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AFD and solar energy
Levier essentiel de la transition énergétique et de la lutte contre le changement climatique, les énergies renouvelables – l’énergie solaire en particulier – sont aussi de formidables vecteurs de déve...
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Panorama 2018 - AFD Group Annual Report
AFD is the leading actor in France’s development policy. We commit to projects that genuinely improve the everyday lives of people, both in developing and emerging countries and in the French overseas...
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AFD Group's Corporate Social Responsibility Policy 2018-2022
The future of the planet – a prerequisite for the survival of humankind – implies a shared responsibility, as expressed by States in New York in 2015 with the adoption of the Sustainable Development G...
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AFD Group 2018-2023 Strategy
International development-policy goals have changed radically over the past two years with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change. In turn, France now aims...
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Waste, how much does it cost?
The French Development Agency (AFD), along with Le Mans University, the Gevalor Association, Urbananalyse, and ALBWaste, conducted the ORVA2D (Organisation for Waste Recycling in Developing Cities) re...
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Climate Finance, reviving the spirit of COP 21
Three years after COP21, as we witness on a daily basis the devastating effects of climate change and the urgent need to increase ambition, climate finance issues come back strongly at the surface, wi...
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AFD and Southern Africa
The Johannesburg-based regional office for Southern Africa covers AFD’s activities in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. AFD’s par...
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Southern Africa: Energy transition
Southern Africa has access to a wealth of primary renewable energy sources, with enough geothermal, hydro, wind and solar resources to provide gigawatts of power. However, the adoption of low-carbon t...
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Southern Africa: Biodiversity
Southern Africa has a rich natural heritage of global significance to the world’s climate and biological diversity. Unfortunately, the capacity of nature to maintain this biological wealth is rapidly...
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Southern Africa: Infrastructure
Southern Africa has some of the most developed infrastructure in the continent. However, the region still faces numerous challenges, such as insufficient energy supply, highly priced and unpredictable...
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Southern Africa: Research and development
Research is a fundamental first step toward designing successful development projects, as it gives important insights into the political, socio-economic and environmental context in which projects wil...
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Southern Africa: Social inclusion
Access to education, healthcare, decent housing and employment are fundamental to human dignity, and are key to achieve poverty eradication. In Southern Africa, although poverty rates fell by almost h...
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AFD and Mozambique
Present in the country since 1981, AFD is a long-term partner of Mozambique. For nearly 40 years, AFD has continuously supported the country in its efforts to improve basic infrastructure, preserve bi...
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Pure water in Gaza
The North Gaza Emergency Sewage Treatment (NGEST) is now complete after 13 years of work. This wastewater treatment facility in the northern part of Gaza (Beit Lahia), essential for the population, wa...
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Anne Odic : Cities have a role to play in the fight against the climate change
Cities have an absolutely essential role to play in the fight against climate change. Anne Odic, Head of cities division at AFD explains it in a few minutes.
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AFD and Laos
Laos is a mountainous and landlocked country but it does not lack assets. For some fifteen years, the country’s economic activity has been very strong, driven by an economic model based mainly on the...
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AFD and Cameroon
Located at the crossroads of West and Central Africa, Cameroon has historically been one of AFD Group’s main countries of intervention. Most recently, AFD has supported Cameroon through major infrastr...
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AFD and Nigeria
AFD began its activities in Nigeria 12 years ago and is now one of the country’s rightful partners. Its unique position as a bilateral lender for varied financing solutions enables it to contribu...
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One Planet Summit: what results?
Nine months after the first summit in Paris, members of the One Planet coalition are meeting again this Wednesday, September 26 in New York to take stock of the progress of their commitments. The oppo...
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Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments
We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers are allowed to form matches (jobs) that can be formal or informal. Workers optimally choose the level of schooling acquired before enteri...
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