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Our diversity commitments
As a French public institution, Agence Française de Développement must be exemplary in terms of diversity and inclusion, one of the essential conditions for its excellence. That’s why AFD promotes the...
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Tristan-Aurel MOULINE
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Associate Chief Executive Officer
Tristan-Aurel Mouline has been Associate Chief Executive Officer of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group since 2025. In this role, he oversees strategy and partnerships, supervises risk manag...
AFD and NBA Africa launch inclusive Basketball Experience for students with disabilities in Kenya
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group, in collaboration with NBA Africa, today launched the Disability Inclusion component of the ongoing Basketball Experience (BE) programme in Kenya at t...
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How do international organizations address the articulation between gender and climate?
It is not prior to the 2010s that the gendered aspects of climate action were comprehensively addressed and started to permeate the climate change agenda through the Conferences of Parties. Over the p...
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Sovereign Credit Ratings in Developing Countries-Regional Biases and Subjectivity Factors
Sovereign credit ratings play a critical role in the international financial system and have a tangible impact on countries’ fiscal, economic, and development trajectories. Nevertheless, the activity...
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البناء المشترك لممارسات البحث العملي: استعراض الخبرات المستخلصة من قطاع الاقتصاد الاجتماعي والتضامني في تونس
لاستكمال هذه المذكرة السياسية، التي تقدّم توصيات قيّمة لجعل البحث-الإجرائي رافعةً حقيقية لتنمية الاقتصاد الاجتماعي والتضامني في تونس، أودّ أن أُبرز ثلاثَ شروط أراها أساسية لضمان استدامة هذا المسار. أ...
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Sophie DERUDDER
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Acting Executive Director of Campus AFD
Sophie Derudder is a graduate of Telecom SudParis (2005) and holds a master’s degree in public management jointly awarded by ENA and Université Paris-Dauphine (2011). From 2005 to 2008, she worked as...
AFD and Danish Refugee Council launch €8 million project to support women’s economic resilience and social coh...
As the crisis in Sudan continues to unfold, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has announced a partnership with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), in close collaboration with local feminist or...
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Adama MARIKO
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Secretary General - Finance in Common , Acting Executive Director of the Directorate for Mobilisation, Partnerships and Communication, AFD
Macroeconomic country assessment – Ecuador
Ecuador is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectories and macroeconomic and financial situations.
Research project
Distributional Impacts of Environmental Policies in Indonesia
What would be the impact of a carbon tax policy on poverty and inequality in Indonesia? How can we design effective policies that simultaneously meet environmental and distributive objectives? In part...
Research project
Urban land-based commons for housing in the Global South
This research project focused on collective arrangements for access to land and housing in developing cities that are linked with the concept of commons. It studied the implementation of some collecti...
Research project
GEMMES Côte d'Ivoire: designing a tool for the sustainable energy transition
Côte d'Ivoire, whose current electricity production is largely based on natural gas, has affirmed its commitment in favor of the energy transition. The GEMMES Côte d'Ivoire project studies the interac...
Research project
Ocean and commons: Conserving marine biodiversity on the high seas
Often referred to in the singular, the ocean is nonetheless a plural space, built according to the diversity of society’s relationship to the sea. Through the study of an oceanographic phenomenon in t...
Research project
Studying wildlife economy to mainstream biodiversity into agricultural policies in South Africa and Kenya
The ECOPRONAT programme explores the levers for mainstreaming biodiversity into different economic sectors. As part of this research programme, AFD is working with the South African National Biodivers...
Research project
Understanding the paracommons of Palestinian water
In the Palestinian territories, water, as a circulating resource, is shared among several actors, including at the local level. Mobilizing the concept of "commons", this research program aimed to unde...
Research project
New Caledonia: A New Tool to Measure Environmental Sustainability
Measuring the environmental impact of economic activities can be a complicated business. A new pilot project, assesses New Caledonia's environmental sustainability, based on the Environmental Sustaina...
Research project
Rethinking the evaluation of developing countries' fight against inequality and climate change
How can we measure the efforts made by developing countries to combat the inequalities and the impacts of climate change while taking into account the socioeconomic structure of these countries? The E...
Research project
Realizing the potential of public development banks for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
There are more than 500 Public Development Banks (PDBs) and Development Financing Institutions around the world. Spread over all continents, with varying sizes, geographies and areas of intervention,...
Research project
Macroeconomic country-assessment – Mexico
Mexico is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectory and macroeconomic and financial situation.
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