Mapping 500+ Development Banks
Financial performance and Corporate Governance: Evidence from National Development Banks in Africa
Role models and migration intentions
Last month, the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awarded to Russian and Filipino journalists Dmitri Mouratov and Maria Ressa for their courageous fight for freedom of expression. It’s the first ever Nobel award for journalism. Freedom of expression is a theme that AFD has been deeply involved in;...
Supporting the Civil Society Innovation Fund (CSIF)
This project supported by the Civil Society Innovation Fund aims at strengthening the diversification and innovation of Ethiopian civil so-ciety, to ensure a pluralistic and democratic organizational sphere, novel and creative civic activism and the defense of civic and associational rights of...
Support the Authority for the Civil Society Organizations (ACSO)
This project aims at assisting ACSO in its institutional and operational transformation process to implement the new civil society law and build its capacity.
Promoting peace: that’s the objective of this first Paris Peace Forum bringing together heads of state, local elected officials, international organizations, NGOs, and enterprises, from November 11 to 13. Here, Hélène N’Garnim-Ganga, Head of the Political and Citizenship Transition Department at...
With the Philippines spread across a chain of islands, government services are highly decentralized. But technical challenges and questions of jurisdiction remain. France is supporting the Philippines government in its development and implementation of reforms that enhance the autonomy of local...
Désiré Razafintsalama: «The Modernization of Madagascar’s Prison Administration Is Underway»
As part of a project to support the justice system in Madagascar, a delegation of five staff members from the Malagasy National Prison Administration Training School (École Nationale d’Administration Pénitentiaire – ENAP) visited the French ENAP from May 21-24.
Désiré Razafintsalama,...
Protracted armed conflict, chronic violence, post-conflict struggles: the road between urgent humanitarian aid and long-term development is invariably uphill. That’s why the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Agence Française de Développement have joined forces to improve...
The African Economy 2021
Using Artificial Intelligence to Assess Progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals
ChatGPT seems to be taking the world by storm. Typing a few words of instruction can prompt the chatbot to pen essays, ad campaigns or even film scripts. (A Hollywood blockbuster written by a robot is no longer the stuff of science-fiction.) But AI is already being used for important development...
AFD Chief Executive Officer Rémy Rioux's visit to Chisinau on 23 and 24 May marked the beginning of AFD Group's first initiatives in Moldova. They will focus on the country’s gradual convergence with European Union standards with an eye to joining the EU, the implementation of the...
Support for Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Côte d’Ivoire
Founded in 2010, the Palestine Public Finance Institute (PPFI) is responsible for supporting the tax administration’s efforts to collect taxes from civil society. This is a major challenge in a state that is still being built, where the majority of financial transactions still take place...
AFD is joining a whole new venture aimed at reconciling biodiversity conservation and local socioeconomic development in the Northern Congo forest basin. Through dialogue and partnerships, local people and village communities are going to be increasingly involved in forest management, through...
AFD’s new instrument to address crisis situations has been officially presented on this 13 June, but is already being deployed in the field. Its resources have been doubled. The Minka fund is financed by the Financial Transaction Tax and symbolizes our enhanced commitment to supporting peace and...