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Using Artificial Intelligence to Assess Progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals
ChatGPT seems to be taking the world by storm. Typing a few words of instruction can prompt the chatbot to pen essays, ad campaigns or even film scripts. (A Hollywood blockbuster written by a robot is...
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Investing in Schools in Gabon
AFD Group and Gabon are working together to implement the Education Sector Investment Project, a €154 million loan to build between 500 and 600 new classrooms in Libreville and Port-Gentil. This ambit...
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Tunisia: Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture
Tunisia is preparing a project for the Green Climate Fund, which will promote climate-resilient agriculture and increase smallholder farmers’ incomes. With COP15 against desertification in full swing...
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Business Boot Camp to Maximize Ethical Entrepreneurship in Africa
For the next four weeks, until June 26, some 40 entrepreneurs in Africa will be chosen to take part in a business camp that will help launch their company, build their capacities and provide an opport...
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Bioeconomy: Protecting Biodiversity for an “Economy for Life”
Increasingly, governments, the private sector, civil society and international cooperation are investing in the bioeconomy – a range of economic activities that tap into our biodiversity. It’s an alte...
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Backing LGBTQ Rights in Albania
On World Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17, we tell the story of Xheni Karaj, who has defied death threats to campaign for the rights of LGBTQ+ people in Albania. She was honored by the...
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Elections in Angola: Will Angolans Choose a New Economic Path?
The outcome of the 2022 general elections, held on August 24, holds the key to transforming Angola's economic model. The importance of fostering a more robust, sustainable and inclusive development tr...
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Africa's Sports Economy: A Window into a Rapidly Changing Continent
Since 2015, the role of sports in development has gained extensive international recognition. The UN 2030 Agenda has also recognized the potential of sports for development, and the role they can play...
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Tackling Hunger in Niger - with Nutritious, Locally Produced Cereals and Flour
Niger is stepping up its action to fight malnutrition, in large part with the production of Misola infant flour. The locally produced flour is tackling food insecurity across the country. Co-financed...
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Using Satellites to Save the Sahel's Forests
Wood is the main source of fuel for cooking and heating across the Sahel, but much of it is disappearing due to deforestation. How to monitor the use and abuse of precious forest resources? The answer...
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A Boost in SDG-Based Bonds
AFD Group has just published the 2021 report of its Sustainable Development Goals bond issues. Reflecting investor confidence, they are up considerably as compared to last year.
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AFD ranked "Good" in Aid Transparency Index for the first time
AFD's efforts to improve the quality of its published data have been rewarded by the NGO Publish What You Fund (PWYF), which placed AFD for the first time in the "Good" category of its 2022 Aid Transp...
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Transforming Education: AFD Group has Solutions in its Satchel
Whether it's elementary school, vocational training, or higher education, AFD supports equitable access to quality education and training courses wherever it operates through a wide range of projects...
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Training the Caribbean’s Next Generation in Climate Change Resilience
The Caribbean is on the front lines of climate change. To lessen its impact on the region, adaptation strategies will require innovative solutions, integrated planning and multifunctional responses, e...
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More than 4 Million People will have Improved Access to Water thanks to AFD-Supported Projects
In the approach to its 77th session now underway in New York, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historic resolution declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a univ...
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How Soaring Commodity Prices are Affecting Developing Countries
From the Covid pandemic to global supply shortages, inflation, and the war in Ukraine, the world is lurching from one crisis to another. This has not only had a major impact on commodity prices, but i...
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Powering Batteries with Sun, Wind and Water
Where energy continues to be produced by fossil fuels, African countries are seeking sustainable alternatives. Africa Renewable Energy Scale-up (ARE Scale-up) funds the storage of sustainable sources...
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Gender Equality: A Multiplier Effect on Development
A linchpin of France’s feminist diplomacy, gender equality is a driver of AFD Group’s development policies and its benefits. More than simply taking a stand, AFD has translated this position into its...
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“The Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030 will be hard to Achieve”
War, climate change, droughts, and other weather events are all making the struggle to end hunger and malnutrition even more difficult. In this interview, Matthieu Le Grix, head of AFD’s Agriculture,...
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Sanitation in Djibouti: the EU and AFD Provide €40 Million
The European Union, AFD and the Djiboutian Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry have just signed several agreements worth a total amount of €40 million, intended to improve access to water and sa...
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