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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....

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...

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...

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...

Mexico City Metro: AFD Renews Ties With 50 Years of History

Ocean Hackathon 2019: An Algorithm for Advanced Sargassum Detection

Supported by AFD, the 2019 Ocean Hackathon took place over 48 hours, featured eight competing teams and awarded one winning challenge: The Mexican designers of an algorithm detecting sargassum, the se...

The NBA, AFD and a brand new BASKETBALL AFRICA LEAGUE: Sports and Development

The day before the January 24 game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Charlotte Hornets, the NBA and AFD held a press conference in Paris, marking the launch of a new league that will span the Africa...

In Ghana, a School That Trains a New Generation of Women

In Akuse, in eastern Ghana, Legacy Girls College provides high-quality education at reduced tuition fees for its 400 students. This represents a rare opportunity in a country where many young girls l...

Sports and Sustainable Development: AFD and Paris 2024

Sports and sustainable development – it’s a powerful combination taking flight in France and around the world. Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive Officer of Agence Française de Développement and Tony Estangu...

Aquaculture in Zanzibar: Providing Work and Protecting the Coastline

On the Zanzibar Archipelago, an ambitious pilot project aims to help coastal communities preserve natural resources while they make a living. Among them are aquaculture farmers specializing in seaweed...

12 African Cities making the Digital Transition

Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is supporting 12 African cities in their effort to make the transition to digital platforms. The municipalities’ aim is to collectively develop and share skills...

AFD new 1bn euro 5-year climate bond

Monday February the 10th, the Agence Française de Developpement rated AA (S&P) / AA (Fitch), succefully issued a 1 billion euro Climate Bond maturing 25 March 2025. It is the biggest climate bond issu...

Assess to Advance

Discover here the case studies carried out over the 2017-2018 period, at the core of an initiative designed to improve the efficiency of AFD's action.

In Bangladesh, Smart Grids Provide Over a Million People With Access to Electricity

François Lhomme is an expert in intelligent electrical networks (“smart grids”) and a project team leader in the Energy Division of Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Here he describes the merit...

Laurent Klein: "Disaster Risks Preparedness and Management are Played out at the Local Government Level”

On the occasion of the launch of the first disaster preparedness and management tool for local government units (LGUs), Laurent Klein, Director of AFD's Manila agency, explains the challenges of local...

“The FGEF Has Been Innovation for the Environment for 25 Years”: Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann

The French Global Environment Facility (FGEF) was launched after the first Earth Summit, in 1994. Since then, it has worked towards one singular goal: to create synergies between environmental preserv...

Phnom Penh: Upgrading a major water treatment plant

Located in the heart of Phnom Penh, the Chamcar Morn water treatment plant plays a strategic role in supplying water to the city’s residents. After several months of work on its improvement and expans...

Enda: Microcredits for the Economic Inclusion of Women in Tunisia

A forerunner of microfinance in Tunisia, the NGO Enda has demonstrated for almost 30 years that microcredits are a powerful tool for poverty reduction and economic development. Promoting female entrep...

Indonesia: Tackling Plastic and Marine Debris

For a country consisting of 17,000 islands and dependent on the sea around them, it’s an environmental crisis: Indonesia’s waters are full of plastic. It’s time to turn the tide. On 12 March, the Indo...

Coronavirus: The AFD Group Takes Action

In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the AFD Group has adapted its operational activities and human resources. The group is working on a response aimed at limiting any health-related or economic d...