Publications and media
Governance - 2021 Activity Report
In 2016, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) entrusted AFD with the funding of projects in matters of governance. This mandate has enabled AFD to move into a new area of expertise, one...
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Namma Metro : the lifeline of Bengaluru
AFD is financing the Bengaluru metro project for a total amount of €310 million. A lifeline which is welcomed and enjoyed by Bangaloreans, who face the challenge of traffic jams on a daily basis. Ben...
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Indonesia - 2022-2026 Strategy
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago and the leading power in Southeast Asia. Over the period 2022–2026, the overarching goal of AFD Group’s activity in Indonesia will be to accompany the coun...
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AFD and Cultural and Creative Industries
Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) and the cultural sector as a whole are a powerful lever for socio-economic development. The sector has significant economic potential in AFD’s areas of operation...
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Education, Training, Employment - 2021 Activity Report
Lifelong learning, the acquisition of skills, and access to jobs are the cornerstones of fairer and more sustainable economic and social development (Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 8). In 2021...
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Aquaculture : improving food security in Cambodia
In Cambodia, Ney Srey Pou is preparing her thesis within the framework of the CapFish project, financed by AFD and the European Union. By working on the development of aquaculture and fish farming in...
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E-commerce tax: an opportunity for Africa?
The digital transformation does away with the need for multinational enterprises to be physically present in the countries where they operate. This poses a major challenge in terms of taxation and los...
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AFD Group and Moldova
The Republic of Moldova faces significant geopolitical, economic and social challenges, in a context of multiple crises, while counting on its many assets. AFD Group supports the country in its conver...
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Semestrial Panorama 2022 #2
The rise in commodity prices had already been happening since mid-2020 and is subject to an in-depth analysis in this third issue of the semi-annual MacroDev Panorama. The objective is to place the dr...
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Nature+ Finance: Principles for Tracking Biodiversity and Nature-Positive Finance
AFD Group is committed to fostering nature positive development. Building on more than 20 years of action for biodiversity – by promoting sustainable agriculture, green cities and a sustainable blue e...
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AFD Group and the Public-Private Partnerships
The countries where AFD Group works are experiencing strong growth and urbanization. As a result, they need more inclusive infrastructures and basic services that are structuring for their economies a...
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AFD and Health in Common
Fulfilling France’s commitment to the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, AFD took action starting in April 2020 to address the social and health challenges stemming from the crisis, via our “He...
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Innovation, a driver of sustainable financial systems
Innovation is driving the transition of financial systems in AFD's partner countries, encouraging them to move towards a more sustainable and inclusive development model. The use of digital technology...
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Making financial systems more inclusive and accountable
Financial inclusion gives everyone, everywhere, access to essential and customized financial services. Through its projects worldwide, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has made this theme one o...
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Sunref Palestine- Success Stories
Committed to Palestine’s ecological transition, Sunref Palestine aims at helping private actors to seize the opportunities of energy and environmental transition via facilitated access to green financ...
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Angola: a vital but constrained transformation of the economic model in the run-up to the 2022 elections?
The country is therefore approaching the general elections of August 24, 2022 in a changing economic and political environment. Lourenço, who is running for president, will be able to claim that the e...
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AFD Group Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct
Corruption, in all its forms, is a major obstacle to development. In developing countries, perhaps even more than in developed countries, it has detrimental effects. It deprives the poorest populat...
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Biodiversity - Activity report 2021
Committed to a development reconciled with nature and building on over 20 years of action for biodiversity and the promotion of sustainable agriculture, green cities and a blue economy, AFD Group aims...
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Thinking macroeconomic vulnerabilities in the context of low-carbon transition
The transition to a low-carbon and climate resilient economy is a process of important restructuring of the productive network where sunset industries will decline and sometimes disappear and where su...
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Environmental and Social Complaints Mechanism - 2021 Activity Report
In 2021, Agence Française de Développement continued its commitment to the beneficiaries of its projects by handling the complaints received through its Environmental and Social Complaints Mechanism,...
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Research Conversations replay: Inequalities and environmental changes in the Mekong region
This webinar is part of the conference series 'Research Conversations'.
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