Publications and media
Infographic – Our Activity in Favor of Gender Equality in 2022
Often the cause of injustice and factors in poverty, gender inequalities hold back the sustainable development of societies, politically, economically and socially. That’s why AFD mainstreams...
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Counter-cyclical Responses: How Development Banks helped the Covid-19 Recovery, and Lessons for the Future
The objective of this paper is to shed light on the crucial and varied counter-cyclical roles played by development banks across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic, and lessons learned for future...
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Infographic- Our Activity in Support of the Cultural and Creative Industries in 2022
The cultural and creative industries help to strengthen social ties and advance development priorities such as education, gender equality, citizenship and governance. Culture is a common good, an...
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Cultural and Creative Industries – 2022 Activity Report
The United Nations 2030 Agenda recognizes culture as a transversal theme and tool of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Improved access to culture and greater participation in cultural life ind...
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Gender Equality – 2022 Activity Report
Since 2020, AFD has asserted its position as a committed actor in the international ecosystem on gender. Having forged strategic partnerships with the United Nations and multilateral and bilateral ban...
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Corporate Social Responsibility & Activity Report 2023
AFD Group presents a “100% SDG” corporate social responsibility and activity report. The 2023 edition concretely reflects the alignment of the Group’s activities with the Sustainable Development Goals...
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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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Climate - 2022 Activity Report
Climate and development are two tightly bound emergencies and the fight against climate change is a priority for AFD Group. The first development bank to commit to aligning its finance with the Paris...
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Summit for a New Global Financing Pact: Increasing Investment in Sustainable Infrastructure in Emerging and De...
How can financing for sustainable infrastructure in emerging and developing countries be increased? In the run-up to the summit for a New Global Financial Pact, representatives of some sixty public an...
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Infographic – Our Activity to Support Civil Society Organizations in 2022
In 2022, civil society organizations once again mobilized to address the needs of people in many fields of action. With 465 million euros and nearly 300 CSOs assisted in 2022, AFD Group reinforced...
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Support for Civil Society Organizations – 2022 Activity Report
The year 2022 was marked by multiple crises, which have widened inequalities and often worsened living conditions in AFD Group's countries of operation. Civil society organizations (CSOs) once again t...
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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...
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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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“Multiple, polarized and vulnerable”: A socio-economic exploration of Ghana’s middle class
By using mixed quantitative-qualitative methods combining micro-data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey 2016-2017 (GLSS7) and original qualitative data collected from semi-structured interviews in...
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AFD Group’s 2022 Results : The Essentials
For its first year of existence in an expanded format, the AFD Group has met its objectives in 2022. With Proparco, its subsidiary dedicated to the private sector, and now Expertise France, France's i...
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Inequality Mapping: A Research Facility to Better Understand Inequalities
This report presents the findings of the project “Mapping of inequalities reducing initiatives” among European countries, conducted at the initiative of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities (I...
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Research Conversations replay: Nature-related risks in South Africa
This webinar is part of the conference series 'Research Conversations'.
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Vulnerability of Ghana’s Coast to Relative Sea-level Rise: A Scoping Review
Coastal areas are regions of essential value that are home to a myriad of services. However, population growth and climate change along with their cascading impacts have had profound impacts on their...
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A scoping study on coastal vulnerability to relative sealevel rise in the Gulf of Guinea
The Gulf of Guinea's low-lying soft coastline is highly vulnerable to coastal erosion and relative sea-level rise (rSLR). Large capital cities and core economic activities are concentrated along the c...
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A scoping review of the vulnerability of Nigeria's coastland to sea-level rise and the contribution of land su...
Nigeria’s low-lying coastal region, with its various economic activities, is vulnerable to global sea-level rise triggered by climate change. In some areas, this threat can be amplified by land subsid...
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