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€100 Million to Improve Education in Guinea and Niger
The Global Partnership for Education, which aims to improve the quality of learning and reduce inequalities in access to education, has delegated to AFD its mission to increase the effectiveness of th...
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How to Accelerate the Ecological Transition
To get feedback on AFD's “Territorial and Ecological Transition” strategy, we've launched an platform for online consultation. The Strategy covers a wide variety of topics, from our ecological footpri...
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Benin Sows the Seeds of Agroecology
AFD has supported the Agro-ecological Transition in Cotton Areas Project (Tazco) run by the Government of Benin since 2017, with the aim of preserving natural ecosystems and enabling cotton producers...
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“In Lebanon, Our Top Priority is to help the Most Vulnerable” - Olivier Ray, AFD’s Regional Director in Leban...
The massive explosions at Beirut’s port on August 4, which killed more than 200 people and injured thousands, are the latest in a series of tragic events to strike a country mired in crisis. AFD has r...
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A Loan Symbolizing France's Commitment to Mauritius
AFD granted a €300 million contingency loan to the Mauritian government on July 27 as part of the response to the Covid-19 crisis. We look back at the issues at stake in this public policy loan and Fr...
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Nature-Based Solutions: A Global Standard
Nature-based Solutions may have been proven effective in the fight against climate change, but they remain underused. One reason is there is no normative framework to harmonize practices and provide i...
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Rwanda: AFD teams up with Red Cross to tackle Covid-19
To help the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with its response to the Covid-19 pandemic, AFD has just allocated it a €2 million grant. These funds will allow it to develop prevention a...
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Launching a Call for “Sports and Health” Projects Supported by AFD and Fifa
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the pan-African financing platform Sport en Commun (“Sports in Common”, or sharing the sporting experience), to be officially launched on September 21, is issuing...
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Creating a “Lynk” between Workers & Clients: One of the Biggest Digital Platforms in Africa
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs devised and developed in our partner countries. Across Sub-Saharan Africa, most work is in the informal sector, where wages...
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AFD’s Atlas of Africa: Viewing the Continent from a New Angle
More than 100 new maps and graphs bring to life an unprecedented amount of data in the form of a 128-page “Atlas of Africa.” It breaks down crucial development issues facing the continent today, inclu...
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AFD in Action to Protect the Amazon
Amazon deforestation continues at record levels. Massive fires have ravaged the world’s largest rainforest. This constitutes a catastrophe in what is home to more than 50% of the world's biodiversity...
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To what extent are issues related to the Mediterranean marine and coastal ecosystem taken into account in ...
With the publication of its first strategic framework dedicated to the Ocean in 2020 the Agence française de développement (AFD) aimed to set out its territorial and ecological transition strategy at...
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Activity Report 2023 - The Environmental and Social Complaints Mechanism
The AFD Environmental and Social (E&S) Complaints Mechanism enables any individual, group of people or NGO affected by the environmental or social aspects of an AFD-financed project to file a complain...
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Türkiye – Maintaining the new course, for prosperity…and posterity
A diversified and industrialized economy, a NATO member since 1952, a founding member of the OECD in 1961 and a member of the G20, Türkiye [1] enjoys an enviable geostrategic position. Its development...
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Annex 6. Environmental and Social Management Framework - E-Motion Program
E-motion aims at accelerating electric vehicle deployment and enable a large-scale regional transition towards electro-mobility in seven Latin Americans countries – Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa...
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Comparative Study on Financing Schemes for Student Accommodation in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, & South Africa
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...
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Market research on co-living affordable housing solution in Gauteng, South Africa (Part One)
Respublica, a leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in South Africa and partner of Proparco, aims at developing co-living affordable housing solutions for young professionals...
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Support for Civil Society Organizations – 2023 Activity Report
The year 2023 was marked by a series of events and transformations that once again, underscored the need to take action at grassroots level to support communities. The proliferation of conflicts and t...
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Market research on co-living affordable housing solution in Gauteng, South Africa (Part two)
Respublica, a leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in South Africa and partner of Proparco, aims at developing co-living affordable housing solutions for young professionals...
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