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AFD Group: maximizing impact in 2024
In 2024, AFD Group continued to expand its activity, with €13.7 billion in financing and over 1,250 new projects, to achieve its dual mandate: promoting solidarity for the most vulnerable communities...
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Mauritania: “Quality maternal health requires blood transfusion capability”
In Nouakchott, the new National Blood Transfusion Center marks a turning point in the fight against maternal mortality. With postpartum hemorrhage the leading cause of maternal deaths in Mauritania, a...
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The IDBio Project: transforming biosourced wastes for more sustainable industries
The IDBio project, supported by the Academia Partnerships Africa-France Program (PeA), responds to a growing challenge in Africa: the development of renewable resources and sustainable waste managemen...
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French Overseas Territories: 5 key points on AFD Group's operations
AFD Group is a long-standing partner of France’s Overseas Territories, where it has been working for over eighty years. The Group’s financing helps improve the living conditions of people in Overseas...
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Khadija Bourass: boosting biodiversity in Morocco through bird conservation
Through her work leading GREPOM, an NGO for bird conservation in Morocco, Khadija Bourass resolutely defends Moroccan biodiversity. She advocates for wildlife and wetlands, with the conviction that wh...
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How AFD takes action worldwide to protect the oceans
Having invested more than €4 billion in ocean-related projects since 2020, AFD works to preserve the oceans’ ecological health and reconcile their many uses by humankind.
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Integrating Vulnerable People into Congo Society via Entrepreneurship
Almost half of Congolese people live below the poverty line and most do not benefit from social protection services because they work in the informal sector. Recently though, the Government has launch...
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50 Years in Djibouti, and Seeing Results from Fight against HIV
To mark the 50 years that AFD has been active in the East African country of Djibouti, an exhibition featuring people involved in or benefiting from the decades of AFD activity has been unveiled. Amon...
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Sports and Development: the Key to Success
Since 2012, AFD Group has financed nearly 200 sports projects, supporting more than 80 athletes and reaching around 10 million young people. Recent evaluations of such initiatives confirm that, under...
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Foreign Direct Investment: Scarce for some, Abundant for others
Foreign direct investment (FDI) can indicate the relative attractiveness of emerging and developing countries' economies and their economic trajectories. Given the shocks that have struck economies ar...
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Swordplay for Sport, and to Deal with Delinquency in Senegal
It may seem counterintuitive to fight crime and delinquency by placing swords in the hands of convicted criminals. But an ambitious NGO has launched a program that allows young inmates to join fencing...
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Paris 2024: A Groundbreaking Summit for Sport, Youth and Sustainable Development
In a high-level summit on sports and development of a scale scarcely seen before, more than 500 participants from around the world, from Heads of State and Government to public banks and representativ...
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How Traditional Trades are helping Rebuild Communities in Morocco
Last year’s earthquake damaged not only infrastructure in Morocco, but also impacted the economy, notably in the rural Rhamna province between Casablanca and Marrakesh. Locals however, are using tradi...
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Protecting Nature and Biodiversity: "Living Things Deserve Rights"
Nature has long been regarded more as an object for use and exploitation than as a living entity worthy of protection. Advocates say we can best protect biodiversity by granting nature rights. Unlike...
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From Banking to Basketball, Moroccan Referee’s Mission to Make Sports Accessible
Thirty-four year-old French-Moroccan Najib Chajiddine was the youngest person to referee the basketball matches at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris. He’s also involved, with backing from AFD, in mak...
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Congo Confronted with Series of Epidemics, but a New Project Provides Boost to Healthcare System
In the poorest areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, the emergency health situation is causing high maternal and infant mortality. The Promekin II project has supported two maternity ward...
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Generating Good Governance as part of the Long Path to More Open Societies
Even the noblest of government policies make little headway if the administrative rules, regulations and functionality are brittle. Governance is key in ensuring that the rule of law prevails, it help...
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Preserving Mangroves: a Natural Rampart against the ravages of Climate Change
Mangroves are essential for storing carbon, protecting coastlines, and providing food and jobs for millions of coastal communities. But they are imperiled by the ravages of climate change and rapid ur...
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Back to School - with Sports - in the Comoros
In the Comoros off East Africa’s coast, nearly 70% of schools do not have a space suitable for practicing sports. Yet children’s well-being depends on regular physical activity. The Physical Education...
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Sleek Metro for India’s “Silicon Valley” Cuts Congestion and Smog
Driven largely by its tech industry, Bangalore’s rapid growth has been a boon for India’s economy. But it’s also led to severe traffic congestion and strained infrastructure. The city’s major metro pr...
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