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Interview AFD X World Bank: Why development strategy must center on impact
How can development institutions go beyond financing to truly measure their contribution to global transformation? In this podcast, Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive Officer of Agence Française de Développe...
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Protecting Nature and Biodiversity: "Living Things Deserve Rights"
Nature has long been regarded more as an object for use and exploitation than as a living entity worthy of protection. Advocates say we can best protect biodiversity by granting nature rights. Unlike...
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COP28: “Public Development Banks can Rise to the Challenge”
The 28th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP28) will be held from November 30 to December 12, in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The stakes for the planet are immense: from runaway gr...
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School Canteens: Part of “the Biggest Social Protection Plan in the World”
The first global meeting of the School Meals Coalition took place this week, as part of an urgent effort to improve school canteens and expand children’s access to regular, healthy meals. And as we fi...
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Foreign Direct Investment: Scarce for some, Abundant for others
Foreign direct investment (FDI) can indicate the relative attractiveness of emerging and developing countries' economies and their economic trajectories. Given the shocks that have struck economies ar...
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Fighting for Female Farmers in West Africa
In Côte d’Ivoire, two-thirds of rural women work in agriculture, but as many as 75% of them live below the poverty line. They also face physical and other forms of violence. For the past three years,...
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AFD 2026 AI Pre-Summit Program
Building Bridges through AI: Fostering India-Africa-France Dialogue to Advance AI for the Common Good AI Impact Summit 2026 Pre-event hosted by the AFD Group at its Paris Headquarters 28 January 20...
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Panorama of worldwide Climate and Nature solutions: supporting low-carbon, resilient and nature-positive transitions
This new edition of the World Tour of Climate Solutions presents a sample of projects, offering concrete and inspiring responses, financed by AFD Group. This collection invites you to discover a sel...
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L'économie africaine 2026: English version of Introduction & 1st Chapter
Year on year since 2020, L’Économie Africaine has established itself as an essential snapshot of the continent’s major challenges, offering nuanced, data-driven analysis unfettered by accepted ideas....
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Central Africa Regional Office
At the heart of the African continent, Central Africa has a number of major assets: its young population, more than 120 million hectares of land useful for agriculture and agro-industry, and one of th...
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Africa
Demographic and social, ecological, energy, political, technological transitions… African countries face crucial challenges for their future. AFD has risen to these challenges. With a renewed strategy...
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AFD Successfully issued their first benchmark of the year, a new €2 billion sustainable bond maturing on Janua...
Being a Sustainable issuance, the proceeds of the bond will be used to finance/refinance a portfolio of loans that meet the criteria defined in the group’s SDG bond issuance framework.
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In Lebanon, eating healthy at school to learn better
In Lebanon’s public schools, the economic crisis is weakening families and increasing the risk of students dropping out.
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Mexico
Mexico occupies a unique geographic position on the continent, located in North America. As the second-largest Latin American economy after Brazil, the country is committed to multilateralism and is p...
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The Fund for Innovation in Development: innovating against poverty and inequality
The Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) finances solutions with high potential impact on tackling poverty and inequalities in low- and middle-income countries. The Fund is backed up with a rigoro...
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Is Africa really against democracy? L’Éco du monde #9
Angola, Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya… While social movements advocating social, economic, and political demands emerged in several African countries in 2025, Thomas Melonio hosts Ousmane Ndiaye, journalist...
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International solidarity: What impact does it really have? L’Éco du monde #7
As international solidarity policies are being questioned, what can be said about their outcomes and impacts over the past decades? How essential are innovation, experimentation, and evaluation in imp...
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Madagascar: young people mobilized to improve living conditions in Antananarivo
As part of the Lalankely III project, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union are supporting the Urban Municipality of Antananarivo (CUA) in Madagascar to sustainably improve li...
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Concrete progress for public development banks at the UN conference in Seville
Held in Seville, Spain, from June 30 to July 3, the fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) marked a major step forward in international finance, with public development ba...
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CICLIA: Cities and Climate in Africa
Initiated in 2016 by AFD and supported by the European Union and SECO, CICLIA supports African cities in the preparation of low-carbon and resilient urban projects. More specifically, CICLIA funds stu...
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