Research

The second edition of the Tahiti Women’s Forum, organized in Papeete in mid-October, focused on the corporate and social responsibility of women entrepreneurs and business leaders. This awareness-raising is essential among women entrepreneurs, who are growing in number in the economic landscape...

The Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN) is strengthening its surveillance and response capacity to combat epidemic diseases in the region.

With island states at grave risk of being submerged by rising waters, it has never been more important to educate young people on the pleasures and perils of the sea, and on the need to find ways to adapt to climate change. In an initiative backed by France, teachers and experts are using...

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...

AFD and the Polynesian authorities have jointly defined a support program to assist French Polynesia with its energy transition. By 2030, the renewable energy penetration rate in power generation will reach about 75%.

Bridging digital divides is one of AFD’s priorities. In French Polynesia, the Natitua project is connecting 20 Marquesas and Tuamotu islands to broadband using submarine cables and radio beams. This connectivity is essential for the economic and social development of these isolated archipelagos...

Studying the Polynesian lagoons to better understand the idea of the commons so dear to the late Nobel prize-winning economist, Elinor Ostrom…This lies at the center of a fascinating book by Tamatoa Bambridge, François Gaulme, Christian Montet and Thierry Paulais.
Paulais, Director of AFD...

The 0% rate green loan to the public sector, known as PSP Vert, aims to combat climate change and is now available to all French Overseas Territories. It had previously been deployed in the Pacific with AFD's support. Below is a review of one year's worth of loans to protect the...

Arue, a commune in the northwest of the island of Tahiti, is continuing the renovation of its water distribution network and investing in resilience via large-scale roadwork. AFD will be supporting it on this path, via two new financing agreements.

More largely, in the context of the fight against climate change, the subject of renewable energies takes on considerable importance. A large number of island States in the Pacific zone are extremely dependent on fossil fuels, and in the coming years, will face major impacts related to climate...

AFD is providing emergency funding to help 12 Pacific island countries and territories monitor and respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. The support will also boost the region’s ability to cope with other health crises and emerging diseases, like dengue fever.

Based in Papeete, AFD's French Polynesia office is attached to the Pacific Ocean Regional Division.

Around 20 Pacific islands suffering from climate change and biodiversity erosion are going to receive financial support from AFD and its partners. This support will help them carry out projects to conserve nature and adapt to climate events.

The Kiwa Initiative aims to strengthen the climate change resilience of Pacific Island ecosystems, communities and economies through Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). Launched by AFD in 2020, the initiative is the product of a unique commitment driven by France and the European Union, with Canada,...

Emmanuel Macron made a landmark visit to Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea in July, the first by a French President since Charles de Gaulle. The visit comes as climate change poses enormous risks for countries, communities and islands across a region seen as a laboratory for solutions to the...

The RESCCUE project, implemented by the Pacific Community (SPC), aims to fight against the impacts of climate change. How? By increasing the resilience of the terrestrial and marine ecosystems of the Pacific Small Island Developing States and developing financial mechanisms able to sustainably...

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 watersheds by supporting cooperation projects with neighboring states. Measure...