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French Overseas Territories: 5 key points on AFD Group's operations
AFD Group is a long-standing partner of France’s Overseas Territories, where it has been working for over eighty years. The Group’s financing helps improve the living conditions of people in Overseas...
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Khadija Bourass: boosting biodiversity in Morocco through bird conservation
Through her work leading GREPOM, an NGO for bird conservation in Morocco, Khadija Bourass resolutely defends Moroccan biodiversity. She advocates for wildlife and wetlands, with the conviction that wh...
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Cape Town and AFD: an exemplary partnership for sustainable coastal resilience
As part of the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC), the Deputy Mayor of Cape Town, Eddie Andrews, explains the concrete progress made through the long-term partnership between his city and AFD (Agence Françai...
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COP28: How the "Financial Gap" is Hindering Adaptation to Climate Change
Countries are mobilizing to adapt to climate change, but those most affected are least equipped to cope. Current climate financing falls short of urgent needs tied to adaptation, mitigation and compen...
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The Clean Oceans Initiative reaches two thirds of its 5-year financing target and expands with CDP and ICO as...
Today at the IMF/World Bank Group meetings, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and KfW acting on behalf of the German Federal Government reported significa...
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Fak’ugesi Festival 2020: A virtual feast of Africa’s best creative digital workshops, talks, pitches and digit...
Wits University’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct and Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg will run their Fak’ugesi Digital Innovation Festival 2020 programme live and online for one month fro...
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South Africa: International infrastructure partnership formalised
The Department of Local Government in the Western Cape and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at addressing the backlog in the investment in infrastructure...
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Signing of the “Energy Climate” Policy Based Loan between the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and AFD
On the 24th of August 2020, The Republic of Uzbekistan and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have signed an “Energy Climate” Policy Based Loan in co-financing with the Asian Development Bank (AD...
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Sustainable finance: Success of AFD's first SDG Bond issue for a total of 2 billion euros
After issuing climate bonds in 2014, AFD announced on 21 October that it had issued the first bond under its new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework, ahead of the "Finance in...
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France releases 25 million euros to help the housing and health sectors and aid economic recovery after the Au...
The Ambassador of France to Lebanon, Anne Grillo, chaired, on 5 November 2020, a signing ceremony for projects funded by France in response to the August 4 blast.
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Water stress in North Africa: The French Development Agency and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory sign a new pa...
Signature of a new partnership between the French Development Agency and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory for the establishment of a regional initiative: “Water Stress and Climate Change in North Afri...
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France grants €4 million towards key health projects in Sudan, through the Agence Française de Développement
On November 8, H.E. Mrs. Emmanuelle Blatmann, French Ambassador to Sudan, added her signature to two financing agreements between the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Save the Children Fund (Un...
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Finance in Common Summit: The development and sport worlds join forces for the “Sport for Development Coalitio...
Today Public Development Banks are launching a “Sport for Development Coalition” in close collaboration with the world of sport. Members are committed to mobilizing their financial resources, investme...
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Finance in Common Summit: Official launch of Sport en Commun”, the first digital platform in Africa for fundin...
Within the framework of the "Finance in Common" Summit, the African Sport en Commun platform was officially launched today in the presence of development and sport stakeholders mobilized to achieve th...
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Finance in Common Summit AFD is mobilizing €3 million to strengthen the structure and development of the Cais...
During the Finance in Common Summit, Agence Française de Développement announced support for the structuring of the Caisses des Dépôts et Consignations in Africa. It is entrusting a €3 million grant t...
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AFD and AADFI sign a first agreement to promote the key role of African development banks in achieving the SD...
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) have just signed a first partnership agreement for the achievement of the Sustainable De...
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Climate finance, post-Covid19 recovery: AFD and BOAD strengthen their strategic cooperation
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the West African Development Bank (BOAD) have decided to strengthen their operational partnership by signing a new framework agreement. A new stage in their...
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Finance in Common Summit – $150 million for family farming in Angola
On the sidelines of the Finance in Common Summit, IFAD and AFD have signed a co-financing agreement to mobilize $150 million to help family farms in Angola cope with climate change.
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AFD, DBSA and Proparco renew their partnership through the Memorandum of Understanding for 2020 to 2025 to sup...
The Development Bank of Southern Africa Limited (DBSA), and the Agence Francaise de Développement Group (AFD and Proparco), will sign a renewed Memorandum of Understanding, during the Finance in Commo...
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