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AFD Group Set to Invest Heavily in African Youth
On the heels of last week's New Africa-France Summit, whose aim was to reconstruct the relationship between Africa and France, AFD Group will be honoring the commitments made by the French President,...
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At the New Africa-France Summit, Young Africans Made Their Voices Heard
In Montpellier last week, the New Africa-France Summit introduced a brand new framework for relations between the people of France and Africa, while examining possibilities for the African continent o...
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Tackling Crucial Development issues in Southeast Asia
On 30 September and 1 October, AFD organized an online conference on the theme of "Southeast Asia’s challenges to sustainable and inclusive development". A dozen speakers shared their experience and v...
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The Second Finance in Common Summit: Public Development Banks at a Glance
More than 500 Public Development Banks are expected to convene for the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS), from 19 to 21 October in Rome and online, and hosted by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP). After t...
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Rémy Rioux: "A renaissance among Public Development Banks"
More than 500 Public Development Banks will tackle questions ranging from the pandemic to financing the economic recovery at the second Finance in Common Summit (FICS). Held in Rome from October 19 to...
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Biodiversity Degradation: 3 Risks for Finance
Damage done the environment has an impact beyond the natural world. It poses potential problems to financial institutions and consequently to individual savers and entire economies. Nature and financ...
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Clean Oceans: Setting Sail for Waste-Free Waterways
To combat the proliferation of plastic plaguing the world’s oceans, Agence Française de Développement has teamed up with the European Investment Bank and Germany’s development bank, KfW. Together, the...
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FiCS 2021: A New Database of the World’s 527 Public Development Banks and Financing Institutions Unveiled
A new database providing invaluable information on the world’s Public Development Banks will be presented at the second edition of the Finance in Common Summit this week. It’s a major update to the fi...
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AFD Group Publishes its first TCFD Report on Managing Climate-Related Financial Risks
How to cope with the financial risks associated with climate change? AFD’s new TCFD (Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure) report explains how its activities mitigate the risks and try t...
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Public Development Bank Evaluation and the Sustainable Development Goals
Public Development Banks are privileged partners in matters of development aid. Assessing their work allows AFD to better understand how to make collaboration with these institutions more productive,...
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Public Development Banks in Action: A Progress Report One Year On
In Latin America and the Caribbean, where GDP contracted by 7% in part due to the Covid pandemic, Public Development Banks stepped in to channel some $90 billion in credit. PDBs play a major role at t...
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Everything you wanted to know about COP26, in an SMS exchange
What is COP26? What is at stake? And what will be the role there for AFD? You’ll find the answers in this fictional but informative SMS exchange with Mathilde Bord-Laurans, AFD's Head of the Climate C...
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Following FiCS 2, Development Bank Coalition Ready for the Road Ahead
Hosted in Rome by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), the second edition of the Finance in Common Summit brought together for the second time the whole community of Public Development Banks and stakehold...
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Southern Voices on Global Transitions: Winners of the AFD-GDN Video Contest Announced
The winners of the “Global Transitions, Southern Voices” video contest were announced on October 27. Supported by Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Global Development Network (GDN), the cont...
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Conservation in the Caribbean: “It is essential to pull our resources together to multiply the impacts of our ...
The upcoming conference on COP26 is focusing minds on the increasing urgency of climate change. Islands and coastal countries are among the most vulnerable. That’s why AFD and the French Facility for...
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How two Cities are paving the way for Urban Biodiversity Conservation in India
Urbanization and land use will be key topics tackled at the Cop26 climate summit beginning on Sunday in Glasgow. India, home to some of the world’s most populous cities, is working on modes of urban d...
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Revamping Côte d'Ivoire's Justice System with AFD Support
Since 2012, the Government of Côte d’Ivoire has been engaged in an overhaul of its judicial system – an ambitious program supported by AFD Group. The goal is to strengthen the rule of law, and the fir...
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Cambodia: AFD Commits to Rehabilitate Irrigation Schemes Damaged by last year's Severe Floods
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed an additional loan agreement of €20 million with the Cambodian Ministry of Economy and Finance for the rehabilitation of 17 irrigation schemes damage...
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AFD commits to strengthening Cambodia's air sector
With the construction of Dara Sakor International Airport nearing completion and growth in air travel expected in the coming years, improving air safety has become a key issue for Cambodia. AFD is sup...
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Renewed commitments to tackle climate change in Vietnam
During his visit to COP 26, Vietnamese Prime Minister H.E. Phạm Minh Chính reiterated Vietnam's commitments to green and sustainable growth. On the occasion of his visit to France and to support the c...
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