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Ukrainian War Worsens African Food Crisis
Numerous African communities dependent on agricultural imports are vulnerable to the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Both countries are major exporters of grains and important foodstuf...
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Cultural Spaces and the Evolving Cooperation between Africa and France
Organized by the urban cultural hub "La Friche la Belle de Mai" and AFD Campus, the international symposium on “Cultural Third Spaces, Towards New Means of Cooperation between Africa and France” will...
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Radio Ndarason in the Sahel: Urgent Issues, Practical News and Dialogue
With worsening food shortages, continuing conflict and the displacement of millions, the Sahel is mired in multiple crises. The relaying of reliable information has never been more important. With sup...
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Maïtena Master’s Program in Cameroon: The Response to the Training Needs Of Development Professionals
Maïtena Master 2 is a two-year master’s degree program created through a partnership between Université Senghor (Université de la Francophonie) and Campus AFD. The program provides capacity building f...
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COP15 to Combat Desertification and Restore Land for Food Security
“Land, life and legacy: from scarcity to prosperity”: this is the call to action for next week’s international conference to combat desertification. Held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire from May 9 to 20, mu...
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[Feature Report] Looking Back on the IUCN World Conservation Congress
With France, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) organized its World Conservation Congress from September 3 to 11, 2021 in Marseille.
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Cambodia: 20 years of AFD Support for Rubber Producers
Since 1999, AFD has been supporting a sustainable and inclusive rubber industry in Cambodia. With the signature of a new project, which will assess the consequences of climate change for the sector, w...
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AFD Backing in Laos for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
Two new grants agreements have been signed in Laos, for a total of 9 million euros. One project supports coffee growers; the other provides support for sustainable management of natural resources. Tog...
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Promoting Open Science: the full catalog of AFD Publications now available
On the eve of the International Day of Universal Access to Information on September 28, AFD confirms its commitment to open science, in particular by making our publications freely available.
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AFD in the Middle East: Promoting Societal Cohesion with Vocational Support and Training
Transnational armed groups, inter-religious and inter-ethnic conflicts, population displacements - warfare may have changed, but human insecurity is still very much a major challenge today. On the hee...
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UN Food Summit: “We Need to Recognize the Links between Climate Change and Food Security”
With the number of people suffering from hunger around the world continuing to rise, the UN held a world summit on the transformation of food systems on 23 September. Matthieu Le Grix, head of AFD’s A...
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Rise: a Program to Develop Social Entrepreneurship in the Western Balkans
AFD is supporting “Rise” – a program to help young entrepreneurs in the Western Balkans set up social enterprises. They are a key component of the region’s continuing development, and part of efforts...
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World Contraception Day: Supporting the Youth in Niger
Access to contraception is a major public health issue for women around the planet. To mark World Contraception Day on 26 September, AFD took a look at this issue through a major awareness-raising ini...
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Evaluation at AFD: A Powerful Tool to Improve Our Actions
Following AFD's two conferences on evaluation on September 28 and October 1, we examine its value as a tool to measure and assess development interventions. In this interview, Nathalie Le Denmat, Head...
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Improving financial inclusion: a priority in the Philippines
While the Philippines has been on a sustained growth trajectory since 2012 (+6.6% per year on average), its levels of poverty and income inequality are higher than most of its Southeast Asian neighbor...
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African Entrepreneurship: The Challenge of Scaling Up
In Africa, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) generate close to 80% of employment and are estimated to account for a third of GDP. Yet most SMEs have difficulty obtaining the finance they need to gro...
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[FEATURE] Africa-France: Youth take Center Stage at the Summit
The New Africa-France Summit will be held on October 8, 2021 in Montpellier, France. This year the format is radically different: no heads of state will attend – with the exception of French President...
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Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Awards: A Window onto the World
The 28th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award – a prize created to pay homage to the work of war correspondents – is being held until October 10. Agence Française de Développement, which is c...
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TNFD : Launch of the Development Finance Hub
The new Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has just held its first plenary in Paris. Within TNFD’s secretariat, AFD will lead and convene a Development Finance Hub, which will co...
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New Africa-France Summit: Moving to a new level of engagement
On the eve of the New Africa France Summit to be held on October 8 in Montpellier, AFD’s Director for Africa, Christian Yoka, takes a look at the challenges facing Africa and describes the role that A...
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