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Rehabilitation of rural roads to open up agricultural areas
Three million people will have improved access to health centres and schools, as well as access to markets for their agricultural products, through the rehabilitation of several hundred kilometres of...
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Expansion and Rehabilitation of Nairobi International Airport
In order to support Kenyan economic growth and make Nairobi airport the gateway to East Africa, AFD is supporting the Kenya Airport Authority in the necessary increase in its reception capacity and mo...
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Water Finance Coalition
The Water Finance Coalition gathers national and international public development banks to improve the financing of the water and sanitation sector. It’s part of an effort to improve people’s quality...
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Water supply program in secondary cities
Since 2015, AFD has been supporting the Water Resources Development Fund (WRDF) in the implementation of a mechanism to replenish the fund (aka ‘revolving fund’), which is used to improve water and sa...
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Argentina
The building of meaningful partnerships has enabled AFD Group to support Argentina since 2017 in its energy, ecological, social, and civic transition. AFD works in consultation with the Argentine gove...
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Support for high-quality vocational training centres in Vietnam
This is the second AFD project in the vocational training sector. This project aims to renovate five schools using both tangible and intangible investment (construction, equipment and technical assist...
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Sharing and better distributing the capricious waters of the Red River
AFD is addressing the devastating dangers of climate change in the Mekong Delta regions by helping the region better protect densely populated territories from climate excesses, particularly floods, i...
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Reinforcing Ethiopia’s domestic power grid
Since 2010, AFD has been accompanying the public electricity utility, Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), in reinforcing the domestic power grid. A €50m loan was allocated in 2011 for the construction of...
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Upgrading the Ethiopian Airlines Training Center
Since 2009, AFD has been supporting the national airline, Ethiopian Airlines, in extending and upgrading its training center.
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New freight terminal at the Addis Ababa Airport
Since 2013, AFD has been supporting the national airline, Ethiopian Airlines, in the construction of a new airport terminal for freight. It is designed to receive a capacity of 600,000 tons of freight...
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WInd energy generaton to promote low-carbon growth
A project that aims to increase the share of energies from renewable sources in the national energy mix, ultimately reducing CO2 emissions
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Transforming cities, strengthening social cohesion and reducing the carbon footprint
AFD is financing the City of Johannesburg’s spatial transformation strategy, which is based on a more inclusive, more compact and low-carbon development model.
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Support to the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA)
AFD has been supporting the development and structuring of the microfinance sector since the early 1990s. After rapid development in the 2000s, the sector now faces a high systemic risk. This project...
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SUNREF: An AFD Group Green Finance Label
SUNREF, an AFD Group green finance label, helps economic actors in developing and emerging countries seize the opportunities offered by energy and environmental transitions and encourages local financ...
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Supporting rural development in the provinces of Binh Dinh and Hung Yen
AFD is contributing to increasing agricultural production in the two provinces of Binh Dinh and Hung Yen by financing the construction of water networks and building the water resources management cap...
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Supporting digital resilience in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Led by Agence Française de Développement and the Belgian development agency ENABEL and funded by the European Commission, the program supports the use of digital technologies to build more resilient s...
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Nigeria
Representing the largest population in Africa and a leading economic force in the Gulf of Guinea and West Africa, Nigeria is a pivotal emerging economy. Present in the country since 2008, AFD has beco...
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Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Government of Albania signed a EUR 120 million policy-based lo...
In the framework of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama’s official visit to Paris, AFD and the Government of Albania have materialized a new milestone of their action-oriented partnership. They committed...
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France and Albania strengthen cooperation in environmental protection
As part of the official visit of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama to Paris and his meeting with President Emmanuel Macron, Albania and France are strengthening their cooperation on sustainable develop...
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Agence française de développement (AFD) and the World Bank Group strengthen strategic partnership to address g...
Paris, April 30, 2024 – The Agence française de développement (AFD) and the World Bank Group have reaffirmed their commitment to collaboration through the signing of a Strategic Partnership Memorandum...
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