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Upgrading Indonesian oceanographic research capacities, addressing global climate and biodiversity challenges ...
Indonesia is strengthening its national oceanographic research capacities with the procurement of Multipurpose Research Vessels. The KRisNa (Kapal Riset Nasional) Project is implemented by the LIPI (I...
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Supporting Cambodia in modelling energy transition scenarios to 2050
Agence française de développement (AFD) is supporting the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and other line-ministries to develop a long-term energy trajectory-modelling tool to perform strategic,...
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Supporting the Investment and Development Fund of Montenegro to Finance Climate Projects
This project aims to support and promote climate investments in favor of Montenegrin SMEs and municipalities, and to strengthen the Investment and Development Fund of Montenegro (IDF) in the structuri...
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Climate - Activity report 2023
As the first development bank to have committed to aligning its financing with the Paris Agreement, AFD Group is rolling out its “Climate and Development” strategy. In 2023, AFD committed €7.5 billion...
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Financial Systems – 2023 Activity Report
Financial systems play a central role in development trajectories. When financial activities are disrupted by underlying weaknesses, crises can result, with devastating effects. Conversely, when the&n...
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Education, Training, Employment - 2023 Activity Report
Youth education and teacher training in developing countries is among the ten priority objectives of France’s international solidarity policy. It is also gearing up to adopt a new strategy for externa...
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Infographic - Our Education, Training, Employment Commitments in 2023
AFD works to ensure access to quality education for all, especially for girls, from primary school to higher education, and from vocational training to employment. It also finances projects to build a...
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AFD Group Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct
Corruption, in all its forms, is a major obstacle to development. In developing countries, perhaps even more than in developed countries, it has detrimental effects. It deprives the poorest populat...
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Energy Transition - 2021 Activity Report
After a year marked by the health crisis and a decline in activity in 2020, AFD Group has returned to a level of commitments in the energy sector on par with previous years. In 2021, €2.2 billion of f...
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Céline Gilquin: Water issue a major challenge
In the context of the next World Water Forum, which will kick off on 18 March in Brazil, Céline Gilquin, Head of AFD’s Water and Sanitation Division, gives details about the key challenges concerning...
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Kenya - 2017-2021 Strategy
AFD group has been operating in Kenya since 1995 via its subsidiary PROPARCO. AFD subsequently opened an agency in Nairobi in 1997, with a regional competence for the five countries which make up the...
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Soweto Water Project | 2005 - 2010 | A filmed evaluation
The Operation "Gcin'amanzi" (Zulu for "water conservation") in Soweto is one of the country's most ambitious water-related projects. In post-apartheid South Africa the project was essential. Since the...
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10 years of partnership between India and AFD
Today’s world is increasingly interconnected. Building a safer, more equitable and sustainable world implies intensifying collective action and partnerships to shape solutions that benefit all. India...
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Why is the water issue a major challenge?
Today, 2.1 billion people do not have access to drinking water and 4.5 billion people do not benefit from sanitation services.
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Retrospective Analysis of the Urban Water Supply Sector in Senegal: A Public-Private Partnership Over Time
This study, commissioned by the AFD Innovation, Research and Knowledge department, provides a retrospective analysis of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) that has been managing the urban water supp...
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Water & sanitation: 2017 Review of the implementation of the strategy for 2014-2018
EUR 1.3 billion for the water and sanitation sector 2017 confirmed the strong growth in the annual volume of financing approvals, which has doubled since 2014. Out of EUR 1.3 billion, EUR 1.2 billi...
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French Guiana: Spring water ... finally drinkable
In the Amerindian village of Favard, in the municipality of Roura in French Guiana, the installation of a water treatment unit has given residents access to drinking water all year round. This is prov...
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Challenges in Sanitation
Among the essential public utilities, sanitation and wastewater services present forms of organization and management that have contributed to make it low on the agenda of policy makers when it comes...
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The Commons : Interview with David Bollier
David Bollier is one of the Co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group. He gives his point of view about The Commons and examples of commoning.
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South Africa: from cow manure to green energy
In South Africa, a brand-new action has come into being: cow manure is being used. Sean Thomas, a South African entrepreneur, has set up a plant that produces biogas energy. In brief, rather than leav...
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