Research

More than 3 billion people live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change (IPCC, 2022). Yet, adapting to the impacts of climate change remains a complex process: multiple sectors as well as a wide range of social,...

AFD has supported the Agro-ecological Transition in Cotton Areas Project (Tazco) run by the Government of Benin since 2017, with the aim of preserving natural ecosystems and enabling cotton producers to maintain their standard of living,

AFD joins forces with FIFA and Plan International to promote women's football in schools in order to build the capacity of young girls to become agents of change in their communities in vulnerable areas of three countries – Benin, Guinea and Togo.

The current development of African education systems focuses on the perspective of universal completion of six years of schooling. This perspective, targeted by the international community for the year 2015 (Dakar declaration, Millennium Development Goals), will no doubt be reached by a number of...

AFD has placed the implementation of the Paris Agreement at the heart of its mandate. A commitment that accompanies our actions in our different countries of intervention. Particularly in the Gulf of Guinea, we are targeting the strengthening of State action, adaptation to the effects of...

By helping to finance a photovoltaic power plant, AFD supports Benin in the development and diversification of its electricity production. The modernization of the national electricity operator's IT system optimizes its performance and customer service quality.

AFD and the Basketball Africa League (BAL) are financing the production of a mini-series about 20 young Africans in an academy that combines playing basketball with sustainable development projects.

In Africa, making the digital transition is one of the challenges facing emerging and developing cities. To achieve this objective, AFD is supporting 12 African cities with technical assistance. In the African Smart Towns Network (ASToN), they are developing digital practices together to create...

African incubators and innovative companies are experiencing structural difficulties in accessing financing. AFD is addressing them by supporting the Afric’innov program. This will create new jobs and help build a network of incubators.

The aim of this study is to better understand, from the information collected on missions undertaken in Senegal, Benin, Ghana, Mozambique, and Brazil, the scope and methods of Chinese and Brazilian cooperation interventions in western and southern Africa’s agricultural sector.

In the coming decades, West African countries could benefit from a “demographic window of opportunity” in order to reduce their poverty. The entry of 160 million young people into the labor market between 2010 and 2030 can accelerate economic growth. However, these countries will only benefit...

To celebrate more than six decades of action in Bénin, AFD in Cotonou organized a large photo exhibit in November. These images tell part of the story of those devoted to improving the lives of Bénin's men, women and children, in work that ranges from daily challenges to long-lasting human...

AFD is financing the construction of a museum and the development of the Royal Palaces of Abomey site.

CICLIA is a facility funded by the European Union, SECO and AFD that supports more than 30 cities in sub-Saharan Africa in the preparation of low-carbon and resilient urban strategies and projects. Ganvié,...

Based in Cotonou, AFD's Benin office is attached to the Gulf of Guinea Regional Division.

This report is part of a study carried out by the AFD Research Department on vocational training in the informal sector in seven African countries, which are, in alphabetical order, South Africa, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Morocco and Senegal.

It is now a widely recognised fact in the economic literature that the level of per capita income and the degree of sectoral concentration of economic activity evolve together over the long term. The empirical research of Imbs and Wacziarg (2003) has notably shown that production diversification...

In Benin, the government has made secondary education a priority. AFD has been contributing to these efforts since 2017 by supporting the Benin Secondary Education Support Project (PAESB). Here, we take a look at a program that puts students at the heart of the country’s governance.

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This paper investigates the impact of regional migration on average wages and wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit a unique data from a unified labour force household survey which covers natives and migrants in the seven economic capitals of the...