Search results
How can nature support resilience planning and climate action in cities?
This policy brief provides feedback on a new rapid approach to identifying (i) climate and natural risks, (ii) potential nature-based solutions (NbS) to address those risks, and (iii) strategies to im...
Publication
Published on
MacroDev N°53 - SEMESTRIAL PANORAMA 2024 #1
Three decades ago, it was believed that the end of the (first) Cold War would herald the “end of history” and the advent of economic globalization dominated by multinational companies, relegating...
Publication
Published on
AGREENFI: Greener agricultural and rural financing
The AGREENFI label encourages banks to play a more active role in financing the agricultural sector. Its specific focus is on family farming, the processing and development of agricultural products, s...
Editorial page
Colombia: Squaring energy transition and fiscal credibility to transform the economy
Despite a robust institutional framework and a broadly sound policy mix, Colombia’s economic model is running out of steam. For over a decade, since the end of the commodities supercycle,growth has be...
Publication
Published on
SEMESTRIAL PANORAMA 2025 #1
As we move into 2025, the legitimacy of the world order inherited from the fall of the Iron Curtain is confronted more than ever with the “ambivalent superpower” of the United States, already describe...
Publication
Published on
Public Payment Guarantees: mitigating the risk of payment defaults by public entities
Public Payment Guarantees (PPGs) facilitate State mobilization of private expertise and investment in development projects by limiting the risk incurred by the private sector. It can be mobilized for...
Editorial page
Guarantees: instruments to mobilize local resources
AFD Group offers its clients guarantees designed to facilitate access to financing for small businesses and microfinance institutions by reducing the risk borne by local banks when providing loans. Th...
Editorial page
Georgia: Put to the test by the war in Ukraine
A small Western Asian country, Georgia has an outward-looking economic model,mainly based on services such as trade and tourism. The Georgian economy is thus highly vulnerable to external shocks and w...
Publication
Published on
Research Conversations replay: Coastal areas of the Gulf of Guinea faced with relative sea-level rise
This webinar is part of the conference series 'Research Conversations'.
Publication
Published on
FEXTE: a cooperation and project preparation instrument
The Fund for Technical Expertise and Experience Transfers (FEXTE) finances technical expertise in the form of feasibility and project preparation studies in countries that receive ODA.
Editorial page
Research at AFD
Climate change, biodiversity, inequality – our research contributes to analyzing the major global challenges we face today. Because anticipating and understanding better means acting more effectively....
Editorial page
Biodiversity Partners Program: acting together for nature
The Biodiversity Partners Program (BIPP), led by the AFD Campus, assists public, private and non-profit entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs with the implementation of their projects for nature and biodive...
Editorial page
Public enterprises
As major players in economic and social life, public enterprises contribute to the implementation of development policies. They are key partners for AFD.
Editorial page
Zanfini
Profile
Private Sector Study and Aid Fund: support for exports and development
The Private Sector Study and Aid Fund (FASEP) finances feasibility studies and demonstrator projects for green and innovative technologies implemented by French companies for foreign public authoritie...
Editorial page
Civil society organizations (CSOs)
AFD and civil society organizations (CSOs) work together to strengthen civil society’s contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Editorial page
Private companies
The private sector has a vital part to play in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Editorial page
Funds and facilities: a source of complementary financing
Whether for project preparation or to finance specific themes (such as conflict prevention or climate adaptation), Agence Française de Développement (AFD) manages or leverages funds and facilities tha...
Editorial page
Our economic model
AFD is first and foremost a public bank, and finances itself mainly by borrowing on the markets, made possible by the financial stability of its sole shareholder: the French State.
Editorial page
Kiwa Initiative
To strengthen the adaptation of the Pacific territories to the impacts of climate change and better protect their biodiversity, the Kiwa Initiative is supporting projects that promote nature-based sol...
Editorial page
