AFD has joined forces with Fondation Pierre Fabre to establish a comprehensive care center for female victims of violence in Bangui, Central African Republic. The partnership was forged at a Paris conference on November 28, 2019. Among those present was Doctor Denis Mukwege, gynecologist and...
AFD and State-Owned Enterprises
On Monday, AFD joins organizations and government representatives from all over the world for a summit in Madrid that puts oceans at the center of the fight against climate change. A wide range of topics will be tackled from 2 to 13 December at the Conference of the Parties – COP 25 - from...
An athlete dedicated to education
The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on October 29 marked the starting point of the GEMMES research program. In a country that is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, what are the expected...
For a decade, moves to preserve water resources have culminated in an important new development. On November 13, the “Water Banking and Adaptation of Agriculture to Climate Change in Gaza” project, with support from Agence Française de Développement, received support from the Green Climate Fund...
Reemerging diseases: New health challenges in Southeast Asia
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...
Agence Française de Développement’s Program for Energy Efficiency in Buildings supports emerging and developing countries in de-carbonizing their building sectors. It’s one of the little known building blocks for working towards peaceful societies, a topic tackled at the Paris Peace Forum on 11...
Just one item can change the lives of millions of women. That’s the message conveyed by Olivia Mvondo, co-founder of KmerPad, a Cameroonian company that makes sanitary pads with the support of Agence Française de Développement and FDEV (Investment Funds of Africa). The company won a prize this...
The 25th Conference of the Parties (COP 25) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will not be held in Chile after all, but in Madrid, Spain, from December 2 to 13. The big issues though, remain the same. Damien Navizet, Head of the Climate Change Division at Agence...
Marie-Noëlle WOILLEZ
Towards a Sustainable Belt and Road Initiative?
For the past six years, Agence Française de Développement has sponsored the Public’s Choice Award, one of the prizes of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents. On October 12, photojournalist Patrick Chauvel won the prize for his striking images, taken during the siege of...