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Digital Energy Challenge 2025: Five projects recognized in Dakar
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) announced the five winners of the 2025 Digital Energy Challenge during an event held in Dakar, which brought together more than 100 energy players from across A...
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AFD Bouaké SERIOUS Road Safety Project Awarded Prestigious Prince Michael International Road Safety Award
The groundbreaking AFD-funded SERIOUS project (SystEm for suRveIllance of rOad and health accidentS), an innovative digital initiative that transforms road safety data management in Bouaké, Ivory Coas...
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Carbon market integrity: How to move beyond the limitations and uncertainties?
Carbon markets are expanding rapidly, driven by net-zero commitments and the rise of compliance mechanisms. Yet their environmental integrity remains fragile: information asymmetries, over-crediting,...
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14th AFD-JICA Regular Dialogue Held in Tokyo: Strengthening Strategic Partnership for the Future of Developmen...
The 14th Retreat between the Agence française de développement (AFD) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) was held in Tokyo. This Retreat was conducted under the Memorandum of Coopera...
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AFD in Fiji
The second largest economy among the Pacific Islands, the Fiji archipelago has a population of nearly one million, whose daily lives remain deeply rooted in community bonds. Since opening its office...
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Working with Papua New Guineans to protect nature – the SoNG project
Officially launched in December 2025, the SoNG project aims to preserve Papua New Guinea’s rich biodiversity in close collaboration with local communities, who depend on it for their livelihoods and c...
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Why does AFD also finance China, India, Brazil and Türkiye?
China, India, Brazil, Türkiye… Why does the AFD Group also operate in these major emerging economies, often perceived as established powers rather than “natural” priorities for development aid? Becaus...
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2024 Sustainable Development Goal bond reporting
In 2020, to increase the consistency of its 100% Paris Agreement and 100% Social Link commitments with its presence on the markets, the AFD Group set up a framework for bond issues aligned with the Su...
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Combining expertise and financing solutions from Public Development Banks and insurers to respond to climate risk
Developing countries are 15x more vulnerable to climate-related mortality, yet insurance is still underused as a financial resilience tool. IDRIMA, the Integrated Disaster Risk Management Alliance...
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Unseen and Unheard: How Technology Facilitates Gender-Based Violence and What We Can Do About It
This conference is part of the "TechTalks" series.
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Innovation at AFD Group: Funding, supporting, anticipating
Whether social, technological, financial, or methodological, innovation is central to AFD Group’s activity and to the action of the two funds it hosts: the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM...
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5 projects from 19 higher education and research institutions join the “Academia Partnerships Africa-France” ...
Following the call for proposals for the 3rd edition of the “Academia Partnerships Africa-France” (PeA) program, 5 projects have been selected, associating 5 African and 14 French higher education and...
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The AFD Group offer for the social protection sector
Nearly half of the world’s population lacks any social protection. Greater investment is needed in low- and middle-income countries to address poverty, inequalities, and crises. That’s why AFD Group i...
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ESTEEM Cambodia : A Model to Support a Just and Sustainable Development
ESTEEM Cambodia is more than just a modeling exercise. It is a dynamic macroeconomic tool designed to help Cambodian policymakers make informed decisions in real time and plan for a fair and sustainab...
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“Strengthening Feminist Movements for Reproductive Autonomy” launches at Latin American Feminist Conference
We are pleased to announce the launch of a bold new initiative—Movements for Reproductive Autonomy, Equality and Solidarity (MAREAS). A multi-country initiative across Africa and Latin America to ampl...
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AFD Group at COP30
Held from November 11 to 21, 2025, in Belém, Brazil, the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will bring together world leaders,...
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COP30: Who will pay for the climate?
A few days before the opening of COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Thomas Melonio welcomes François Gemenne – political scientist, professor at HEC, president of the Observatory of Sustainable Finance, and co-a...
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European Commission invests EUR 20 million to develop urgently-needed medicines against dengue in partnershi...
Dengue is spreading fast because of climate change and globalization, with a growing number of cases in previously unaffected European countries. Yet, there is still no specific treatment for the dise...
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How to curb deforestation on the Amazon frontier?
Deforestation in the Amazon advances through a frontierexpansion dynamic marked by speculation, land conquest, and the rapid conversion of land. These dynamics often come with conflict and exclusion,...
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