Publications and media
AFD, the Choice of Feminist Development
Women are discriminated against in all areas: employment, education, health and governance. Gender inequality causes both injustice and poverty, and hinders both economic and social development. The...
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How to improve food security?
According to the World Food Programme, the number of people facing acute food insecurity has more than doubled since 2019, from 135 million to 345 million around the world. The food crisis has multipl...
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AFD Group and Angola
In Angola, AFD Group supports the sustainable development priorities of its local partners, by financing improved access to water and electricity for all. AFD also supports economic and financial tran...
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AFD Group and the Gambia
The Republic of the Gambia is the smallest country of continental Africa and one of the priority countries for French development assistance. The country carries a heavy public debt as well as many ch...
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AFD and Agriculture in Angola
Angola’s agricultural potential is considered to be the greatest in Southern Africa, thanks to considerable water resources, a favorable climate and a large amount of available arable land. Neverthele...
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The African Economy in 2023
This fourth edition of “African Economies,” has been produced by AFD in an age of consequences, an age experiencing a combination of protracted crises whose effects are immediate, an age with both cli...
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The African Economy 2022
This issue of L’Économie africaine has been created by Éditions La Découverte and the Agence française de développement (AFD) (French Development Agency), who are continuing their collaboration for th...
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UPFI: a successful partnership to support territorial development
Placed under the aegis of the Union for the Mediterranean in 2011,the Urban Projects Finance Initiative (UPFI) is the result of a partnership between the European Union, the French Development Agency...
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Final Evaluation of the ‘Liberia Employment and Entrepreneurship Programme’ (LEEP) (CLR1009)
The goal of LEEP was to enable 11,000 Liberian youth, both male and female, aged 18-35 years to find meaningful, market-driven employment or self-employment. It had three interlinked and mutually rein...
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ARPEJ, an initiative for youth employment in Africa
In the current post-Covid-19 context and global economic crisis, young people, particularly in Africa, are facing increasing difficulties in training and access to employment. To address this urgent n...
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History of evaluation : Conservation Trust Funds
As the pressure on natural environments continues to increase, mobilising funding for biodiversity conservation is a major challenge. In this context, Conservation Trust Funds are important tools for...
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Biodiversity and financial instability with Julien Calas
The collapse of biodiversity threatens the financial system because there are two types of crisis: the physical crisis and the transition crisis. Whatever the type of crisis, if the problem becomes wi...
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Delivering public interest goods in Africa. Stopgap measures, state reform, and commons
Given the polysemy of the concept of “commons,” we use the concept of “public interest goods,” the content of which varies according to historical situations. In Africa, different institutions (modes...
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A “shared earth” approach to put biodiversity at the heart of the sustainable development in Africa
Biodiversity is a classic example of a global commons. As we enter the coming decades of a rapidly changing climate, declining biodiversity, growing human populations and economic growth, sub-Saharan...
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Private production or public project ownership to scale up the construction of photovoltaic power plants in Af...
Despite its abundant solar resources, Africa currently has low solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation capacities compared to other continents. Yet, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)...
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Evaluation Summary - AFD’s interventions in the perennial crops sector: rubber outgrowerplantations projects p...
The overall objectives of ROPP IV and V (CGH1094-CGH1124) are: to help achieve a lasting reduction of rural poverty; to contribute to increasing export revenue; to contribute to mitigate cli...
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What can we expect from COP27?
Signatory states to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change are meeting from 6 to 18 November 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27th edition of the Conference of Parties. The s...
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Strong sustainability: reconciling environmental, social and economic objectives
How can we ensure a just and truly sustainable ecological transition that does not pre-empt the development of the poorest countries? AFD is proposing a new approach to the construction of development...
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Improving the daily lives of Namibians with microfinance
In Namibia, in collaboration with the local post office NamPost and its microfinance subsidiary Postfin, the Agence française de développement supports retirees’ access to financial services, while pr...
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Evaluation Summary - « Access to finance » component of the SASME project, Egypt
The overall objective of the SASME Project (CEG1046) was to support the efforts of the Government of Egypt to create job opportunities and income generation in rural areas and develop the agricultural...
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Greening China’s investments in Africa: issues and challenges
The 8th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which was held in Dakar in November 2021, strengthened the pillars of a “new era” of China-Africa cooperation in various fields, including energy, wh...
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