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Water management: A fresh start in Jodhpur
The project aims to optimize Jodhpur’s drinking water network, with an approach that focuses on energy and water savings and on improving the living conditions of the people.
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Restoring ecosystems with the residents of Assam
AFD supports a sustainable and participatory management of forest ecosystems in Assam, while developing the economic resources of the populations.
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Helping Kochi sustainably restructure its urban mobility
AFD supports the city of Kochi in the construction of a light metro and the restructuration of its urban mobility. An innovation-driven project that greatly contributes to transforming Kochi into a Sm...
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Reducing the fossil fuel consumption of Turkey’s growth
Turkey’s economic growth consumes 50% more energy than that of the EU. The development bank TSKB has set out to reduce this energy consumption by promoting initiatives for sustainable tourism and in t...
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Preserving Turkish forests
The Turkish-French cooperation on sustainable forest management is a key sector for AFD in Turkey. AFD has been supporting the Turkish forest policy through four policy-based loans to the Government o...
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ARE scale-up: deploying renewable energy in Africa
Renewable energy is essential to meet Africa's growing energy demand and to ensure access to electricity for all. Meeting these challenges requires supporting public institutions, and mobilizing priva...
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Promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency
AFD is supporting Brazil’s public policies for renewable energy development in order to contribute to curbing greenhouse gas emissions, while supporting innovation and promoting energy efficiency.
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Better living conditions for Cape Town residents
AFDis supporting the Municipality of Cape Town, the second largest city in South Africa, to ensure previously disadvantaged populations have access to new infrastructure and basic services such as wat...
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Decent housing in Johannesburg's City Centre
AFD is supporting a private sector property developer to build affordable rental housing in Johannesburg. The aim: to promote better integration of people in socio-economic fabric of Johannesburg’s ci...
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Rehabilitating and expanding water and sewerage services in the Copperbelt Province
This project aims to extend and secure sanitation and drinking water services in three cities in Copperbelt Province, thus improving the living conditions of 530,000 people by 2050.
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Securing the water supply in the Durban region
AFD, for which water is one of the main strategic areas, is cofinancing a major program for the construction of infrastructure to mobilize and transfer raw water in the region of Durban (Ethekwini). A...
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Research on Scaling up Nature-Based Solutions and Large-Scale Ecological Restoration
Within the frame of the biodiversity research program "Encouraging the Development of a Pro-Nature Economy" (ECOPRONAT), AFD is launching a call for expressions of interest for research on "Scaling up...
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AFD Group
France’s technical cooperation agency Expertise France became part of Agence Française de Développement Group on January 1, 2022. With this new addition, along with our private sector subsidiary Propa...
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Secure Power Supply in the Federal Capital
Improving access to electricity is at the core of Nigeria’s development strategy. AFD participates in reinforcing the power transmission network in Abuja, the federal capital of Nigeria.
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Improve public transport in Lagos metropolitan area
Lagos is the biggest city in Africa, but its transport infrastructure is insufficiently developed. AFD contributes to strengthening the public transport system of the metropolitan area.
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Improving access to electricity by extending power grids and electrifying rural areas
Access to electricity is a political priority in Niger, with the objective of supplying 100 new towns a year. To achieve this objective, AFD is financing the extension of NIGELEC’s distribution grids....
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Supporting Wuhan’s transition to a low-carbon model with the energy refit of public buildings
In Wuhan, AFD is supporting a project aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions through better management of energy consumption in public buildings.
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Optimizing urban heating in Taiyuan and Jinzhong for low-carbon development
This project was launched in 2010 and has supported Shanxi Province in its efforts to decouple urban growth from greenhouse gas emissions. It has also fostered reflection on heating sector reform.
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Railway line to link the tourist cities of Dali and Lijiang
The project was co-financed with the Asian Development Bank and connected the cities of Lijiang and Dali to the Yunnan railway network. This has helped to open up this isolated area, reduce the costs...
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Recovering forest residue to heat a district of Yichun
Heilongjiang Province in northeast China is pursuing renewable energy and recovering wood residue by building a biomass cogeneration power plant. AFD is providing support and assistance for this proje...
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