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Mauritania: “Quality maternal health requires blood transfusion capability”
In Nouakchott, the new National Blood Transfusion Center marks a turning point in the fight against maternal mortality. With postpartum hemorrhage the leading cause of maternal deaths in Mauritania, a...
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The IDBio Project: transforming biosourced wastes for more sustainable industries
The IDBio project, supported by the Academia Partnerships Africa-France Program (PeA), responds to a growing challenge in Africa: the development of renewable resources and sustainable waste managemen...
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French Overseas Territories: 5 key points on AFD Group's operations
AFD Group is a long-standing partner of France’s Overseas Territories, where it has been working for over eighty years. The Group’s financing helps improve the living conditions of people in Overseas...
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Khadija Bourass: boosting biodiversity in Morocco through bird conservation
Through her work leading GREPOM, an NGO for bird conservation in Morocco, Khadija Bourass resolutely defends Moroccan biodiversity. She advocates for wildlife and wetlands, with the conviction that wh...
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How AFD takes action worldwide to protect the oceans
Having invested more than €4 billion in ocean-related projects since 2020, AFD works to preserve the oceans’ ecological health and reconcile their many uses by humankind.
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Cape Town and AFD: an exemplary partnership for sustainable coastal resilience
As part of the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC), the Deputy Mayor of Cape Town, Eddie Andrews, explains the concrete progress made through the long-term partnership between his city and AFD (Agence Françai...
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COP28: How the "Financial Gap" is Hindering Adaptation to Climate Change
Countries are mobilizing to adapt to climate change, but those most affected are least equipped to cope. Current climate financing falls short of urgent needs tied to adaptation, mitigation and compen...
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Response to the Covid-19 crisis: France supports the resilience of the most vulnerable households and youth in...
On December 4, Mrs Anna Getaneh, Founder and President Ethiopian Children Fund (ECF) and Mrs. Valérie Tehio, Ethiopia country Director of the French Development Agency (AFD), signed a financing agreem...
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A 20 Million Euros grant to support the expansion and rehabilitation of municipal wastewater collection and tr...
The French Development Agency (AFD) and the Jordanian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC) signed two grant agreements in Amman for a total amount of 20.3 million euros.
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Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation and AFD launch Film on Egypt-France Partnership
Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation (MoiC), in collaboration with the French Development Agency, released a 60 seconds short visual film celebrating Fourteen years of AFD-Egypt partnership...
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AFD signs a 500k€ grant agreement with the National Planning Commission to support the Ministry of Public Ente...
National Planning Commission (NPC) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed today an agreement for the implementation of a project benefiting to the Namibian Ministry of Public Enterprises (...
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The UN economic commission for Africa (UNECA) and AFD join forces to support African governments implement the...
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the French Agency for Development (AFD) signed today a partnership agreement aiming at supporting African governments with the implementation of the Debt S...
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European Union and French Development Agency support the construction of the Tanzania – Zambia Interconnector ...
The Country Director of the French Development Agency (AFD), Mrs. Stephanie Mouen, has today signed a grant agreement of EUR 26 million (approximately TZS 73/- billion) with the Ministry of Finance an...
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A 5-million euro grant to the ICRC to help the Rafik Hariri University Hospital cope with COVID-19 in a post-...
Beirut, 17 December 2020: The French Development Agency (AFD) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) signed today a grant agreement of 5 million euros, to serve as additional funding...
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AFD provides EUR 100 million callable funding facility to GuarantCo to further develop its climate change port...
Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the development arm of the French Government, is providing GuarantCo, a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, with a EUR 100 million callabl...
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Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRiT) - The EU funds delegated to AFD increased to EUR 214.8 million for muni...
In the framework of the second tranche of the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRiT 2), AFD signed an agreement with the European Union Delegation to Turkey on December 18, increasing the amount of de...
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One Planet Summit: AFD undertakes to allocate at least 30% of its climate funding to biodiversity
To mark the One Planet Summit dedicated to biodiversity, Agence Française de Développement has set the goal of devoting 30% of its climate funding to efforts to foster biodiversity in 2025 by doubling...
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AFD launches US$ 2 billion 0.625% RegS Benchmark due 22 January 2026
On Thursday 14th January 2021, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), rated AA (S&P) / AA (Fitch) priced a new US$ 2 billion 5-year Reg S Benchmark transaction due 22nd January 2026. This transa...
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What record for the Alliance Sahel after 3 years at the service of the Sahelian populations?
The first results report on the action of the Sahel Alliance, at the end of its 3 years of existence, was officially published on Tuesday 19 January during a digital conference. The conference panel b...
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