 February 2022 – Today at the One Ocean Summit in Brest, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and KfW acting on behalf of the German Federal Government com...