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Cambodia: A Long Battle Against Gender Inequality
The celebration of AFD's 80th anniversary in Cambodia was an opportunity to examine how women’s rights and gender relations have evolved. It was also the chance to inaugurate the "Women's Voices" exhi...
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Senegal: Women Entrepreneurs in the Spotlight
In Senegal, 82% of the entrepreneurial base is made up of individual businesses. Fragile and informal, they often need room to grow in order to become viable. Financial support programs such as the Pa...
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Lebanon: Urgent Support Given to Crisis-Stricken Local Businesses
In the aftermath of the Port of Beirut explosions, supporting the network of small local businesses was deemed essential in a country experiencing recurrent political, economic and health crises. The...
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Lebanon: Rebuilding the Economy from the Ground Up
With crises multiplying in Lebanon, poverty has reached astronomical levels as the economy falters, and small and medium sized businesses struggle to survive. In the second-largest city, Tripoli, know...
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Rebuilding Lives after the Earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria: One Year On
In February 2023, earthquakes rocked Türkiye and Syria, killing more than 50,000 people. They were among the most devastating earthquakes to have struck the region in almost a century, turning cities...
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How AFD Ensures that its Financing Reaches the Final Beneficiaries
The projects financed by Agence Française de Développement are subject to ongoing attention. This involves a dialogue with its partners on almost a daily basis, supervision missions in the field, and...
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Workshop: Overcoming institutional and organisational barriers to sanitation
Sanitation remains a great challenge of our time, especially in fast-growing cities of Africa and Asia. AFD invites you to the scientific workshop organized by the ParisTech Chair “SUEZ-General manage...
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Financing Development: A Chinese Path?
Through the financing of major infrastructure projects, China has become a key player in development finance. How is Chinese aid distributed and what are its modalities? Which are the Chinese institut...
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Forecast-based early Action: A missing link between humanitarian response and development?
Leaning on improvements in forecasting, ‘Forecast-based early action’ is seen as an innovative approach to managing the residual risks that cannot be addressed through longer-term investment in resili...
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Finance in Common: The First Global Summit of All Public Development Banks
Taking place 9-12 November 2020 during the Paris Peace Forum, the Finance in Common Summit, will gather for the first time the world's 450 Public Development Banks (PDBs) and their partners, demonstra...
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Water drives resilience: A Call to Action for Public Development Banks
Agence Française de Développement (AFD), together with its partners, is pleased to invite you to the webinar “Water drives resilient countries: a call to action for public development banks to build a...
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Emerging Technologies and Development Banks: A New Intelligence Paradigm
In parallel with the Finance in Common Summit, AFD and the Governance Lab will host a webinar discussing four types of "intelligence," from artificial intelligence, which uses data to solve problems a...
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Finance in Common Summit Side Event – The Data4Nature initiative
Data4Nature is an initiative that encourages development actors to share biodiversity data from projects via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). During this webinar, representatives f...
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Climate change and financial stability
After a presentation of The Green Swan, the webinar will explore the challenges posed by climate risk on financial stability and supervision, share concrete examples of policies and initiatives put in...
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Multidimensional Inequality in Vietnam
The webinar “Multidimensional Inequality in Vietnam” is part of the AFD’s Research Department webinar series launched to offer a platform for discussion on research and public policy issues. The Viet...
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How to finance life on Earth: a high-level discussion with experts in biodiversity finance
On January 13 at 2:00 pm CET, John Tobin-de la Puente (Professor of Practice, Cornell University) and Andrew W. Mitchell (Founder and Senior Adviser, Global Canopy), in their role as publishers, will...
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#Data4Covid19 Africa Challenge Webinar
From now to February 5, 2021, AFD, together with Expertise France and The GovLab, is soliciting innovative proposals using data in a collaborative and responsible way to provide actionable intellig...
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Inequalities and Environmental changes in the Mekong region: a scoping review
On 24 February at 2 pm, participate in this webinar to discover the essential foundations of today's understanding of the link between the environment and inequalities in the Mekong region.
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Lake Victoria: From Pollution to Water Restoration
Lake Victoria is the second largest source of fresh water in the world. It may provide for the livelihoods of locals, but the water quality has degraded. Due to intense human activity, the water has b...
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The macroeconomic impact of typhoons on Vietnam using satellite imagery
What is the impact of typhoons on economic activity in Vietnam? What can we learn from satellite imagery? This webinar will be held on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm.
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