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Fak’ugesi Festival 2020: A virtual feast of Africa’s best creative digital workshops, talks, pitches and digit...
Wits University’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct and Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg will run their Fak’ugesi Digital Innovation Festival 2020 programme live and online for one month fro...
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South Africa: International infrastructure partnership formalised
The Department of Local Government in the Western Cape and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at addressing the backlog in the investment in infrastructure...
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Signing of the “Energy Climate” Policy Based Loan between the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and AFD
On the 24th of August 2020, The Republic of Uzbekistan and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have signed an “Energy Climate” Policy Based Loan in co-financing with the Asian Development Bank (AD...
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Sustainable finance: Success of AFD's first SDG Bond issue for a total of 2 billion euros
After issuing climate bonds in 2014, AFD announced on 21 October that it had issued the first bond under its new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework, ahead of the "Finance in...
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France releases 25 million euros to help the housing and health sectors and aid economic recovery after the Au...
The Ambassador of France to Lebanon, Anne Grillo, chaired, on 5 November 2020, a signing ceremony for projects funded by France in response to the August 4 blast.
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Water stress in North Africa: The French Development Agency and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory sign a new pa...
Signature of a new partnership between the French Development Agency and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory for the establishment of a regional initiative: “Water Stress and Climate Change in North Afri...
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France grants €4 million towards key health projects in Sudan, through the Agence Française de Développement
On November 8, H.E. Mrs. Emmanuelle Blatmann, French Ambassador to Sudan, added her signature to two financing agreements between the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Save the Children Fund (Un...
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Finance in Common Summit: The development and sport worlds join forces for the “Sport for Development Coalitio...
Today Public Development Banks are launching a “Sport for Development Coalition” in close collaboration with the world of sport. Members are committed to mobilizing their financial resources, investme...
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Finance in Common Summit: Official launch of Sport en Commun”, the first digital platform in Africa for fundin...
Within the framework of the "Finance in Common" Summit, the African Sport en Commun platform was officially launched today in the presence of development and sport stakeholders mobilized to achieve th...
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Angola
Africa's largest oil producer, Angola is striving to rebuild itself after a 30 year-long civil war, at the same time as tackling a major economic crisis related to the international oil price shocks....
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Finance in Common Summit AFD is mobilizing €3 million to strengthen the structure and development of the Cais...
During the Finance in Common Summit, Agence Française de Développement announced support for the structuring of the Caisses des Dépôts et Consignations in Africa. It is entrusting a €3 million grant t...
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AFD and AADFI sign a first agreement to promote the key role of African development banks in achieving the SD...
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) have just signed a first partnership agreement for the achievement of the Sustainable De...
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Climate finance, post-Covid19 recovery: AFD and BOAD strengthen their strategic cooperation
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the West African Development Bank (BOAD) have decided to strengthen their operational partnership by signing a new framework agreement. A new stage in their...
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Uganda: AFD and the EU to Finance Better and Inclusive Access to Rural Water in the District of Isingiro
Hon. Matia Kasaija, Minister of Finance, Planning & Economic Development of the Republic of Uganda, and Mr. Hatem Chakroun, Country Director of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Uganda, h...
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CARIBSAN Project: Caribbean Cooperation to Protect and Enhance Local Natural heritage
On September 27 & 28, 2021, the virtual inauguration of the CARIBSAN project will beheld by videoconference. This high-level event will bring together political leaders aswell as all technical and ins...
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AFD successfully launches €2 billion 0.125% RegS Sustainable benchmark due 29 September 2031
On Wednesday September 22nd, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), rated AA / AA (S&P / Fitch) (Stable / Negative) issued a new €2 billion Sustainable benchmark bond maturing in September 29th 2031...
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Launch of the Sport for Mental Health and Social Cohesion Programme Co-Funded By AFD, FIFA and GIZ
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarb...
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UN Women and AFD Unveil New Report on Public Development Banks’ Contributions to Advancing Gender Equality
UN Women and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have launched the “Public Development Banks Driving Gender Equality” report, with learnings from participating institutions on their contribution t...
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Finance in Common Summit: Development Banks Commit to Post-Pandemic Recovery and Sustainable Development
Over 500 Public Development Banks (PDBs) gathered in Rome to promote models capable of catalysing public and private resources towards sustainable agri-food systems and food security, the fight agains...
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AECID, AFD, CDP and KfW together for the creation of a new European Strategic Cooperation Framework
The joint declaration signed today is the first pillar of the European finance platform, which aims at improving aid effectiveness and leverage on collective resources to deliver on the SDGs, drawing...
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