Research

After supporting the creation of urban cable cars in Colombia and the Dominican Republic, Agence Française de Développement is backing the deployment of this type of transportation in Saint-Denis on Reunion Island. The first cable car line for an overseas province is scheduled to open in late...

Perhaps more than anything else, three things drive the economies of French overseas territories in helping them adopt a more sustainable model: energy transitions, agricultural reforms and sustainable socioeconomic development. All three are among the themes highlighted in the Sustainable...

Faced with increasingly competitive world tourism, the islands of the Indian Ocean are joining forces to become a common destination. The idea is to create a joint marketing banner, economies of scale and an inter-island travel offer based on ecotourism. The initiative is led by the association...

In recent years, AFD has significantly increased its support for healthcare in the French administrative department of Réunion. AFD comes to the aid of local healthcare stakeholders, hospitals, and non-profit organizations managing medico-social institutions that care for the dependent elderly...

In the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF), a brand new vessel is currently sailing through the sea ice between the scientific bases there. It is the new Astrolabe. The vessel, entirely funded by AFD, has the twofold mission of providing both transport and supplies to these isolated...

Initiated by the Indian Ocean Commission, the SEGA (Epidemic Surveillance and Alert Management) network is entering its third phase. The goal: a permanent regional mechanism to control the risk of epidemics in the south-western Indian Ocean.

Present in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, France has five departments and regions and seven overseas collectivities which are home to 2.7 million French citizens. Scattered across the globe, the overseas territories concentrate 97% of France’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) – the second...

Based in Saint-Denis, the Indian Ocean Regional Division covers six countries in the region: Réunion, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Mayotte and French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF)

To protect the youth most at-risk, the French Red Cross has just renovated its historical youth shelter on Reunion Island, with support from AFD. The shelter, which is located in a beach resort area, is slated to reopen in December.

The first-ever international summit on glaciers and the poles, held in Paris this month, shed light on the role played by the planet’s extreme regions in regulating the climate and preserving biodiversity. From the Tropics to the Antarctic, we take a closer look at these remote areas, which are...

At the Interministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) on February 8, 2018, the government made a commitment to strengthen the integration of overseas territories into their regional ocean basins by supporting cooperation projects with neighboring states....