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Based in Maputo, AFD's Mozambique office is attached to the Southern Africa Regional Division.

This project is part of the "Maputo Water Supply Project" (MWSP) expansion, aimed at securing production by upgrading and expanding the water network and reduce losses.

Maputo’s International Airport is critical for the country's economic development. The project aims at improving the airport's management standards.

AFD supports the NGO Douleurs Sans Frontières in setting up a pilot process for the follow up of patients for better pain management and improved palliative care. The project focuses on home-based patients in Chibuto, Xai-Xai and Massingir districts.

Present in the country since 1981, AFD is a long-term partner of Mozambique. For nearly 40 years, AFD has continuously supported the country in its efforts to improve basic infrastructure, preserve biodiversity, and ensure citizens’ access to basic services.

Like many other Protected Areas in the country, the Gilé National Reserve has suffered greatly from 25 years of conflict, war of independence and civil war. She was also very affected by the recurrent lack of human and financial resources during the post-war period. Today, it continues to face...

Dona Mena is a cashew producer in the Gilé reserve in Mozambique. AFD is funding a project there which aims to contribute to strengthening the cashew nut sector in order to allow a sustainable improvement of farmers' incomes while preserving natural resources. ©AFD2020

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...

Southern Africa has a rich natural heritage of global significance to the world’s climate and biological diversity. Unfortunately, the capacity of nature to maintain this biological wealth is rapidly diminishing due to habitat loss and degradation resulting from unsustainable development,...

The collaboration between AFD and Team Europe in Southern Africa allows us the opportunity to increase our reach, impact and visibility in the region. The EU Partnership with the AFD Group allows us as a collective to concretize our actions and allows...

AFD is supporting the technical partnership between Electricité de France (EDF) and Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) to improve emergency management and reduce power grid failures in the country's southern zone.

In Mozambique, AFD and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) are banking on education. The country inherited a deteriorated education system because of the civil war. In 1992, one child in two was not going to school and only 3% of youth could reach secondary school. In Mozambique, AKDN allows...

A project that aims to improve the skills of doctors, nurses and other medical staff in the area of anaesthesia and intensive care.

The project aims to contribute to the rehabilitation and upgrade of the vocational training system of the public energy company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM). The project will also fully revise EDM's training offering to meet new industry requirements and EDM's development...

Filmed evaluation is a way of disseminating evaluation results to a wider audience. A written and filmed evaluation of Limpopo National Park (LNP) was carried out in Mozambique in 2016 by AFD.

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...

AFD is supporting FIPAG, a fund for the water supply service for Mozambique's largest cities, with its emergency program to strengthen the drinking water supply to the Greater Maputo Region, through the use of groundwater (drilling equipment, pipe laying, construction of a pumping station)...

A loan aimed at refinancing MOTRACO’S investment in South Africa's energy transmission line to Swaziland and Mozambique.