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World Urban Forum: Housing is a Key Component to the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
Agence Française de Développement will be at the 12th edition of the World Urban Forum in Cairo, Egypt, from 4 to 8 November. This forum is organized by UN-Habitat, the United Nations agency mandated...
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Plagued by Plastic, Caribbean Countries team up with Partners to forge a Greener Future
As “Latin American and Caribbean Weeks” enters its third week, international negotiations for a treaty to end plastic pollution are being held in Paris. The link between the two? The Caribbean is awas...
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Kenya: The Benefits of Investing in Informal Settlements
Kenya is host to some of the largest informal settlements in the world. Together with the World Bank, AFD is backing efforts to improve living conditions in a program known as KISIP1. Already benefiti...
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[Special Series] Sustainable Infrastructure to Build a World in Common
From hospitals to housing and from water to transportation, AFD Group supports the construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of infrastructure in many countries. The Summit for a New Global Financi...
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The Philippines: Working with Local Communities to Build Climate Resilience
The Philippines is the fourth most disaster-prone country in the world, a situation that is becoming increasingly urgent in the face of climate change. AFD Group is working with the Government and loc...
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Working towards Food Security in West Africa: 5 AFD Group Projects
In 2023, nearly 43 million people will face food shortages in West Africa – four times higher than over the last ten years. In the approach to World Food Day on October 16, we focus on five AFD Group-...
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Providing Support for Sustainable Infrastructure
AFD Group backs the building, maintenance and rehabilitation of infrastructure around the world, with long-term support for housing, hospitals, transport and more. High on the agenda of the Summit for...
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Taking Action to Defend the Rights of Refugees
How can we better protect refugees forced to flee their countries to escape conflict or persecution? As World Refugee Day draws attention to the plight of refugees on June 20, let's take a look at thr...
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5 Things to Know about the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact
Developing countries are exposed to a growing number of threats, from climate change to health emergencies, as well as the global financial fallout from political and military crises. How to provide t...
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Ethiopia: Planting seeds for food security after two years of war
Soil is the stuff of life – and it’s one of the first things to be affected by armed conflict. So Ethiopia’s first priority following the two-year Tigray war that ended last November is to ready the f...
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Rallying Public and Private Climate Finance in Rwanda
A leader in the field of green finance, Rwanda took center stage at the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris on 22 and 23 June. By mobilizing an additional 300 million euros, Rwanda, Team E...
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Working with Brazilian Communities to Protect the region’s Vast & Vulnerable Grasslands
An ambitious agreement has been signed to protect the vast fertile grasslands covering an area of some one million km2 across the Southern Cone of Latin America, known as the Pampas. AFD and its partn...
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Brazil: Protecting Nature and Supporting Sustainable Infrastructure
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, a major buffer in the global fight against climate change, has fallen by close to a third compared with the same period last year. This breathes new life into efforts...
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Partnering for Niger’s Development: Common Funds for Greater Outcomes
Niger has stood out from other West African countries in recent years, by involving a wide range of technical and financial partners in its development policies. Among the innovative tools used by the...
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Finance in Fiji: Backing Businesses and Creating Jobs
In a pioneering program in the Pacific, timely finance is creating gainful employment on the ground. AFD Group and the European Union are supporting Fiji Development Bank with a financial guarantee en...
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Polynesia: Preparing Future Generations for Climate Change with Educational Marine Areas
With island states at grave risk of being submerged by rising waters, it has never been more important to educate young people on the pleasures and perils of the sea, and on the need to find ways to a...
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3rd FICS Summit for a Green and Sustainable Recovery
Representatives from hundreds of Public Development Banks (PDBs) around the world are to convene in person and virtually for the third Finance in Common Summit – the first such gathering in Africa. De...
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Confronting Coastal Erosion in the Caribbean
With rising sea levels and the chipping away of their coastlines, islands like Martinique are already bearing the brunt of climate change. Thirteen municipalities are on the list of regions vulnerable...
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“Every year, $500 Billion goes to Projects that may be Destroying Nature”
Biodiversity protection and its financing will be a big topic of discussion at the Finance in Common summit on October 19–20 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Odile Conchou, AFD’s Biodiversity and Finance Ad...
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Public Development Banks explained in 4 Infographics
Little known by the public, the more than 500 public development banks (PBDs) around the world play a major role in the global economy, accounting for more than 10% of annual world investment. As PDBs...
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