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Infographic - Our activity to support agriculture, rural development and biodiversity in 2024
In 2024, AFD Group made significant commitments to agriculture, rural development and biodiversity, amounting to €1.7 billion. AFD’s investments focused in particular on agricultural sectors, climate...
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Opportunities to address inequality in transition
South Africa has high levels of persistent, structural inequality. Social ownership has remerged in recent years as an opportunity to address inequality, particularly in the context of the just transi...
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Uganda: Microfinance Boosts Businesses
AFD is committed to enhancing financial inclusion for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda through its partnership with Pride Microfinance. This collaboration improves access to essenti...
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Changes in Temperature and Rainfall Extremes in Vietnam under Progressive Global Warming Levels from 1.5ºC t...
This study analyzes projected climate extremes in Vietnam using 33 statistically downscaled CMIP6 models across global warming levels (GWLs) from 1.5°C to 4°C. Results reveal significant regional chan...
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A Guideline to Using Administrative Data
South Africa is undergoing the early stages of an energy transition away from coal. A planned transition requires social protection policy interventions to mitigate potential negative employment impac...
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Leveraging International Trade for the Ecological Transition: Quantifying the Drivers of Planetary Boundaries
Using a multi-regional input-output database, we calculate environmental footprints embodied in trade relations related to the different planetary boundaries for different countries and economic activ...
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How are AFD and EU improving grain storage in Egypt?
In a global context marked by tensions, food security is a strategic priority for Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer. To address this dependency and strengthen its resilience, AFD is supporting...
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AFD Group strengthens its partnership with the Aga Khan Foundation
AFD Group and the Aga Khan Foundation have signed an ambitious partnership to support coastal populations and ecosystems in the Indian Ocean.
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Coastal land subsidence in West Africa: an overlooked threat? The case of Lagos and the Volta Delta
Lagos and the Ghana’s Volta Delta face significant downward vertical land motion, a phenomenon called land subsidence, compounding sea-level rise. Several stressors drive subsidence rates of several m...
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80 years of the UN: AFD and the 'discreet certainty' of our partnership
Founded in 1945, four years after Agence Française de Développement (AFD), then known as the "Caisse Centrale de la France Libre", the United Nations shares with AFD a rich history in support of susta...
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8 things to know about Overseas Development Assistance
Official Development Assistance (ODA) refers to all funding provided by public authorities in higher-income countries to improve living conditions in low- and middle-income countries. However, its sco...
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Improving healthcare systems, an interview with Christophe Paquet
A lack of medicine, water and electricity; shortages of doctors; prohibitive costs: they all stand in the way of providing good quality healthcare to all. The World Health Organization estimates that...
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Madagascar: combating sex tourism
In Madagascar, thousands of young people are driven to engage in prostitution as a means of survival. The country remains vulnerable to child sex tourism, an issue that the Government of Madagascar an...
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5 challenges for employment in developing countries
Between mass unemployment, poor working conditions, wage gaps, discrimination and other concerns, finding a job can be a challenge, and having one does not guarantee decent living conditions, particul...
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A ray of hope for street children in the Philippines
In Manila, between 250,000 and 1 million children live in the streets, left to fend for themselves. To offer them hope for a better future and improve their living conditions, four NGOs are mobilizing...
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5 lesser-known benefits of sport
Sport is good for our health, but not only! It is also a tremendous tool for peace, social inclusion and gender equality. Here's an overview.
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These 12 Indian cities are the future of sustainable urban development
In 2018, the Government of India, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union (EU) launched the City Investments To Innovate, Integrate and Sustain (CITIIS) program, which invited I...
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The sustainable valuation of the Congo Basin forests: A real possibility?
Spanning some 268 million hectares across Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic, and Equatorial Guinea, the forests of the Co...
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Reducing Inequalities: Insights from the EU-AFD Research Facility
In this summary, find more information about the lessons learned, tools, and partnerships developed within the framework of the EU-AFD Facility for Research on Inequalities between 2020 and 2025.
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Beyond Redistribution: Market Power, Firm Structure, and the South African Labour Market
This paper examines how firm structure and market power shape inequality in South Africa. Moving beyond a narrow focus on fiscal redistribution, it introduces a pre-distribution lens that highlights t...
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