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Extreme heat in Vietnamese urban areas should be addressed more concretely in climate adaptation plans
Vietnamese fast-growing cities are increasingly affected by extreme heat events due to global warming compounded by the urban heat island (UHI) effect. This trend threatens public health, infrastructu...
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Chad: supporting young women in science and engineering
In Chad, women remain largely underrepresented in science and engineering higher education. Through the PeA-Tchad project, the National Higher Institute of Science and Technology of Abéché (INSTA) has...
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Côte d’Ivoire: Yopougon’s future embodied by women
In Abidjan, the Yopougon district embodies the challenges faced by many large African cities: extreme population density, a predominantly informal economy, and persistent inequalities in access to hea...
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Research at AFD
Climate change, biodiversity, inequality – our research contributes to analyzing the major global challenges we face today. Because anticipating and understanding better means acting more effectively....
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Vietnam’s Future Under A Warming World: The Growing Challenge of Heat Stress
As global warming intensifies, Vietnam is expected to experience more frequent and intense extreme heat events in the coming decades. Designing efficient adaptation strategies in the face of these gro...
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Infographic - Our work with the Support Fund for Feminist Organizations 2024
To support the work of feminist movements under increasing pressure, France is mobilizing its instruments in support of its feminist foreign policy on the international stage. Since 2020, the Support...
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Our diversity commitments
As a French public institution, Agence Française de Développement must be exemplary in terms of diversity and inclusion, one of the essential conditions for its excellence. That’s why AFD promotes the...
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Tristan-Aurel MOULINE
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Associate Chief Executive Officer
Tristan-Aurel Mouline has been Associate Chief Executive Officer of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group since 2025. In this role, he oversees strategy and partnerships, supervises risk manag...
AFD and NBA Africa launch inclusive Basketball Experience for students with disabilities in Kenya
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group, in collaboration with NBA Africa, today launched the Disability Inclusion component of the ongoing Basketball Experience (BE) programme in Kenya at t...
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How do international organizations address the articulation between gender and climate?
It is not prior to the 2010s that the gendered aspects of climate action were comprehensively addressed and started to permeate the climate change agenda through the Conferences of Parties. Over the p...
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Sovereign Credit Ratings in Developing Countries-Regional Biases and Subjectivity Factors
Sovereign credit ratings play a critical role in the international financial system and have a tangible impact on countries’ fiscal, economic, and development trajectories. Nevertheless, the activity...
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البناء المشترك لممارسات البحث العملي: استعراض الخبرات المستخلصة من قطاع الاقتصاد الاجتماعي والتضامني في تونس
لاستكمال هذه المذكرة السياسية، التي تقدّم توصيات قيّمة لجعل البحث-الإجرائي رافعةً حقيقية لتنمية الاقتصاد الاجتماعي والتضامني في تونس، أودّ أن أُبرز ثلاثَ شروط أراها أساسية لضمان استدامة هذا المسار. أ...
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Ecuador: Transformations and adjustment put to the test by a decade of shocks (2015–2025)
Between 2015 and 2025, a series of factors destabilized Ecuador’s economic, social, and political model: declining oil rents; another sovereign default; political instability following the end of the...
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Sophie DERUDDER
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Acting Executive Director of Campus AFD
Sophie Derudder is a graduate of Telecom SudParis (2005) and holds a master’s degree in public management jointly awarded by ENA and Université Paris-Dauphine (2011). From 2005 to 2008, she worked as...
Laurent BIDDISCOMBE
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Director (Appointed on: 05/07/2024), Executive Director for Global Client Solutions at AFD, Board of Directors
AFD and Danish Refugee Council launch €8 million project to support women’s economic resilience and social coh...
As the crisis in Sudan continues to unfold, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has announced a partnership with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), in close collaboration with local feminist or...
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Adama MARIKO
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Secretary General - Finance in Common , Acting Executive Director of the Directorate for Mobilisation, Partnerships and Communication, AFD
Macroeconomic country assessment – Ecuador
Ecuador is one of the 60 countries followed by AFD’s country-risk economists, whose assessments shed light on countries' economic trajectories and macroeconomic and financial situations.
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