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With just months to go to the Paris Olympics, we chart AFD’s work in Sports & Development
The countdown is on to 26 July, 2024. With just months to go before next year's Olympic Games begin in Paris, it’s time to take stock of AFD’s initiatives involving sports and development, particularl...
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Oceans: A New System to Protect Marine Biodiversity in Argentina - and Beyond
With 5,000 km of coastline, Argentina is working towards establishing, for the first time, a national system to monitor the abundant coastal and marine biodiversity around the country and beyond. By k...
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Civil Society Organizations and AFD: an Evolving Partnership
At a geopolitically and environmentally unstable time with the eruption of countless crises, cooperation between AFD and civil society organizations (CSOs) is more important than ever. CSOs have becom...
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Congo: Facilitating Access to Water – and Measuring the Benefits
For the past several years, the PILAEP project has backed the instalment of standpipes to facilitate access to drinking water in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's greater Kinshasa area. A project...
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Young People Entering Morocco’s Industrial Ecosystem via Public-Private Partnerships
Morocco has been developing a professional training system to better serve the needs of its industrial sector. A recent evaluation of such AFD-backed programs laud their success in the recruitment of...
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Holistic Forest Conservation in Madagascar: Is it Working?
The lush forests of Madagascar are home to a bewildering variety of wildlife and biodiversity. But they are threatened by deforestation and the destruction of natural habitats. The Holistic Forest Con...
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Honing Training Programs in Senegal to Boost Key Employment Sectors
One of the central challenges facing developing and middle-income economies is matching their educational and training sectors to employment markets. AFD has been supporting Senegal set up vocational...
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Protecting Biodiversity: the Key Role of Indigenous Communities
Worldwide, an estimated 400 to 500 million Indigenous people occupy 20% of the earth’s territory. Yet unsustainable development has caused not only the displacement of countless people, but also the d...
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Sports, Education and Training Together in Togo
As a key player in the education sector in Togo, AFD recently participated alongside the country’s Education Ministry in the final phases of the school and university sports championships. More than 8...
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AFD and World Bank Support Serbia’s Green Agenda to the tune of €234 Million
The public policy loans in support of green recovery as well as the support program for the modernization of the railway sector were signed today at the premises of the government of the Republic of S...
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AFD to extend its cooperation with Uzbekistan by 2025
By 2025, AFD plans to mobilize about one billion euros in the form of loans, technical assistance and grants to support the reform agenda of the Government of Uzbekistan.
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New project to boost wildlife management in Southern Africa
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) will support the development of community conservancies in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfronti...
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AFD and Kazakhstan pave the way for their mutual cooperation
By materializing the cooperation between AFD and the Republic of Kazakhstan, a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding will create favorable conditions for first AFD operations in the country.
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EBRD and AFD Group to strengthen cooperation
Addressing key development challenges in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Agence Française de Développement Group (AFD), through it...
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Call for Projects from African Entrepreneurs: The Social and Inclusive Business Camp
The Social & Inclusive Business Camp (SIBC) is committed to supporting impact entrepreneurs and is launching its fifth call for applications open to project initiators from all over Africa. Apply befo...
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AFD Committed, Alongside the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, to the Teaching of French in Rwan...
On May 27, in the context of the visit of the President of the French Republic to Rwanda, Mr. Rémy Rioux, Director General of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Ms. Louise Mushikiwabo, Franco...
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AFD Continues to Support Rwanda's Covid-19 Response
On May 27, on the sidelines of the visit of the President of the French Republic to Rwanda, Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana, Minister of Economy and Economic Planning of Rwanda, and Mr. Rémy Rioux, Director Ge...
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AFD Supports the Policy of Sports Excellence in Schools in Rwanda
On May 27, during the official visit of the President of the French Republic to Rwanda, Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana, Minister of Economy and Economic Planning of Rwanda, and Mr. Rémy Rioux, Director Genera...
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AFD Signs an MoU With TRACE Global and Senghor University
Agence Française de Développement (AFD), TRACE Global and the Senghor University met in Johannesburg today to sign a Memorandum of Understanding. The three signatories will collaborate on a project to...
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AFD and INCA Portfolio Managers sign agreement to finance public services in intermediate cities
Johannesburg, 29 May 2021. Agence Française de Développement (AFD), INCA Portfolio Managers (IPM) and the Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO) met in Pretoria today to sign a financial a...
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