AFD Digital Challenge, the competition for innovation in Africa
The AFD Digital Challenge organized every year by AFD identifies and promotes innovative projects submitted by African start-ups. These solutions contribute to Africa’s development and to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on the continent.
Modernizing and harmonizing national digital identification policy
Establishing a single digital identity is a fundamental component of development policies. It affects all areas of citizens’ lives, including access to goods, services and rights. In supporting the implementation of this initiative in Nigeria, the Identification for Development (ID4D) project...
A Representation of the World Population Dynamics for Integrated Assessments Models
Open Data for Resilient Agriculture - Hackathon Accra 2019
Inequalities in urban water services in La Paz and El Alto - Bolivia
Many young graduates with training in new technologies from higher institutes of technology (ISET) remain unemployed. The paradox is that companies within the sector are struggling to hire employees. The ELIFE project, sponsored by the Tunisia Foundation for Development (FTD) with support from...
Trends and Patterns of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Egypt
Reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions through sustainable urban mobility planning
AFD is working with three pilot cities in India to develop comprehensive urban mobility plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions via a grant delegated by the EU’s Asia Investment Facility.
Modelling Small Open Developing Economies in a Financialized World: A Stock-Flow Consistent Prototype Growth Model
Pacific Ocean - 2019-2023 Regional Strategy
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...
Sports and sustainable development – it’s a powerful combination taking flight in France and around the world. Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive Officer of Agence Française de Développement and Tony Estanguet, President of the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games,...
AFD new 1bn euro 5-year climate bond
AFD is supporting Djibouti Télécom’s participation in international consortiums for submarine telecom cables. Through its financing, AFD is contributing to the development and consolidation of the national public operator’s international activity in a highly competitive environment.
On the Zanzibar Archipelago, an ambitious pilot project aims to help coastal communities preserve natural resources while they make a living. Among them are aquaculture farmers specializing in seaweed production. It’s all part of the AquaCoCo project – Aquaculture, Coastal Communities and...