Press releases
Generation Equality Forum High Level Event: Development Banks Accelerating Actions for Gender Equality
Public Development Banks (PDBs) – national, regional or multilateral development banks, development finance institutions, national promotional banks, and export credit agencies – gathered today at Gen...
Launch of the Qarib Project: France Pledges to Support Lebanese Media Outlets in the Face of Crises
Under the patronage and in the presence of the Ambassador of France to Lebanon, Canal France International (CFI) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD), in partnership with the Institut Français...
TDB and AFD to Improve Resilience of Health Systems in Africa
On 30 June, 2021, Mr. Admassu Tadesse, Managing Director and President Emeritus of the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) Group and Mr. Ghislain de Valon, Kenya Country Dir...
Mozambique: Signing of the MoU to Strengthen the Fight Against Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism
Signing of the MoU for the implementation of the technical assistance program to the Bank of Mozambique (BCM) to strengthen its anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT...
“Invest in Nature, Green is Gold”: First China-France-European Union Dialogue of 2021 Mainstream Biodiversity ...
24 June 2021, Beijing: A conference on biodiversity financing, gathering Chinese and international Financial and Environmental Stakeholders was held in Beijing today. This dialogue was organized by th...
The EU and AFD are supporting Sudan to foster and improve the Gum Arabic industry
Together with the Government of Sudan, the European Union (EU) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD), are launching a project that will increase the production and improve the quality of the Sud...
AFD Signs a Grant Agreement with Postfin in Namibia
NamPost Financial Brokers (Pty) Ltd (PostFin) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed a grant agreement in Windhoek to increase financial inclusion and encourage the implementation of micro...
Namibia: AFD Signs a Grant Agreement with EIF to Provide Financial Support for Conservation
The Environmental Investment Fund (EIF) and Agence Française de Développement signed an agreement in Windhoek today, to support the design of sustainable financing solutions benefiting to the conserva...
AFD Signs a MoU with Namibian Government and BRGM on Groundwater Management
The Namibian Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform (MAWLR) and the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding with Agence Française d...
AFD to Finance the First Grid Connected Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant in Tanzania and the Modernization of El...
The Government of Tanzania and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed today in Dodoma a financing agreement for an amount of 130 M€ (approximately 366 bn TZS) which will be on-lent to Tanzania...
France renews its support to development projects in Georgia through a Cooperation Program for 2021-2023
On June 10, Finance Minister Mr. Lasha Khutsishvili and AFD Regional Director for Eurasia Ms. Cécile Couprie signed a Partnership Agreement on Cooperation Program for 2021-2023 in presence of Georgian...
France, via its public development bank, and Smart Africa to support African data protection
On April 27 2021, Mr. Lacina Koné, Director General of the Smart Africa Secretariat, a non-governmental organization registered in Kigali, and Mr. Christian Yoka, Regional Director for the French Deve...
Lebanon: AFD, IECD and Semeurs d’Avenir Launch the "Maharat Li Loubnan 2" Project to Support Technical and Pro...
Under the high patronage of the French Ambassador to Lebanon, H.E. Mrs. Anne Grillo, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Institut Européen de Coopération et Développement (IECD), in pa...
AFD successfully launches its new long 7-year SDG Benchmark Transaction
On Monday 07th June 2021, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), rated AA / AA (S&P / Fitch) (Stable / Negative) successfully launched a new EUR 1.5 billion SDG bond maturing on November 25th 2028....
AgroParisTech "SUEZ - Water for All" Chair: four-year partnership to meet the climatic and urban challenges of...
AgroParisTech, SUEZ, the Fondation SUEZ with Agence Française de Développement and ESSEC Business School, in association with the Agence de l’Eau Rhône Méditerranée Corse, have committed to establishi...
AFD and INCA Portfolio Managers sign agreement to finance public services in intermediate cities
Johannesburg, 29 May 2021. Agence Française de Développement (AFD), INCA Portfolio Managers (IPM) and the Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO) met in Pretoria today to sign a financial a...
France and South Africa join forces to protect biodiversity in South Africa and on Reunion Island, with the su...
Pretoria, Saturday 29 May 2021. A bipartite agreement between South African National Parks (SANParks - the public institution managing South Africa’s national parks) and Agence Française de Développem...
AFD Signs an MoU With TRACE Global and Senghor University
Agence Française de Développement (AFD), TRACE Global and the Senghor University met in Johannesburg today to sign a Memorandum of Understanding. The three signatories will collaborate on a project to...
AFD Committed, Alongside the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, to the Teaching of French in Rwan...
On May 27, in the context of the visit of the President of the French Republic to Rwanda, Mr. Rémy Rioux, Director General of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Ms. Louise Mushikiwabo, Franco...
AFD Continues to Support Rwanda's Covid-19 Response
On May 27, on the sidelines of the visit of the President of the French Republic to Rwanda, Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana, Minister of Economy and Economic Planning of Rwanda, and Mr. Rémy Rioux, Director Ge...
