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AFD Group Economic and Financial Transition Strategy
The Economic and Financial Transition Strategy is one of AFD’s 6 transitions. Its objective: support the transformation of economies to build economic, social and environmental balances sustainable ov...
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AFD Group Economic and Financial Transition
Let’s change horizon, let’s transform the economy. This is the goal of the economic and financial transition. Its guiding principle: build a longer-term vision of the economy to ensure that its object...
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Urban Development and Support for Local Authorities - 2020 Activity Report
AFD provides cities with support for taking up the challenges of urban growth, social and territorial inequalities and territories’ vulnerability. It promotes sustainable cities as a process of design...
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Digital Transition - 2021-2025 Strategy
Faced with geopolitical threats in which digital technology is a vector, this AFD Group strategy bears a specifically French and European signature: that of digital commons at the service of citizens...
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Minka Peace and Resilience Fund - 2020 Activity Report
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 “Prevention, Resilience and Sus...
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Sahel - 2020 Activity Report
The Greater Sahel region was once a prosperous region in Africa. The region is clearly defined by its geography and climate. It also has the lowest GDP per capita of all the six African regions identi...
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100% Social Link - 2021-2025 Strategy
AFD Group uses the social link – that is, the ties between individuals, social groups, territories, organisations and institutions – as the foundation for sustainable and shared development. Our 10...
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AFD's 100% Social Link Strategy
For AFD, the social link is the condition for sustainable and shared development. Strengthening the links between individuals, between social groups, and between territories will make it possible to i...
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AFD and Environmental and climate justice
Faced with the environmental and climate emergency, AFD’s Justice Group offers to support its partner countries to strengthen their environmental law and ensuring access for all to justice in environm...
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AFD and capacity building
Nowadays, AFD is no longer simply a «development financier», but rather strives to strengthen its partners in a more structural way. With in-house expertise in capacity building, we support them in th...
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East Africa - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy
Based in Nairobi, the Eastern Africa Regional Office covers eleven countries: Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Tanzania. This regional st...
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Questioning Fishing Access Agreements towards Social and Ecological Health in the Global South
While marine ecosystems play a major role in the regulation of climate and our Planet's ability to cope with climate change, they are also critical for providing food, livelihood, and income to billio...
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Evaluation Summary - Secondary Cities Project, Burkina Faso
In 2009, the rate of access to electricity in Burkina Faso stood at around 13%, well below the average of the ECOWAS countries (19%). The country’s energy mix was highly dependent on thermal energy. T...
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Evaluation Summary - Sustainable Energy Efficiency Development in Palestine – SPEED project
In Palestine, in the Energy sector, the Sustainable Energy Efficiency Development (SPEED) Program has been evaluated in September 2019. This SPEED program (2013-2018) aimed at supporting the main o...
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Stakeholder engagement on inequality trends in South Africa – A multidimensional diagnostic of inequality
It is widely accepted that South Africa’s persistently high levels of inequality are not only a humanitarian crisis, they are also unsustainable and curb the country’s growth potential. Yet, despite e...
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Five years after the Paris Agreement: What results for AFD?
In 2015, the Paris Agreement marked a historic turning point in the global fight against climate change. And for over three years, Agence Française de Développement has been scaling up its commitments...
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The impact of the military-political crisis of 2002 on inequalities in Côte d’Ivoire
The military-political crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, sparked by an armed rebellion on September 19, 2002, increased inequalities in the CNW zone (Center, North, and West). However, even if they remained hi...
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Where do social inequalities come from in Côte d’Ivoire?
The LAMPE study on the determinants of social inequalities in Côte d’Ivoire1 shows a persistence of inequalities between 2008 and 2015. In particular, inequalities in participation in the labor market...
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Improving housing and access to sanitation in informal neighborhoods in Ouagadougou to reduce inequalities
The precarious housing conditions in informal settlements increase inequalities. Restructuring these neighborhoods by providing them with basic social services would be one of the solutions to improve...
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Capital stranding cascades: The impact of decarbonisation on productive asset utilisation
The aim of this article is to assess the exposure of economic systems to the risk of physical capital stranding following a reduction of fossil fuel production and use. We calculate crosssectoral and...
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