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Finance in Fiji: Backing Businesses and Creating Jobs
In a pioneering program in the Pacific, timely finance is creating gainful employment on the ground. AFD Group and the European Union are supporting Fiji Development Bank with a financial guarantee en...
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Polynesia: Preparing Future Generations for Climate Change with Educational Marine Areas
With island states at grave risk of being submerged by rising waters, it has never been more important to educate young people on the pleasures and perils of the sea, and on the need to find ways to a...
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Haiti: Continuing to Improve Maternal and Child Health Services
Haiti has the highest rates of maternal, child and under-five infant mortality in the Americas. With the country's health sector sorely lacking in trained personnel and financial resources, AFD is bui...
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Mauritius: Africa’s First Multisport Olympic Academy to Train World Class Athletes
A grueling regime of close to four hours of training per day. Coaching in sports ranging from judo to soccer, as well as in nutrition and leadership. It’s all part of a program to train youngsters for...
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Costa Rica: Working together towards Carbon Neutrality
Costa Rica hosts close to 5% of the world's terrestrial flora and fauna – an immense amount for a small South American country one-tenth the size of France. It's also home to a wealth of biodiversity...
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Taxation: a Key Source of Revenue to Finance Development in Africa
Tax is one of the few certainties in life. But governments around the world have a hard time collecting it, and struggle financially as a result. Yet more robust fiscal regimes can raise the revenue n...
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The Pacific Ocean: Working with Island States Vulnerable to Climate Change
Emmanuel Macron made a landmark visit to Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea in July, the first by a French President since Charles de Gaulle. The visit comes as climate change poses enormous risks for count...
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Burundi: the Dedicated Teams helping People Deal with HIV
In Burundi, about 2.9% of the population is HIV-positive, more than four times the global average. Help for those living with the virus can range from providing medical treatment to education and the...
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5 Flagship Projects that are Restoring Nature around the Planet
Close to 40% of the world’s land is degraded, according to the UN, which has made the need to protect biodiversity all the more urgent. AFD Group is convinced that biodiversity conservation and the fi...
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With just months to go to the Paris Olympics, we chart AFD’s work in Sports & Development
The countdown is on to 26 July, 2024. With just months to go before next year's Olympic Games begin in Paris, it’s time to take stock of AFD’s initiatives involving sports and development, particularl...
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Oceans: A New System to Protect Marine Biodiversity in Argentina - and Beyond
With 5,000 km of coastline, Argentina is working towards establishing, for the first time, a national system to monitor the abundant coastal and marine biodiversity around the country and beyond. By k...
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Civil Society Organizations and AFD: an Evolving Partnership
At a geopolitically and environmentally unstable time with the eruption of countless crises, cooperation between AFD and civil society organizations (CSOs) is more important than ever. CSOs have becom...
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Congo: Facilitating Access to Water – and Measuring the Benefits
For the past several years, the PILAEP project has backed the instalment of standpipes to facilitate access to drinking water in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's greater Kinshasa area. A project...
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Young People Entering Morocco’s Industrial Ecosystem via Public-Private Partnerships
Morocco has been developing a professional training system to better serve the needs of its industrial sector. A recent evaluation of such AFD-backed programs laud their success in the recruitment of...
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Holistic Forest Conservation in Madagascar: Is it Working?
The lush forests of Madagascar are home to a bewildering variety of wildlife and biodiversity. But they are threatened by deforestation and the destruction of natural habitats. The Holistic Forest Con...
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Honing Training Programs in Senegal to Boost Key Employment Sectors
One of the central challenges facing developing and middle-income economies is matching their educational and training sectors to employment markets. AFD has been supporting Senegal set up vocational...
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Protecting Biodiversity: the Key Role of Indigenous Communities
Worldwide, an estimated 400 to 500 million Indigenous people occupy 20% of the earth’s territory. Yet unsustainable development has caused not only the displacement of countless people, but also the d...
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Sports, Education and Training Together in Togo
As a key player in the education sector in Togo, AFD recently participated alongside the country’s Education Ministry in the final phases of the school and university sports championships. More than 8...
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Finance in Common Summit 2023: the Progress Made - and the Road Ahead
In the race against time to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, attention is turning to the more than 500 public development banks worldwide. Their involvement is becoming increasingly urg...
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Artificial Intelligence & the Sustainable Development Goals: a New Frontier
Public development banks are taking an interest in AI tools to improve the impact of their funding, starting with AFD, which presented its SDG Prospector in June. For Régis Marodon, Sustainable Financ...
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