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Infographic - Our commitments to gender equality in 2024
Since 2020, AFD has asserted its position as a committed actor in the international ecosystem on gender. In 2024, 61% of AFD’s financial commitments, in foreign countries, had a primary or signific...
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Environmental policies for supporting sustainable energy transition in Vietnam: Evaluation and policy recommen...
Vietnam has long been an active member of international efforts to address environmental challenges. In the pursuit of the goals of environmental protection, greenhouse gas emission reduction and clim...
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Greening Colombia’s Energy: The Future of Jobs and Pensions
This paper evaluates the effects of Colombia's transition to a low-carbon economy on employment and pensions. Utilizing a three-stage analysis integrating national energy scenarios, an input-output mo...
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Migration during Economic Crisis: The Case of Egypt
Egypt has experienced a major economic crisis since March 2022, which has had substantial impacts on food inflation and standards of living. This crisis was compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, its gl...
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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Egypt, 1998–2023
Female labor force participation in Egypt remains low, and wages consistently under-reward women compared to men. This disparity is partly driven by the systematic channeling of women into lower-payin...
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The Use of Information and Communication Technology in the Workplace in Egypt
The dynamic intersection between technology and labor constitutes the focal point of labor market policies designed to align with technological transitions. Studying the characteristics of digitized w...
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The Evolution of Social Protection in Egypt, 2006-2023
This paper examines the trends in social protection coverage in Egypt over the 2006-2023 period. The different forms of protection that we analyze include contributory social insurance schemes, employ...
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Evaluation of a series of policy-based loans to support the energy sector reform in Albania
The high-level objectives of the PBL were to enable the GoA, through targeted support, to fulfill its international commitments related to energy sector reform, and to assist the GoA in establishing a...
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Final evaluation of the Renewable Energy Absorption Transmission Development Project (REATDP), Sri Lanka
The project aimed at improving the electricity provision in Sri Lanka: • Increase the grid's renewable energy (RE) absorption capacity (specific outcome) • Reduce the average cost of production acr...
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Evaluation of Ghana Urban Management Pilot Programme (GUMPP) 2012-2021
The general purpose of the project is to improve living conditions in secondary cities through a policy of developing urban infrastructure in municipalities committed to improving their management....
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How can research inform public policies in Viet Nam in the face of climate change and energy transition?
Viet Nam is aiming for Net-Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, while sustaining economic growth. Achieving these targets is even more challenging due to global warming, especially increased cli...
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Làm thế nào để nghiên cứu có thể cung cấp thông tin đầu vào cho chính sách công ở Việt Nam trong bối cảnh biến...
Việt Nam đặt mục tiêu đạt phát thải ròng bằng 0 (Net-Zero) vào năm 2050, đồng thời duy trì tăng trưởng kinh tế. Việc đạt được các mục tiêu này càng trở nên thách thức hơn do hiện tượng nóng lên to...
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Guarantees: instruments to mobilize local resources
AFD Group offers its clients guarantees designed to facilitate access to financing for small businesses and microfinance institutions by reducing the risk borne by local banks when providing loans. Th...
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Local and regional authorities
A distinctive feature of French local and regional authorities is that they carry out international actions. And with its more than 5,000 active local or regional authorities, France has one of the mo...
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You represent a French local authority
AFD devotes an increasing amount of its activity to directly financing foreign local authorities. To implement this strategy, it relies on the strongly political expertise of French local authorities.
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Training: learning together to transform the world
AFD Group Campus is our training center, created to build a shared foundation of knowledge, to share experiences, and to learn the necessary skills to design and implement high-impact projects that su...
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan stands at the crossroads of Central Asia and has been the scene of conflicts since 1979. The country is struggling to find a way out of insecurity and political instability. It is also hig...
Regions and countries
Contact AFD
AFD headquarters and its annexes are located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris.
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Development banks and agencies
These institutions are backed up by States, enabling them to plan in the long term. They chart out new paths and generate dynamics. When it comes to facilitating transitions and reorienting the econom...
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IDFC
The International Development Finance Club (IDFC) is a network of 27 national, regional and bilateral development banks. AFD was one of its founding members in 2011 and has been chairing the organizat...
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