Publications and media
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 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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Evaluation Summary - Budget support to the forestry sector in Turkey
In Turkey, the budget support to the forestry sector was subject to an evaluation in July 2018. The budget support was granted in the context of the opening of chapter 27 of the pre-accession negot...
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Evaluation Summary - Development of the Ninh Thuan irrigation system, Vietnam
In Vietnam, for the “Irrigation” sector, the development of the Ninh Thuan irrigation system was subject to an evaluation in July 2018. The province of Ninh Thuan, which suffers from extremely dry...
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Laos: Managing our bamboo forest for a better life
Houaphan is a mountainous province in northern Laos forested with a high diversity of bamboo species and non-timber forest products. These resources, if well managed and used, have a strong potential...
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Climate - 2017 Activity Report
The climate is today the identity marker of the AFD group. In 2018, this already strong orientation was reinforced by the adoption of a new climate strategy (2017-2022), which reflects AFD's ambition...
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Poinsettia Assembly and Selling Emotion: High Value Agricultural Exports in Ethiopia
We examine how investment in high-value agriculture can help to address the balance of payments constraint on growth and the wage employment challenge in Ethiopia while accelerating structural change....
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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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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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The Challenges of Energy Transition in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Agence française de développement (AFD), Global Development Network (GDN), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), École française d’Extrême-O...
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India - 2017-2021 Strategy
With a total net commitment of almost EUR 1.5bn since the opening of AFD’s India agency in 2008 and annual commitments of around EUR 250m since 2013,27 activities in India represent, nearly a quarter...
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AFD and sport: a vehicle for social cohesion and equity
Sport is a valuable tool for helping achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It contributes to peace, education, gender equality and health and opens up new horizons for development actors, in part...
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Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa
Despite economic growth and improvements in many dimensions of welfare, poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa (Africa hereafter). Approximately two people in five li...
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