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AFD's Response to the Covid-19 Crisis
A worldwide health and economic emergency has emerged from the coronavirus pandemic. Since March, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has been working to provide a multi-pronged response. It is tr...
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Vietnam: Improving the management and Resilience of Natural Resources
The European Union and AFD have signed an agreement to increase the resilience of natural resources to climate change and reduce the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in Vietnam through a new faci...
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Gender-Based Violence on the Rise with the Coronavirus Crisis: Mar Merita Blat
The current health crisis is already leading to growing gender inequalities with women exposed to precarious work conditions, an increase in unwanted pregnancies and a sharp rise in domestic violence....
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Post-Covid Cities: A Webinar Series
A webinar series on urban affairs is already looking at how cities can cope in a post-Covid world. What are the ramifications of Covid-19 on urban development? How has it affected access to health an...
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Guinea Start-up Designs a Tablet to Diagnose Covid Symptoms
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. Today, we focus on a Guinean start-up that has designed in record time, a table...
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Broadening Access to Water in Rural Cambodia
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union continue to support private water and electricity operators in Cambodia with the aim of broadening access for people to meet their basic...
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“One Health”: Responding to Pandemics with a Holistic Approach to Human, Animal and Environmental Health
The One Sustainable Health for All forum in Lyon earlier this month examined ways to anticipate - and potentially ward off - future outbreaks of disease by improving international health surveillance...
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Coronavirus in Africa: Private Health Providers and Innovators on the Front Line
While the coronavirus is destabilizing an already fragile African health system, several private health services and innovators supported by Proparco – the private sector arm of Agence Française Dével...
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Preserving Oceans: Four AFD Initiatives
Assisting island populations, fighting plastic pollution, encouraging sustainable fishing, supporting marine protected areas...In the wake of World Oceans Day, this article takes a look at four projec...
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The Ocean: “It’s Time to Consider its True Worth” - Hélène Gobert
The state of the oceans reflects the health of our planet. Millions of people’s lives and livelihoods depend on clean, healthy oceans, as does precious marine life. To meet the rising environmental,...
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Laos
Laos is a mountainous and landlocked country but it does not lack assets. For some fifteen years, the country’s economic activity has been very strong, driven by an economic model based mainly on the...
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Adapt'action in Response to Climate Change: a €411 Million Boost
AFD’s Adapt'Action Facility supports 15 countries and regional organizations – from the Caribbean, to Cameroon and the Comoros – in building community resilience to the consequences of climate change....
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Civil Society, a Key Player in Managing the Health Crisis in Tunisia
Backed by AFD, Tunisian civil society has mobilized extensively to support the country's most fragile and marginalized communities. Below, an overview of the most successful initiatives, including the...
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The Dominican Republic: From Deforestation to Reforestation
Since 2001, the watershed region of the Yaque del Norte, the main river in the Dominican Republic, has with AFD’s support, been experimenting with an unprecedented territorial management program recon...
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Agreement on the Development of the Electricity Sector in Egypt
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Government of Egypt have signed on 10Th June 2020, a new Development Program Financing (DPF) agreement for the development of Egypt’s Electricity sector...
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A Loan Symbolizing France's Commitment to Mauritius
AFD granted a €300 million contingency loan to the Mauritian government on July 27 as part of the response to the Covid-19 crisis. We look back at the issues at stake in this public policy loan and Fr...
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Nature-Based Solutions: A Global Standard
Nature-based Solutions may have been proven effective in the fight against climate change, but they remain underused. One reason is there is no normative framework to harmonize practices and provide i...
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Rwanda: AFD teams up with Red Cross to tackle Covid-19
To help the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with its response to the Covid-19 pandemic, AFD has just allocated it a €2 million grant. These funds will allow it to develop prevention a...
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Launching a Call for “Sports and Health” Projects Supported by AFD and Fifa
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the pan-African financing platform Sport en Commun (“Sports in Common”, or sharing the sporting experience), to be officially launched on September 21, is issuing...
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Creating a “Lynk” between Workers & Clients: One of the Biggest Digital Platforms in Africa
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs devised and developed in our partner countries. Across Sub-Saharan Africa, most work is in the informal sector, where wages...
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