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Tapping into Global Finance to Expand Access to Clean Water

Drawing to a close on Friday, World Water Week is a global conference aimed at finding ways to expand access to water and sanitation services and improve water quality. Hosted by the Stockholm Interna...

Improving Access to Drinkable Water in Dakar - Despite Demographic Pressures

World Water Week, which ends this Friday, August 27, highlighted projects around the world aimed at universal access to drinking water. Of growing concern are the effects of urbanization and the incre...

Protecting Natural Areas in Chad to Preserve Biodiversity

Establishing natural protected areas can be an effective way of safeguarding biodiversity. AFD and the European Union are supporting such work in Chad, where NGOs are managing a complex of protected a...

Costa Rica and France's Southeast: A Partnership for Biodiversity at the World Conservation Congress

The Diversity Partnership Project led by France's Southeast and Costa Rica, a pioneer country in biodiversity protection, was presented during the World Conservation Congress of the International Unio...

Kosovo: Using Sports to Facilitate Reconciliation

The NGO PLAY International uses sport to promote education and inter-ethnic reconciliation, which is of vital importance in a region once riven by ethnic conflict. PLAY is part of a multi-country proj...

The IUCN World Conservation Congress in 8 Points

As the IUCN World Conservation Congress opens in Marseille, major nature-related issues will take center-stage, such as green finance, the interlinked health of animals, human beings and ecosystems, n...

IUCN World Conservation Congress: "There Can Be No Real Development Without Taking Nature into Account"

How Public Development Banks can Support Biodiversity

Despite the decline in biodiversity around the natural world, solutions can be found in unexpected places. Public Development Banks can play a major role in mobilizing the finance necessary to protect...

France and AFD, Key Partners of IUCN

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the French government, and Agence Française de Développement enjoy close ties, as exemplified by the successive partnerships the two parties...

Assessment of Conservation Trust Funds: For the Benefit of Biodiversity

For the first time, a cross-cutting assessment of eight biodiversity conservation trust funds and their support by Agence française de développement (AFD) and the Fonds Français pour l’Environnement M...

One Planet Summit: Eight Months on, Progress on Biodiversity

Agence française de développement is taking very concrete action to implement a series of initiatives stemming from the One Planet Summit in January 2021 and focused on biodiversity. A progress report...

AFD “Macrodev” Publication: Africa’s Financing Needs in Question

Lessons learned from the IUCN World Conservation Congress

The World Conservation Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) took place on September 3–11 in Marseille. This gathering helped put biodiversity protection high on the in...

[Feature Report] Looking Back on the IUCN World Conservation Congress

With France, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) organized its World Conservation Congress from September 3 to 11, 2021 in Marseille.

IDFC Turns Ten Years Old: A Milestone for International Coalition of Development Banks – and for Greener Finan...

At COP26 in Glasgow, the International Development Finance Club, met to mark its 10th anniversary. The Chief Executive Officer of Agence Française de Développement, Rémy Rioux, was reappointed for a t...

Paris Peace Forum: “For Better Global Governance”

For its fourth edition from 11 to 13 November, the Paris Peace Forum will focus on working to “reduce global divides” in a world still under the threat of Covid-19. Anne de Soucy, AFD’s Director of Pa...

The Impact of Climate Change on Lives and Livelihoods in Vietnam

In Vietnam, AFD and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) are conducting a research program entitled GEMMES Vietnam to assess the socio-economic impacts of climate c...

A Smart App for Sustainable Fishing in Mexico

As part of our “Shared Innovation” series, AFD is highlighting innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. The Mexican NGO Cobi and local fishers have developed a new smart p...

A Digital Response to the Health Crisis

Launched in Dakar, the DIRECCT program is supporting the connectivity and digitization of operators in the health, education and small business sectors. It’s a program that is helping people and polic...

Green energy in Vietnam: Expanded Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant will Reduce CO2 Emissions

AFD in Vietnam and Vietnam Electricity (EVN) have signed an agreement for a 70 million euro loan to boost the capacity of the Hoa Binh hydropower plant. This financing is in line with Vietnam's climat...