Publications and media
Aligning International Education Financing: What Have We Learned over the Past Twenty Years?
Twenty years after the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, to what extent are international education financing flows truly aligned with national systems? Drawing on a retrospective study conducte...
Investing in climate and nature: the cost of inaction
A new episode of Cartes sur table with Audrey Rojkoff, Head of AFD's Climate and Nature Division.
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Energy transition: 2025 Activity report
In 2025, AFD Group’s energy sector financing reached a record high, with €2.8 billion in commitments, representing over 20% of its total activity. This unprecedented performance over the last five yea...
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Senegal: Changing lives through sport
In Senegal, many of the most vulnerable young people face barriers to taking part in sports, from a lack of facilities and resources to exclusion rooted in cultural norms.
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Mapping to Transform National Research Systems as the Horizon of Action
The collaboration between the Global Development Network (GDN) and Expertise France (EF) as part of the Savoirs Eco project (2023– 2026), funded by the European Union, is based on the principle that s...
رﺳم اﻟﺧراﺋط ﻣن أﺟل اﻟﺗﻐﯾﯾر أﻧظﻣﺔ اﻟﺑﺣث اﻟوطﻧﯾﺔ ﺑوﺻﻔﮭﺎ أﻓﻖ اﻟﻔﻌل
يستند التعاون بين الشبكة العالمية للتنمية (GDN) ووكالة الخبرة الفرنسية (EF)، في إطار مشروع «سَواهر إيكو» (Savoirs Eco) للفترة 2023–2026، المموَّل من الاتحاد الأوروبي، إلى مبدأ مفاده أن دعم منظومة أبحا...
Studies and research: 2025 sector overview
In 2025, our research continued its focus on the major challenges of sustainable development, with special attention paid to biodiversity, climate, natural resources, agriculture, and food security. O...
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Clean cooking in Africa: an urgent priority for health and climate
Nearly 80% of households in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to modern cooking solutions. Continued reliance on traditional fuels, such as wood and charcoal, poses major challenges for human devel...
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Migration: Activity report 2025
In line with France’s interministerial “Migration and Development” strategy (2023–2030), AFD Group substantially expanded its work in 2025 around three priorities:
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Governance: Activity report 2025
In 2025, AFD Group reaffirmed the role of governance in making development more effective. Its activity grew, driven by work on public finance reform, the green economy, security, and migration, to su...
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How is beekeeping boosting women's incomes in Zimbabwe?
Hands-on training in Matabeleland North, Mashonaland East and Manicaland provinces helped beekeepers strengthen their technical skills and improve the quality and productivity of their operations.
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Why is development essential in conflict zones?
Faced with wars, natural or health disasters, and population displacements, emergency humanitarian action is essential.
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Assessment of future flood inundation under the impacts of climate change and human activities in Central Viet...
This study evaluates the combined impacts of climate change and reservoir operations on flood dynamics in the Vu Gia Thu Bon River Basin, one of Vietnam’s most flood-prone regions. The analysis employ...
Transboundary Climate Risks: A Cross-Regional Analysis
Prevailing approaches to climate adaptation still tend to focus on managing impacts within local or national borders. Yet climate change impacts do not stop at national boundaries: they propagate acro...
How is Ethiopia transforming its electricity and digital networks?
The RISED project (Renewable, Integrated, Sustainable Energy & Digitalisation) supports Ethiopia’s electricity-sector transformation through four pillars: grid modernisation and rehabilitation, digita...
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How Can Public Development Banks Support the Energy Transition of Territories?
Energy policies designed at the national level produce different effects across territories and often prove insufficiently adapted to the diversity of local socioeconomic and environmental contexts. E...
How AFD Group supports closer ties with the EU
War in Ukraine, shifting alliances, the emergence of new spheres of influence… The European neighborhood is at the heart of intense geopolitical competition. Yet amid this turbulence, a major shift is...
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Mobility and transport: Activity report 2025
In 2025, AFD Group consolidated its commitment to sustainable, inclusive, safe, efficient, and low-carbon transport. Its work focused on urban mobility, national connectivity, and international transp...
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Digital technology: Activity report 2025
2025 was marked by growing risks of diverging development trajectories and heightened sovereignty concerns fueled by geopolitical divides. Against this backdrop, AFD Group stepped up its efforts to p...
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Accelerating Infrastructure Development: an investment priority
Infrastructure can range from hydroelectric power plants to solar mini-grids, large-scale urban metro projects to rural roads, and water treatment plants in big cities to water reserves in rural areas...
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