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Loans: the primary financing tool

AFD Group offers its clients a range of loan products tailored to the nature of their projects and borrower profiles.

Civil society organizations

AFD and civil society organizations (CSOs) work together to help the latter contribute better to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The partnership between AFD and CSOs has develop...

ESTEEM: Measuring macroeconomic risks in low-carbon transitions

The macroeconomic modeling tool ESTEEM (Exposure to Structural Transition in an Ecological-Economic Model) identifies the external, fiscal and socio-economic risks faced by developing countries in the...

From Delhi to Paris: India on the path to resilient urban waste management

Faced with rapid urbanization, India is grappling with a major challenge: organizing, modernizing, and financing its solid waste management system. From 7 to 9 July 2025, a delegation of senior Indian...

Bridging Divides: Evidence-Based Policies for Inequality Reduction and Sustainable Development

International conference of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities

Mid-term Evaluation of the Technical Assistance Program in Support to Reforms in the Water, Sanitation, and En...

The overall objective of the project is to strengthen the Lebanese actors in their respective functions as service providers (RWEs and supervision MoEW as well as to support the institutional dialogue...

Supporting the modernization of Ruhengeri referral hospital

The project, implemented by the Government of Rwanda and supported by AFD Group, aims to enhance healthcare access in the North of Rwanda through the modernization of the Ruhengeri Referral Hospital.

Energy Access and Quality Improvement Project

The project supports Rwanda’s national objective of achieving universal electricity access, through investments in grid expansion, improved service reliability, and institutional strengthening. The AF...

Research Conversations: Interactive Webinars on Sustainable Development

Are you interested in the new development research coming out? Would you like to see the latest results from studies carried out by AFD and its partners, and talk with researchers? Then the “Research...

Financial Systems

Digitization of the administration and innovations for development

AFD is supporting Rwanda’s digital transformation through the modernization of IT networks in government institutions across the country, the creation of a national GeoHub, and the building of a Drone...

Health in Common Initiative I & II

In response to COVID-19, AFD provided two successive budget supports to strengthen Rwanda’s health system, expand testing and treatment, and protect vulnerable households through social safety nets.

Evaluation of the Reconstruction & Development of the Potable Water Distribution Service In Mosul, Iraq

The objective of the project was to ensure the immediate recovery of the water service in Mosul while also ensuring long-term development, offering a pilot for the nexus from humanitarian to developme...

Final evaluation of the Renewable Energy Absorption Transmission Development Project (REATDP), Sri Lanka

The project aimed at improving the electricity provision in Sri Lanka: • Increase the grid's renewable energy (RE) absorption capacity (specific outcome); • Reduce the average cost of production ac...

Macroeconomic modeling tools for an ecological transition

AFD has developed two quantitative modeling tools – the GEMMES and ESTEEM – models to analyse the macroeconomic dimensions of the ecological transition.

Strengthening healthcare system resilience for all

AFD supports Rwanda’s health reforms with results-based financing to strengthen primary care, expand the health workforce, and develop climate-resilient facilities, ensuring quality care and access fo...

Our network in the Orient

AFD and the Orient: supporting transitions across the continent.