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Public Development Banks: Better Understanding Their Role in Financing Transitions
Through this research program on public development banks (PDBs), AFD helps build knowledge on the role, intervention models, and effectiveness of these key players in development financing. By suppor...
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Orsola COSTANTINI
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Trade, infrastructure, employment
A Research Officer at AFD, Orsola studies trade and industrial policies and their effects on productive structures, value chains, and the international distribution of jobs.
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What Success Means: Understanding Young People’s Aspirations and Pathways to Success in West Africa
This research, conducted in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire, aims to better understand young people’s aspirations in order to improve AFD Group interventions in the fields of education, training, and employ...
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How Can Public Development Banks Support the Energy Transition of Territories?
Energy policies designed at the national level produce different effects across territories and often prove insufficiently adapted to the diversity of local socioeconomic and environmental contexts. E...
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Country assessments: tracking and measuring the risks associated with AFD's investments
For some sixty countries, AFD analyzes ongoing development processes, characterizes growth trajectories, and identifies the associated economic, social, environmental, political, and financial vulnera...
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Inclusive economic and social recovery around Lake Chad
The security crisis around Lake Chad has led to the displacement of millions of people. To address the crisis, AFD, in the context of the Sahel Alliance, is supporting activities for economic recovery...
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Public enterprises
As major players in economic and social life, public enterprises contribute to the implementation of development policies. They are key partners for AFD.
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Private companies
The private sector has a vital part to play in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Trade capacity-building program for better integration into the global trading system
When aligned with a viable environmental and social pathway, trade can be a driver of economic resilience. The Trade Capacity-Building Program (PRCC) supports developing countries in transforming thei...
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Loans in local currency to facilitate financing for development projects
AFD offers financing solutions in local currency under certain conditions.
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Local CSOs
AFD offers several mechanisms to support local civil society organizations (CSOs), primarily by issuing calls for expressions of interest (AMI) and the CSO Initiatives Facility (I-OSC). AFD provides s...
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States or State-guaranteed companies
As the main operator of France’s Official Development Assistance policy, AFD Group works closely with foreign countries. We offer you a range of customized products to finance and support your structu...
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Local authorities in foreign countries and local public actors
AFD Group is devoting an increasing share of its activity to directly financing foreign local authorities.
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Financial Institutions and Banks
Banks and financial institutions play a direct role in reducing inequality, improving access to essential services, and combating climate change.
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The Cityriz guarantee: promoting sustainable investments in Africa
In conjunction with the European Union, AFD has developed this dedicated guarantee to encourage banks to take on the risk of supporting local authorities and allowing cities of all sizes to take out l...
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SOGEFOM: A guarantee fund that facilitates MSME access to bank loans
The SOGEFOM guarantee fund for the French Overseas Territories facilitates access for micro-, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to bank loans. Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is the...
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Biodiversity Partners Program: acting together for nature
The Biodiversity Partners Program (BIPP), led by the AFD Campus, assists public, private and non-profit entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs with the implementation of their projects for nature and biodive...
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Kiwa Initiative
To strengthen the adaptation of the Pacific territories to the impacts of climate change and better protect their biodiversity, the Kiwa Initiative is supporting projects that promote nature-based sol...
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Loans with rates fixed in advance to manage interest rate risks
As interest rates regularly change, borrowing at a rate fixed when the loan agreement is signed is a major advantage for long-term budgeting and planning, especially for large-scale projects.
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