Publications and media
Gender Equality - 2021 Activity Report
In 2021, AFD managed, financed and participated in projects that contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 5, dedicated to gender...
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Impact Evaluation - A Map of Uses
The best form of impact evaluation is that which is useful to AFD and its partners. Various types of methodological approaches can be used depending on the contexts and the issues at stake. This im...
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Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development
The idea for this collective volume was born in the summer of 2018, with the desire to foster a scientific controversy about a method whose influence was growing and, in our opinion, remained insuffic...
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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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Multidimensional diagnostic on inequalities in Colombia
Thanks to the wealth and progress of official information in Colombia, mainly from household surveys with sufficient population representativeness, the AFD, together with the European Union, and in cl...
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Designing the Collective Intelligence Commons
The digital commons – including thousands of standards and tools for open hardware, data, software and content – play a vital role in the development of many of the world’s most impactful collective i...
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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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Human Rights and Development: The Rights of Youth
AFD is developing a series of factsheets entitled "Human Rights and Development". In addition to providing information and promoting human rights, the sheets are tools to help development actors integ...
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Official Development Assistance at the Age of Consequences
Official Development Assistance (ODA) was introduced in the 1960s as a temporary instrument to respond to a phase in world history involving decolonization, the Cold War, industrialization and flagran...
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Biodiversity in Cities - Technical Guide
In order to respond to the challenges and growing demand of counterparts, partners and populations to better integrate nature in cities, AFD Group has developed this technical guide "Biodiversity in C...
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Effect of typhoons on economic activities in Vietnam: Evidence using satellite imagery
This paper investigates the effect of typhoons on economic activities in Vietnam. During the period covered by our analysis, 1992-2013, we observed 63 typhoons affecting different locations of the cou...
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Employment in a zero net emissions future in Costa Rica: Renewable energy to enable widespread benefits for th...
In pursuit of a "3D" economy (decentralized, digitized and decarbonized), Costa Rica is encouraging transformations to work towards the year 2050 through its National Decarbonization Plan&nb...
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AFD Group Ethics Charter
AFD Group has a Professional Ethics Charter which sets out the mission, values and commitments that guide its positions and modes of action. A public document, the Ethics Charter outlines th...
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2021 Sustainable Development Goals Bond Reporting
In 2020, in order to ensure the consistency of AFD Group's 100% Paris Agreement commitments and 100% Social Link commitments with its presence on the markets, AFD created a bond framework aligned with...
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The Proof is in the Pudding. Revealing the SDGs with Artificial Intelligence
The use of frontier technologies in the field of sustainability is likely to accompany its visibility, and the quality of information available to decision makers. This paper explores the possibility...
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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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Vietnam -2021-2025 Strategy
Even though Vietnam was one of the world’s poorest countries in the mid-1980s, it achieved LMIC status in 2010. Vietnam has initiated its transition to a low-carbon trajectory, but remains economicall...
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2022 Activity and Corporate Social Responsibility Report
AFD Group releases its Activity and Social Responsibility Report (RARES), which reports on its contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2022 edition of the...
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Development finance fragmentation and diversification: the case of China, India and Türkiye
From 2010 to 2019, the international community committed USD 1,700 billion in loans for developing countries. While multila-teral development banks continued to provide the bulk of financings (60% of...
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Replay: MacroDev Online Webinar on the Commodity Prices Boom
The outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict at the end of February 2022 had the almost immediate consequence of a surge in the world prices of raw materials, such as gas, oil, aluminum or wheat. &n...
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How does fertility affect female employment? Evidence from Albania
This article inspects the relationship between fertility and employment, providing an explanatory mixed-methods analysis to gauge their nexus for rural and urban Albania over the 2000s. Instrumenting...
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