Publications and media
Migrants, Markets, and Mayors
Research on migration and urban development in Africa has primarily focused on larger cities and rural-to-urban migration. However, 97 percent of Africa’s urban centers have fewer than 300,000 inhabit...
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The Commons- Overview in Arabic
An overview in Arabic of The Commons- Drivers of Change and Opportunities for Africa also available in French and in Swahili (overview).
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Evaluation Highlights: In Chad, a project to ensure food security in the capital
The Bahr Linia peri-urban area plays an essential role in the food security and food independence of Chad’s capital, N’Djamena. The Bahr Linia Hydro-agricultural Development Project (PAHA-BL), which s...
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AFD & KfW activities in the context of Loss and Damage - Position paper
First mentioned in 1991, Loss and Damage (L&D) has become the third pillar of the climate negotiations within a few years. In the absence of an agreed UNFCCC definition, a number of competing framings...
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Financing without doing harm: for virtuous mechanisms to support african social science research
African research has scarcely begun to emerge at international level: Africa’s overall share in global publications stands at about 3.5%, and the social sciences represent a tiny fraction of this figu...
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Interventions in Contexts of Armed Conflict
Recent experience shows that development projects must avoid various pitfalls when working to stabilize conflict zones. Mediation, reintegration, and negotiation projects must not neglect political mo...
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Sport: an accelerator of sustainable development
Sport has the power to bring people together around common values and contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially for health, education and gender equality....
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Evaluation of projects with climate adaptation co-benefits in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar (2007-2018)
Since 2015, AFD’s financing for projects with "adaptation" co-benefits - helping to respond to the risks associated with global warming while targeting other development objectives - has risen sharply...
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Coping with Climate Change in Africa in Numbers
Africa is particularly exposed to the impact of global warming. Average temperatures in Africa have already risen by 1.4 degrees centigrade since the pre-industrial period, as compared to + 1.1 °C...
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The Commons, vectors for development in East Africa
East Africa, like the rest of the continent, is currently facing increasingly complex social and environmental dilemmas. Faced with these challenges, the commons is an interesting approach, as it expe...
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Reducing inequality, a question of survival
In a world of limited planetary resources, the concentration of wealth is leading to growing division. Inequalities significantly hinder sustainable development. Since many different forms of inequal...
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Universalizing and accelerating electricity access over the next decade through Public Service Delegation (PSD...
Widely used in the water sector, which is also unprofitable in contexts similar to those prevailing in regions not yet electrified, the Public Service Delegation (PSD) offers a solid regulatory and fi...
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WWF and AFD, a technical and strategic partnership
AFD works with a diverse range of actors in the field, including French CSOs of international stature. AFD and WWF France have been partners for a long time, both through the financing of numerous pr...
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AFD and GLOBE to promote cultural and creative industries in Africa
AFD works with a diverse range of actors in the field, including small CSOs. AFD supports them in their financing but also in the development of their structuring. This is the case, for example, of t...
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Evaluation Highlights: In Tunisia, the emergence of a sustainable microfinance sector
Microcredit is a key tool in Tunisia for promoting the financial and economic inclusion of the most disadvantaged people, in both urban and rural areas. AFD Group has been working since 2011 to suppor...
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Developing regional networks for integrated health surveillance
Avian flu, Ebola, Chikungunya or Covid-19... These emerging diseases are coming from animals. Agence Française de Développement is promoting a new approach to health policies, to better acknowledge t...
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Climate: all migrants tomorrow?
A growing proportion of human societies are now threatened by climate change. In 2022 alone, 32 million people, for example, had to leave their homes, most often as part of internal and temporary migr...
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Modelling economy for a sustainable future with Devrim Yilmaz
Ecological transitions are a real revolution. They can have major effects - both positive and negative – on employment, imports and exports, financial stability, or public finances. They induce a glob...
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Final evaluation of the reinforcement of the transmission network project in Ethiopia (CET1047)
The project should contribute towards achievement of three overall objectives: - Enable an industrial development through the electricity supply to the industrial areas in South Addis Ababa. - Allo...
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How does AFD work with CSOs?
Over the past fifteen years, AFD has considerably broadened its methods of collaboration with CSOs, both in terms of financing projects and activities and in terms of producing knowledge or mobilizing...
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The Commons
The Commons explores the many forms of development being championed by Africa’s residents, users, and citizens. In addition to managing property and shared tangible and intangible resources collective...
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