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Mapping to Transform National Research Systems as the Horizon of Action
The collaboration between the Global Development Network (GDN) and Expertise France (EF) as part of the Savoirs Eco project (2023– 2026), funded by the European Union, is based on the principle that s...
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يستند التعاون بين الشبكة العالمية للتنمية (GDN) ووكالة الخبرة الفرنسية (EF)، في إطار مشروع «سَواهر إيكو» (Savoirs Eco) للفترة 2023–2026، المموَّل من الاتحاد الأوروبي، إلى مبدأ مفاده أن دعم منظومة أبحا...
Clean cooking in Africa: an urgent priority for health and climate
Nearly 80% of households in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to modern cooking solutions. Continued reliance on traditional fuels, such as wood and charcoal, poses major challenges for human devel...
How is beekeeping boosting women's incomes in Zimbabwe?
Hands-on training in Matabeleland North, Mashonaland East and Manicaland provinces helped beekeepers strengthen their technical skills and improve the quality and productivity of their operations.
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Why is development essential in conflict zones?
Faced with wars, natural or health disasters, and population displacements, emergency humanitarian action is essential.
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Assessment of future flood inundation under the impacts of climate change and human activities in Central Viet...
This study evaluates the combined impacts of climate change and reservoir operations on flood dynamics in the Vu Gia Thu Bon River Basin, one of Vietnam’s most flood-prone regions. The analysis employ...
How is Ethiopia transforming its electricity and digital networks?
The RISED project (Renewable, Integrated, Sustainable Energy & Digitalisation) supports Ethiopia’s electricity-sector transformation through four pillars: grid modernisation and rehabilitation, digita...
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How Can Public Development Banks Support the Energy Transition of Territories?
Energy policies designed at the national level produce different effects across territories and often prove insufficiently adapted to the diversity of local socioeconomic and environmental contexts. E...
Transboundary Climate Risks: A Cross-Regional Analysis
Prevailing approaches to climate adaptation still tend to focus on managing impacts within local or national borders. Yet climate change impacts do not stop at national boundaries: they propagate acro...
How AFD Group supports closer ties with the EU
War in Ukraine, shifting alliances, the emergence of new spheres of influence… The European neighborhood is at the heart of intense geopolitical competition. Yet amid this turbulence, a major shift is...
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Mobility and transport: Activity report 2025
In 2025, AFD Group consolidated its commitment to sustainable, inclusive, safe, efficient, and low-carbon transport. Its work focused on urban mobility, national connectivity, and international transp...
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Digital technology: Activity report 2025
2025 was marked by growing risks of diverging development trajectories and heightened sovereignty concerns fueled by geopolitical divides. Against this backdrop, AFD Group stepped up its efforts to p...
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Accelerating Infrastructure Development: an investment priority
Infrastructure can range from hydroelectric power plants to solar mini-grids, large-scale urban metro projects to rural roads, and water treatment plants in big cities to water reserves in rural areas...
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Sustainability Statement 2025 - Summary
This document is a summary of the 2025 Sustainability Statement, published in June 2026. AFD Group has voluntarily published its first sustainability report, improving transparency and governance in a...
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Gender equality: Activity report 2025
In 2025, the renewal of France’s International Strategy for a Feminist Foreign Policy (2025-2030) reaffirmed the priority given to gender equality and the rights of women and girls. Building on this s...
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Investing in human capital as a strategic lever for sustainable development: Activity report 2025
In 2025, AFD once again made employment and vocational training central to its work, recognizing them as key drivers of sustainable investment that supports demographic, environmental, and digital tr...
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Conceptual Booklet - How - and how far - can we still adapt?
The "From Research to Action: Leveraging Results for Public Policy" conference series aims to demonstrate how research findings can be translated into concrete action to inform public policy, particul...
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The AFD Group offer for employment, training, education
Every year, millions of young people enter the labor market in economies where the supply of formal employment remains insufficient, fueling unemployment, job insecurity, and social vulnerability. The...
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AFD Group offer for financial systems
Stability, inclusion, sustainability: the transformation of financial systems is underway. Financial systems play a vital role in supporting just and sustainable transitions and improving living condi...
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South Africa: Towards a Change of Course?
As South Africa faces major challenges—including chronic underinvestment, the inefficiency of state-owned enterprises, inadequate infrastructure, limited financial inclusion, persistently high unemplo...
Advancing Green Budget Tagging (GBT) in the Republic of Serbia
The Republic of Serbia is the first country in the Western Balkans to integrate Green Budget Tagging (GBT) into its budgetary process. As a public financial management tool, GBT enhances the alignment...
