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A health center in Koné to improve healthcare provision in the North
New Caledonia has decided to optimize and complete its healthcare facilities in the North by launching the construction of a health center in Koné, in a rapidly expanding area.
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Improving national power transmission infrastructure
AFD is providing its financial support for the rehabilitation and upgrading of 10 of the substations of Tanesco, the national electricity operator. The aim is to improve the energy efficiency of Tanza...
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Contributing to the development of the power grid in the north of the country
AFD is supporting the development of the power line between Geita and Nyakanazi, a line which will facilitate the extension of the power grid in Northwest Tanzania and the grid connection to the Rusum...
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Calls for projects
Find out about AFD Group’s calls for projects and the managers of AFD-funded programs
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Frequently Asked Questions
All the answers to your questions about AFD Group What is the role of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group? How is it funded? Who benefits from its actions? Find all the answers to the mos...
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Boosting the potential of the blue economy in Sri Lanka: conservation of the shoreline, beaches and waves
The main objective of the "Boosting the potential of the blue economy in Sri Lanka: conservation of the shoreline, beaches and waves" project is to contribute to the preservation of coastal biodiversi...
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Research at AFD
Climate change, biodiversity, inequality – our research contributes to analyzing the major global challenges we face today. Because anticipating and understanding better means acting more effectively....
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Burkina Faso
A partner of Burkina Faso for sixty years, AFD supports the education and training sectors, water and sanitation, energy, local development, and agriculture. In response to the security and humanitari...
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Ghana
Between 2008 and 2017, AFD invested more than 700 million euros in Ghana. These are funds dedicated for the promotion of high developmental impact projects: improvement of living conditions, reduction...
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Developing the energy rehabilitation of commercial buildings
In order to promote the improvement of energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy in tertiary buildings in Thailand, AFD is supporting the local Kasikorn Bank to develop this market segment.
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Developing hydropower in Himachal Pradesh
AFD is assisting the Indian government with its objective of increasing the share of renewable energies in its energy mix. The objective: ensure the country’s energy security, while taking advantage o...
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The highest photovoltaic power plant in the world
The Bolivian government is transforming its electricity mix in favor of renewable energies. AFD is supporting this project through the construction of a photovoltaic solar power plant. The objective:...
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Widen credit access for SMEs in Nigeria
Only few Nigerian SMEs have access to formal financing, despite the fact that they are essential to economic diversification. AFD supports the establishment of the Development Bank of Nigeria, so they...
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Sludge treatment at the East Alexandria wastewater treatment plant
The project aims to build a sludge treatment unit at the East Alexandria wastewater treatment plant. This type of unit would be the first in Egypt outside Cairo and could act as a catalyst by encourag...
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Credit Line to National Bank of Egypt to facilitate access to credit for SMEs
AFD is making a EUR 30m credit line available to the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) for the development of lending activity to SMEs (mesofinance) and to build the bank’s skills in this business segment.
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Credit Line to the African Export-Import Bank
AFD has made a EUR 100m credit line available to the African Export-Import Bank (AFREXIMBANK) to support its activities to transform Africa’s trade structure.
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Construction of a 200 MW wind farm on the west coast of the Gulf of Suez
In October 2015, AFD allocated a EUR 50m sovereign loan to the Egyptian State to cofinance the construction of a 200 MW wind farm set up by the Egyptian renewable energies authority.
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Supporting the improvement in Cairo’s urban transport
Cairo is a high-density megacity with 20 million inhabitants. Their 24 million daily motorized trips are mainly made on deteriorated public transport, except for the metro which is extremely efficient...
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A new control center for the automated power grid in the Delta region
AFD has allocated EUR 50m of financing to the public power transmission operator in Egypt to finance the construction and equipment of a power grid control center in order to improve the efficiency of...
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Extension of the natural gas network: Connection of 1.5 million households in Egypt
In order to increase access for populations to clean and secure energy, the Government is implementing, with AFD’s support, a program to connect 1.5 million households to natural gas, which is locally...
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