Research

To coincide with the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, from January 1 to June 30, 2022, AFD Group is publishing an interview each month with an EU specialist in development issues.

This month, we meet with Jean-Marc Châtaigner, Ambassador of the European Union to the...

Digital technology is playing an increasingly prominent role in Africa’s economic development. In fact, more tech companies are developing across the continent than in the rest of the world. In the approach to the VivaTech technology and start-up event in Paris from June 14 to 17, we interview...

Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been treating victims of sexual violence under the direction of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Denis Mukwege since 1999. Some 55,000 people – mainly women and children – have sought care at the hospital after falling victim to rape...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to half of Africa’s water reserves, but only a quarter of the DRC’s population has access to affordable drinking water. Deteriorating infrastructure has contaminated the water, causing diseases such as typhoid fever, amoebic dysentery and cholera. An...

The concept of sustainable forest management emerged at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992. It entails the conservation and enhancement, for the welfare of present and future generations, of the economic, social and ecological benefits of forests. In Congo Basin countries, This is being...

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...

At the heart of the African continent, Central Africa is a diverse area that is loosely and unevenly integrated regionally and marked by contradictory dynamics and tensions which can weaken cohesion, whereas several countries in the region face common challenges. Established in Douala,...

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.

Organized by the urban cultural hub "La Friche la Belle de Mai" and AFD Campus, the international symposium on “Cultural Third Spaces, Towards New Means of Cooperation between Africa and France” will be held in Marseille on 17 May 2022. The objective is to pool ideas and analyze the...

To contain the expansion of industrial fishing, the port of Pointe-Noire, in the south of the Republic of the Congo, has launched a development programme supported by AFD and the European Union. Its goal is to achieve more sustainable resource management to everyone's benefit.

For the past several years, the PILAEP project has backed the instalment of standpipes to facilitate access to drinking water in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's greater Kinshasa area. A project evaluation indicates that while considerable progress has been made, there is still work...

Based in Kinshasa, AFD's DRC office is attached to the Central Africa Regional Division.

On November 12, 2019, France and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a new Debt Reduction-Development Contract (C2D) under the auspices of their respective leaders. This innovative debt restructuring mechanism is used to consolidate and pursue multiple high-priority development projects....

CICLIA is a facility funded by the EU, SECO and AFD that supports more than 35 cities in sub-Saharan Africa in the preparation of low-carbon and resilient urban strategies and projects. CICLIA funded the feasibility studies for the To Petola project. The project aims to strengthen the urban...

Maïtena Master 2 is a two-year master’s degree program created through a partnership between Université Senghor (Université de la Francophonie) and Campus AFD. The program provides capacity building for managers in African countries who work on development project management, be it in the public...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to much of the world's second largest tropical forest. But slash-and-burn farming practices and the use of energy woods expose this forest to a significant risk of deforestation and degradation. The urgent need is therefore to curb these practices...

Around 2.4 billion cases of diarrhoeal disease were recorded globally in 2015, causing approximately 500,000 deaths among children under five. Over 60% of these deaths were attributed to poor access to water and sani-tation. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease which, if left untreated, can...

As part of the Debt Reduction and Development Contract (C2D) signed between France and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), AFD granted in May 2014 a grant of €18 million to finance the project for the Promotion of Innovative methods for access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in...