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Blue Carbon Facility: financing the protection and restoration of marine ecosystems
The Blue Carbon Facility is a program that supports the protection of "blue" carbon (the carbon captured and stored by coastal and marine ecosystems) through pilot projects focused on strengthening kn...
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What's next for investment in the African cultural and creative industries?
As support for African Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) gathers momentum, now is a fitting time to take stock of where we are today and to think ahead to the opportunities and challenges before...
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Skills ecosystem mapping of MSMEs located within the Nkangala District Municipality
This paper examines the skills ecosystem for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nkangala District Municipality (NDM), Mpumalanga—a coal-dependent region central to South Africa’s Just Ener...
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The Impact of the Green Transition on Jobs in South Africa
One of the key issues in policy discussions over addressing climate concerns the ways in which countries need to and can balance the combating of climate change with job creation and economic developm...
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TechTalks: “Unseen and Unheard: How Technology Facilitates Gender-Based Violence and What We Can Do About It”
From harassment to sexual exploitation and forced prostitution, including doxxing (the malicious publication of personal information) and deepfakes (AI-manipulated pornographic imagery), gender-based...
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The SDGs are 10 years old: what progress has been made since 2015?
The ambition of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, is to provide responses to the main global challenges by 2030: poverty, inequa...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Activity Report 2025
At the Presidential Council for International Partnerships (CPPI) convened on April 4, 2025, development policy was reaffirmed as a cornerstone of France’s international engagement, alongside diplomac...
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Data Analytics for a Just Transition. Distributional Impacts of Environmental Policies (Indonesia)
Indonesia’s commitment to the Paris Agreement has placed carbon pricing through taxes and emissions trading at the center of its climate policy. These instruments are designed to reduce greenhouse gas...
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New York Climate Week: AFD joins GeCCo to transform access to electric cooking
Agence française de développement (AFD) announced at the New York Climate Week its membership in the Global eCooking Coalition (GeCCo), an international alliance launched at COP28 to make electric coo...
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Upgrading informal settlements in Kigali
The Kigali Informal Settlement Upgrading Project (KISUP) is a project financed by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union to improve the living conditions of vulnerable comm...
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Climate-resilient local development through the Basket Fund for Pro-Poor Development
Rwanda has achieved some of the highest rates of access to public services in sub‑Saharan Africa. However, rural areas still lag behind urban centers. In many districts, residents face longer travel t...
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Mapping capacity of the labor and training in order to enhance the capacity of human resources in the renewabl...
This study assesses the employment situations in Ninh Thuan province, Vietnam, through the lens of green job criteria, and to identify human resource challenges related to the renewable energy (RE) se...
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Mid-term Evaluation of the Technical Assistance Program in Support to Reforms in the Water, Sanitation, and En...
The overall objective of the project is to strengthen the Lebanese actors in their respective functions as service providers (RWEs and supervision MoEW as well as to support the institutional dialogue...
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Energy Access and Quality Improvement Project
The project supports Rwanda’s national objective of achieving universal electricity access, through investments in grid expansion, improved service reliability, and institutional strengthening. The AF...
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Health in Common Initiative I & II
In response to COVID-19, AFD provided two successive budget supports to strengthen Rwanda’s health system, expand testing and treatment, and protect vulnerable households through social safety nets.
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Evaluation of the Reconstruction & Development of the Potable Water Distribution Service In Mosul, Iraq (CIQ10...
The objective of the project was to ensure the immediate recovery of the water service in Mosul while also ensuring long-term development, offering a pilot for the nexus from humanitarian to developme...
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Digitization of administration and innovations for development
AFD is supporting Rwanda’s digital transformation through the modernization of IT networks in government institutions across the country, the creation of a national GeoHub, and the building of a Drone...
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Strengthening healthcare system resilience for all
AFD supports Rwanda’s health reforms with results-based financing to strengthen primary care, expand the health workforce, and develop climate-resilient facilities, ensuring quality care and access fo...
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Enhancing environmental policies to boost a sustainable energy transition in Vietnam
Vietnam has been enhancing its environment protection legal framework to address challenges in human health protection and ecosystem safeguard, raised by its significant progress in renewable Energy....
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