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Climate Finance: Helping the Philippines to Cope with Climate Change
The Philippines is one of the countries most exposed to the consequences of climate change. In response, the government has set ambitious targets through its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)....
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Ecuador
Located at the heart of global biodiversity, between the Andes, the Amazon and the Pacific Ocean, Ecuador is home to some of the richest yet most fragile ecosystems on the planet. Faced with the chall...
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New Phase of “Salam” Project Supports CSOs on the Southern Shore of the Mediterranean
Agence Française de Développement has just approved financing for the new phase of the Salam project, a program that supports young civil society actors on the southern shore of the Mediterranean. Foc...
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Kheira Benaissa, The Woman Transforming Organic Waste into Biogas
As part of its “Shared Innovation” series, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is showcasing innovative programs that have been developed in its partner countries. Kheira Benaissa, head of the...
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Elections in Angola: Will Angolans Choose a New Economic Path?
The outcome of the 2022 general elections, held on August 24, holds the key to transforming Angola's economic model. The importance of fostering a more robust, sustainable and inclusive development tr...
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Africa's Sports Economy: A Window into a Rapidly Changing Continent
Since 2015, the role of sports in development has gained extensive international recognition. The UN 2030 Agenda has also recognized the potential of sports for development, and the role they can play...
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Tackling Hunger in Niger - with Nutritious, Locally Produced Cereals and Flour
Niger is stepping up its action to fight malnutrition, in large part with the production of Misola infant flour. The locally produced flour is tackling food insecurity across the country. Co-financed...
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5 Flagship Projects that are Restoring Nature around the Planet
Close to 40% of the world’s land is degraded, according to the UN, which has made the need to protect biodiversity all the more urgent. AFD Group is convinced that biodiversity conservation and the fi...
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With just months to go to the Paris Olympics, we chart AFD’s work in Sports & Development
The countdown is on to 26 July, 2024. With just months to go before next year's Olympic Games begin in Paris, it’s time to take stock of AFD’s initiatives involving sports and development, particularl...
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Oceans: A New System to Protect Marine Biodiversity in Argentina - and Beyond
With 5,000 km of coastline, Argentina is working towards establishing, for the first time, a national system to monitor the abundant coastal and marine biodiversity around the country and beyond. By k...
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Civil Society Organizations and AFD: an Evolving Partnership
At a geopolitically and environmentally unstable time with the eruption of countless crises, cooperation between AFD and civil society organizations (CSOs) is more important than ever. CSOs have becom...
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Congo: Facilitating Access to Water – and Measuring the Benefits
For the past several years, the PILAEP project has backed the instalment of standpipes to facilitate access to drinking water in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's greater Kinshasa area. A project...
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Young People Entering Morocco’s Industrial Ecosystem via Public-Private Partnerships
Morocco has been developing a professional training system to better serve the needs of its industrial sector. A recent evaluation of such AFD-backed programs laud their success in the recruitment of...
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Holistic Forest Conservation in Madagascar: Is it Working?
The lush forests of Madagascar are home to a bewildering variety of wildlife and biodiversity. But they are threatened by deforestation and the destruction of natural habitats. The Holistic Forest Con...
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Honing Training Programs in Senegal to Boost Key Employment Sectors
One of the central challenges facing developing and middle-income economies is matching their educational and training sectors to employment markets. AFD has been supporting Senegal set up vocational...
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Protecting Biodiversity: the Key Role of Indigenous Communities
Worldwide, an estimated 400 to 500 million Indigenous people occupy 20% of the earth’s territory. Yet unsustainable development has caused not only the displacement of countless people, but also the d...
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Sports, Education and Training Together in Togo
As a key player in the education sector in Togo, AFD recently participated alongside the country’s Education Ministry in the final phases of the school and university sports championships. More than 8...
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Finance in Common Summit 2023: the Progress Made - and the Road Ahead
In the race against time to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, attention is turning to the more than 500 public development banks worldwide. Their involvement is becoming increasingly urg...
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Artificial Intelligence & the Sustainable Development Goals: a New Frontier
Public development banks are taking an interest in AI tools to improve the impact of their funding, starting with AFD, which presented its SDG Prospector in June. For Régis Marodon, Sustainable Financ...
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Africa Climate Summit: Rwanda to be a “Trailblazer” in Green Finance
For more than 15 years, Rwanda has placed climate change and the sustainability of its economy at the forefront of its national strategy. Doing so however, requires an overhaul of the entire financia...
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