Minka Fund: a pioneering fund run by AFD and the French government to address questions of gender and gender-based violence in crisis zones.
In 2023, nearly 100% of Minka projects helped boost gender equality, and for 25% of projects, gender equality was their principal objective,...
This comparative study analyzes the student accommodation sectors in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, focusing on prevalent business models, benefits, challenges, and opportunities. The study reveals ten key takeaways, including high demand, diverse supply options, deficits in addressing...
92% of the SDG targets are rooted in the international corpus of human rights. In this context, the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs' human rights strategy calls for "support for human rights everywhere", and considers that human rights-based approach (HRBA) is applicable to all...
The project objective (CLA1081) was to fight poverty and increase agricultural production in the target villages of Bualapha district, Khammouane province, through:
The Nam Kata Irrigation System constructed and operational;
IImproved farming systems in the target villages...
The Minka Peace and Resilience Fund is AFD's peacebuilding tool dedicated to territories affected by crises or violent conflicts. Positioned on the humanitarian-...
Progress made in development is under threat from increasingly complex crises. To deal with this problem, Team France created a funding tool dedicated to peacebuilding: the Minka Peace and Resilience Fund. How can we ensure the...
The Gulf of Guinea's low-lying soft coastline is highly vulnerable to coastal erosion and relative sea-level rise (rSLR). Large capital cities and core economic activities are concentrated along the coastline, and potentially exposed to unforeseen risk. Currently, there is limited research on...
Nigeria’s low-lying coastal region, with its various economic activities, is vulnerable to global sea-level rise triggered by climate change. In some areas, this threat can be amplified by land subsidence, which can severely hamper coastal resilience. Several studies have investigated the...
The rise in commodity prices had already been happening since mid-2020 and is subject to an in-depth analysis in this third issue of the semi-annual MacroDev Panorama. The objective is to place the dramatic increase in prices observed in the spring in a historical perspective and question...
The Minka Peace and Resilience Fund, implemented by AFD, is dedicated to medium and long-term financing operations in regions affected by crisis or violent conflict. The Minka...
In Nigeria, the "Metis" project, through visual arts help to prevent students from dropping out of school.
Launched in 2021 by Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Metis fund promotes better integration of the arts and culture into official development assistance. This financial...
The CATCH UP! project carried out by the Urumwa Art studio in partnership with the artist Uche Uguru, aims to meet this need for basic education through access to culture. Working for several months on a collective art project can bring street children back to school and reintegrate them into...
As crises become longer and more complex, AFD Group has made a key commitment to sustainable peace, the climate and social cohesion. This commitment is part of France’s...
AFD began its activities in Nigeria 12 years ago and is now one of the country’s rightful partners. Its unique position as a bilateral lender for varied financing solutions enables it to contribute not only to the development of a...
AFD in Nigeria has always put gender at the center of its projects and reflections. In 2019, AFD’s communication department in Abuja decided to commission a movie on the emancipation of women in the capital.
Hélène Pont built her film on a long work of identification and observation...
The city of Lagos, with over 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in sub-Saharan Africa, with a natural population growth estimated at 6%, it is also one of most dynamic city on the continent.
However, the outdated transport infrastructure in Lagos and equipment have led Lagos...
As crises become longer and more complex, AFD Group has made a key commitment to sustainable peace, to the climate and to social cohesion. This commitment is part of France’s “Prevention, Resilience and Sustainable Peace” strategy aimed at minimizing States’ and societies’ vulnerabilities. This...
The violence linked to the Boko Haram crisis has had an impact far beyond the birthplace of the movement in northeast Nigeria, its combat zones and the areas to which its fighters have withdrawn. The multidimensional consequences of this crisis have affected the entire sub-region of the...
Pascal Grangereau is the country director of the French Development Agency (AFD) in Nigeria. In this video, Pascal Grangereau presents the highlights of 10 years of AFD activities in Nigeria. AFD has become a recognized partner in the country with activities in key sectors such as energy, water...
From 2009, insecurity linked to the insurgency of the Boko Haram group and its repression spreads from the heart of Nigerian Borno to the north-east of the country and then to the border areas of neighboring countries, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. The crisis has progressively affected the entire...