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The European Union and AFD Group Work Together for a Just Transition in South Africa
Defined by the OECD as a "large emerging country," South Africa has launched an extensive program to reduce its economy’s carbon footprint. The European Union, Germany's KfW and AFD Group are working...
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The AFD – European Union relationship Explained in one Infographic
For fifteen years, AFD and the European Union have worked together to support development programs in 74 countries. See how this solid and effective relationship has evolved and produced results in th...
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“In Africa, the most diversified economies have weathered the crisis best”
AFD played an important role in publishing the French-language book L’Économie africaine 2022 (“African Economies 2022”), which appeared in bookstores on February 17. The book sheds light on the macro...
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For a New Alliance between Africa and Europe
The EU-African Union summit on 17 and 18 February in Brussels is the culmination of intense reflection and dialog that will shape a new alliance between Africa and Europe. It’s a chance to review sus...
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TNFD : Launch of the Development Finance Hub
The new Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has just held its first plenary in Paris. Within TNFD’s secretariat, AFD will lead and convene a Development Finance Hub, which will co...
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New Africa-France Summit: Moving to a new level of engagement
On the eve of the New Africa France Summit to be held on October 8 in Montpellier, AFD’s Director for Africa, Christian Yoka, takes a look at the challenges facing Africa and describes the role that A...
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AFD Group Set to Invest Heavily in African Youth
On the heels of last week's New Africa-France Summit, whose aim was to reconstruct the relationship between Africa and France, AFD Group will be honoring the commitments made by the French President,...
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At the New Africa-France Summit, Young Africans Made Their Voices Heard
In Montpellier last week, the New Africa-France Summit introduced a brand new framework for relations between the people of France and Africa, while examining possibilities for the African continent o...
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Tackling Crucial Development issues in Southeast Asia
On 30 September and 1 October, AFD organized an online conference on the theme of "Southeast Asia’s challenges to sustainable and inclusive development". A dozen speakers shared their experience and v...
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The Second Finance in Common Summit: Public Development Banks at a Glance
More than 500 Public Development Banks are expected to convene for the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS), from 19 to 21 October in Rome and online, and hosted by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP). After t...
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Rémy Rioux: "A renaissance among Public Development Banks"
More than 500 Public Development Banks will tackle questions ranging from the pandemic to financing the economic recovery at the second Finance in Common Summit (FICS). Held in Rome from October 19 to...
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Biodiversity Degradation: 3 Risks for Finance
Damage done the environment has an impact beyond the natural world. It poses potential problems to financial institutions and consequently to individual savers and entire economies. Nature and financ...
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Clean Oceans: Setting Sail for Waste-Free Waterways
To combat the proliferation of plastic plaguing the world’s oceans, Agence Française de Développement has teamed up with the European Investment Bank and Germany’s development bank, KfW. Together, the...
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FiCS 2021: A New Database of the World’s 527 Public Development Banks and Financing Institutions Unveiled
A new database providing invaluable information on the world’s Public Development Banks will be presented at the second edition of the Finance in Common Summit this week. It’s a major update to the fi...
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AFD Group Publishes its first TCFD Report on Managing Climate-Related Financial Risks
How to cope with the financial risks associated with climate change? AFD’s new TCFD (Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure) report explains how its activities mitigate the risks and try t...
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Public Development Bank Evaluation and the Sustainable Development Goals
Public Development Banks are privileged partners in matters of development aid. Assessing their work allows AFD to better understand how to make collaboration with these institutions more productive,...
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Public Development Banks in Action: A Progress Report One Year On
In Latin America and the Caribbean, where GDP contracted by 7% in part due to the Covid pandemic, Public Development Banks stepped in to channel some $90 billion in credit. PDBs play a major role at t...
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Everything you wanted to know about COP26, in an SMS exchange
What is COP26? What is at stake? And what will be the role there for AFD? You’ll find the answers in this fictional but informative SMS exchange with Mathilde Bord-Laurans, AFD's Head of the Climate C...
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Following FiCS 2, Development Bank Coalition Ready for the Road Ahead
Hosted in Rome by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), the second edition of the Finance in Common Summit brought together for the second time the whole community of Public Development Banks and stakehold...
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Palestine
Present on the ground since 1998, AFD Group focuses its operations in Palestine on three priority areas: access to basic services, human capital development, and support to the private sector. The war...
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