Pioneering Treatment for Sexual Violence in the Congo - and Applying the lessons Worldwide
Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been treating victims of sexual violence under the direction of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Denis Mukwege since 1999. Some 55,000 people – mainly women and children – have sought care at the hospital after falling victim to rape...
To coincide with the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, from January 1 to June 30, 2022, AFD Group is publishing an interview each month with an EU specialist in development issues.
This month, we meet with Jean-Marc Châtaigner, Ambassador of the European Union to the...
Digital technology is playing an increasingly prominent role in Africa’s economic development. In fact, more tech companies are developing across the continent than in the rest of the world. In the approach to the VivaTech technology and start-up event in Paris from June 14 to 17, we interview...
Developing Lower Secondary Education: a Rural Issue and Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa
The forest sector in countries of the Congo Basin: 20 years of AFD Intervention
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to half of Africa’s water reserves, but only a quarter of the DRC’s population has access to affordable drinking water. Deteriorating infrastructure has contaminated the water, causing diseases such as typhoid fever, amoebic dysentery and cholera. An...
Central Africa - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy
Organized by the urban cultural hub "La Friche la Belle de Mai" and AFD Campus, the international symposium on “Cultural Third Spaces, Towards New Means of Cooperation between Africa and France” will be held in Marseille on 17 May 2022. The objective is to pool ideas and analyze the...
Pointe-Noire: The Port Begins Its Metamorphosis With A View To Preserving Traditional Fishing
To contain the expansion of industrial fishing, the port of Pointe-Noire, in the south of the Republic of the Congo, has launched a development programme supported by AFD and the European Union. Its goal is to achieve more sustainable resource management to everyone's benefit.
Alley-oop Africa: Educating and raising the awareness of young people on sustainable development issues through sports and the use of media tools
AFD and the Basketball Africa League (BAL) are financing the production of a mini-series about 20 young Africans in an academy that combines playing basketball with sustainable development projects.
CIPASTI project - An academia partnership in industrial engineering
Train technicians and engineers in industrial engineering – this is the ambition of the CIPASTI project, which was selected for the second edition of the “Academia Partnerships Africa-France” programme. Led by the Université Loyola du Congo and the Institut catholique des arts et métiers, it...
For the past several years, the PILAEP project has backed the instalment of standpipes to facilitate access to drinking water in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's greater Kinshasa area. A project evaluation indicates that while considerable progress has been made, there is still work...
Based in Kinshasa, AFD's DRC office is attached to the Central Africa Regional Division.
Public policies, private higher education development and inequalities
The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to much of the world's second largest tropical forest. But slash-and-burn farming practices and the use of energy woods expose this forest to a significant risk of deforestation and degradation. The urgent need is therefore to curb these practices...
Maïtena Master 2 is a two-year master’s degree program created through a partnership between Université Senghor (Université de la Francophonie) and Campus AFD. The program provides capacity building for managers in African countries who work on development project management, be it in the public...
On November 12, 2019, France and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a new Debt Reduction-Development Contract (C2D) under the auspices of their respective leaders. This innovative debt restructuring mechanism is used to consolidate and pursue multiple high-priority development projects....
Continuous water supply: a decisive factor in the fight against cholera
The streets of Kinsasha, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are rich with the works of a number of young artists. Agence Française de Développement is currently spotlighting several of them via an exhibit at its head office. Géraldine Tobé, Michel Eka, Widjo Wiyombo and others all accepted...