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Cultural and Creative Industries - 2020 Activity Report
Cultural and creative industries (CCIs) are a powerful catalyst for fostering inclusive local development. They are also a useful tool for promoting the French language and for strengthening freedom o...
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Gender Equality - 2019-2020 Activity Report
Gender equality contributes to accelerating development. Women’s rights and their empowerment are central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and are priorities for AFD. A key actor in F...
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Eurasia - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy
Based in Istanbul, the Eurasia regional office incorporates four AFD agencies (Belgrade, Istanbul, Tbilisi, Tashkent) covering twelve countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Alb...
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In the Sahel, real economic and social development
Fragility and conflict are the main lenses through which Sahelian issues are most often viewed. However, the crystallization of the debate around these issues, real as they are, leads to a narrowing o...
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Supporting sustainable development: AFD’s offer to SOEs
State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) play a key role in the access to public services and implementation of public policies especially in sectors related to infrastructure such as energy, water and transpor...
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The Public Payment Guarantee
The AFD Group supports the development of inclusive and resilient infrastructure in the countries where it operates. Such infrastructure ensures access for populations to essential goods and services...
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AFD Group and Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is a Central Asian country with fertile valleys, deserts and mediumsized mountains, and a dynamic economy. It faces great challenges to ensure sustainable growth, benefiting the entire popu...
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2020 Sustainable Development Goals Bond Reporting
After having first defined a climate bond framework in 2017, in 2020, the AFD Group prepared an issuance Framework that is aligned with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This Framework was prepare...
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AFD group partner of a 100% renewable Caribbean
In line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out by the UN in 2015, AFD Group supports local energy transition initiatives in the Caribbean, both through public policy dialogue and suppor...
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AFD and the Support Fund for Feminist Organizations (FSOF)
Announced in 2019 by the President of the French Republic and launched on July 15, 2020, the Support Fund for Feminist Organizations (FSOF) aims to support feminist civil society organizations in part...
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3 questions to Mar Meritat Blat, gender expert at AFD
The Generation Equality Forum (FGE) opens today in Paris. 26 years after the Beijing Declaration, this event will bring together civil society, states, international organizations, the private sector,...
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3 questions to Fawzia Baba-Aissa in charge of the development of the Women's Fund in the Mediterranean area
On the occasion of the Generation Equality Forum which opened on June 30, 2021 in Paris, discover the gender issues in North Africa and the Middle East with Fawzia Baba-Aissa, development officer at t...
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3 questions to Carla Gutiérrez from the Gregoria Apaza Women's Promotion Center in Bolivia
On the occasion of the Generation Equality Forum which opened on June 30, 2021 in Paris, meeting with Carla Gutiérrez from the Gregoria Apaza Center for the Promotion of Women. Based in El Alto, Boliv...
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Continuous water supply: a decisive factor in the fight against cholera
Around 2.4 billion cases of diarrhoeal disease were recorded globally in 2015, causing approximately 500,000 deaths among children under five. Over 60% of these deaths were attributed to poor access t...
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Biodiversity - 2020 Activity Report
In 2020, AFD committed €565 million for biodiversity, i.e. 4.4% of Group commitments. This volume of commitments has increased significantly compared to 2019. Eighty-three per cent of the Group’s comm...
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Inequality Trends and Diagnostics In Kenya 2020
This report is a joint publication produced by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in partnership with the Eastern Africa research node of the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Re...
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Southern Africa - 2021-2025 Regional Strategy
Based in Johannesburg, AFD’s Southern African regional office covers South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Despite its cultural, histo...
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TCFD (Task-Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure) Report
The Task-Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) aims to improve corporate climate-related financial transparency. It encourages companies to disclose information on how climate-related o...
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Developing Countries’ Macroeconomic Exposure to the Low-carbon Transition
This paper aims at providing estimates of countries’ macroeconomic exposures to the low-carbon transition. We develop a method to evaluate countries’ external, fiscal and socio-economic exposure, and,...
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