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Energy Transition - 2021 Activity Report
After a year marked by the health crisis and a decline in activity in 2020, AFD Group has returned to a level of commitments in the energy sector on par with previous years. In 2021, €2.2 billion of f...
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Middle East - 2020-2030 Regional Strategy
The Middle East Strategy identifies AFD Group’s main strategic priorities for the Middle East, the methodological tools for addressing the challenges common to all of the countries in which AFD operat...
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Reviving agricultural advisory and extension services in sub-Saharan Africa
The Inter-réseaux Développement rural – IRAM – Ambre conseil/CERFRANCE – CIRAD group was mobilised by the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement, or “AFD”) in order to spark disc...
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Financing climate action
The climate is today the marker of the identity of AFD Group. In 2018, this already strong orientation has been strengthened with a new climate strategy (2017-2022), which reflects AFD’s ambition to f...
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The Challenges of Energy Transition in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Agence française de développement (AFD), Global Development Network (GDN), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), École française d’Extrême-O...
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The Governance of Climate Change in Developing Countries - A Report on International and Domestic Climate Chan...
Climate change has become the most important global issue of our time and now occupies a key place on the global governance agenda. Recent attempts to create a concrete framework for mitigation have f...
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Social Differentiation and Inequalities - Methodological and Cross-cutting Approaches to Questions of Gender a...
The Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Nantes University, the École française d’Extrême-Ori...
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Student Loans: Liquidity Constraint and Higher Education in South Africa
Although primary education is almost universal in South Africa, and secondary schooling has very wide outreach, higher education has become a severe problem in this emerging country. Enrollment stands...
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Redesigning Electricity Subsidies for Distributed Generation in Mexico: A Fair Transition Model Applied to Nue...
Mexico is faced with a dual energy challenge: to move forward in a transition towards clean sources while meeting the immediate nearshoring demands, calling for a reliable electricity infrastructure....
Potential sources of income inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries
This paper examines income inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) region, using recent harmonized household survey data across eight member countries. The study explores...
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Nigeria: Women of big dreams
AFD in Nigeria has always put gender at the center of its projects and reflections. In 2019, AFD’s communication department in Abuja decided to commission a movie on the emancipation of women in the c...
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Exchange rate and balance of payment risks in the global development finance architecture
The authors analyze the exchange rate and balance of payment crisis risks when MDBs lend, in hard currency, to NDBs, for NDBs to onlend to investment projects. Investment projects maybe “export-enhanc...
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Finance in Common: The first global summit of all Public Development Banks
The Finance in Common Summit, taking place during the Paris Peace Forum in November 2020, will address our common need to build new forms of prosperity that take care of the living (people and planet)...
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Vulnerabilities to crises and resilience - 2017-2021 Strategy
AFD’s motto, « A word in common », illustrates the interdependence of women and men who share the same space and destiny. Crises – whether relating to security, politics, health, food, economics, soci...
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Research Conversations replay: A strategic framework for Nature-Based solutions in urban areas
This webinar is part of the conference series 'Research Conversations'.
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Research Conversations replay: Middle Classes : A socioeconomic exploration of Ghana and Argentina
This webinar is part of the conference series 'Research Conversations'.
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Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use Change on Flood Flow in the Ca River Basin (Vietnam)
The Ca River Basin, one of the largest transboundary basins in Viet Nam, located in the North Central region, regularly faces large flood events causing great damage to people’s lives and livelihoods....
Annual Review: JEFIC in 2023
JEFIC – Joint European Financiers for International Cooperation – is a network of European bilateral banks and financial institutions which collaborate with public sector partners in developing countr...
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JEFIC - AECID, AFD, BGK, CDP AND KFW TOGETHER IN TEAM EUROPE FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION
JEFIC – Joint European Financiers for International Cooperation – is a network of European bilateral banks and financial institutions which collaborate with public sector partners in developing countr...
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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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Water and Sanitation: 2021 Activity Report
Water is central to the balance of ecosystems and societies and an essential factor for biodiversity, food security, health, gender equality – and even peace. Water resources are under pressure fro...
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