Digital Tools to Attract Rural Youth to Agricultural Professions
The JINOV project enhances the appeal of the farming profession. It promotes information sharing and exchange between young rural people on social networks while facilitating access to training, information and agricultural advice.
To what extent is it possible to achieve biodiversity conservation objectives while meeting the socioeconomic development needs of local communities? While the concomitant achievement of both objectives is a central concern for the CBD – which will once again be discussed at the next Conference...
This week’s UN Climate Change Conference highlights important moves to bring together two different issues: climate and biodiversity. From Madrid at the Cop 25, Gilles Kleitz, Director of AFD’s Department of Ecological Transitions and Natural Resources, explains how they're linked and what...
Morocco is reflecting on its development model with a view to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Mounssif Aderkaoui, Director of Studies at the Ministry for the Economy and Finance of the Kingdom of Morocco, sets out some of the central themes of the dialogue with AFD, from the...
COP25: Reasons for Hope?
The Democratic Republic of Congo lost more forest cover last year than any other country in the world except for Brazil. It’s the continuation of more than a decade of forest loss, mainly due to slash and burn agriculture. On 26 November, AFD signed an agreement with the Congolese Government to...
AFD and the blue economy in Indonesia
Developing Solar Energy Production and Modernizing the Electricity Operator's IT System
By helping to finance a photovoltaic power plant, AFD supports Benin in the development and diversification of its electricity production. The modernization of the national electricity operator's IT system optimizes its performance and customer service quality.
AFD Group: Driver for African Start-Ups
Evaluators are unanimous: it is difficult to establish a baseline, then monitor changes in biodiversity in order to assess the results and impacts of an intervention. How can digital technology help provide solutions?
According to Claire Zanuso, Research and Evaluation Officer at AFD, and...
Evaluation Through Writing and Images
Financing TVET: a comparative analysis in six Asian countries - Korean Case Study
Promoting renewable energy and climate investments through a green credit line to PT SMI, a key public financial institution of Indonesia
AFD has partnered with PT SMI, the Indonesian state-owned Infrastructure Finance Company, to support credits dedicated to renewable energy, water and sanitation, public transport and any other climate and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) related investments.
Strengthening climate and weather service capacity – Marine meteorology system (MMS)
AFD is supporting Indonesia in the development of marine meteorology systems in partnership with BMKG (Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency) which implements the project.
Getting to Net-Zero Emissions: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
In 2012, AFD launched a call for NGO projects on “Biodiversity and Development: sharing biodiversity benefits to help village communities”. Funded by the Sectoral Innovation Facility for Non-governmental Organisations (FISONG), the call for projects aimed to promote specific know-how and NGO...