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West Bank: A Pioneering Project for Clean Water and Green Energy
In parts of the Palestinian territories, not only is access to water a problem, generating the energy to treat water and sanitation services can be difficult too. The AFD and EU-financed “Nexus North”...
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Access to Water remains a Major Global Problem
Senegal will host the 9th World Water Forum in Dakar from March 21 to 26. For Céline Robert, head of AFD's Water and Sanitation Division, this event should help re-mobilize the international community...
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“In Africa, the most diversified economies have weathered the crisis best”
AFD played an important role in publishing the French-language book L’Économie africaine 2022 (“African Economies 2022”), which appeared in bookstores on February 17. The book sheds light on the macro...
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Team Europe: Where Member States Scale Up Impact
To mark the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union from 1 January to 30 June 2022, AFD Group is publishing an interview with a specialist on development issues at the European level ev...
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AFD and the European Union: Using Converging Strategies to tackle World's Development Challenges
France will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the next six months. Driven by their shared convictions, AFD Group and the European Commission have been working together since...
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Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive Officer of AFD: “The Next 80 Years Will Be Decisive”
To mark a landmark anniversary for Agence Française de Développement, its Chief Executive Officer takes a look back at the fundamental elements that have shaped AFD, and contemplates the future of dev...
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AFD’s 80th Anniversary: Making Development More Sustainable and More Pertinent – to More People
How did it all begin? To mark AFD’s 80th anniversary – which we'll celebrate in December 2021 – François Pacquement, History and Strategic Thinking Officer at AFD, takes a look back at the Group’s his...
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The Impact of Climate Change on Lives and Livelihoods in Vietnam
In Vietnam, AFD and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) are conducting a research program entitled GEMMES Vietnam to assess the socio-economic impacts of climate c...
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Paris Peace Forum: “For Better Global Governance”
For its fourth edition from 11 to 13 November, the Paris Peace Forum will focus on working to “reduce global divides” in a world still under the threat of Covid-19. Anne de Soucy, AFD’s Director of Pa...
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Conservation in the Caribbean: “It is essential to pull our resources together to multiply the impacts of our ...
The upcoming conference on COP26 is focusing minds on the increasing urgency of climate change. Islands and coastal countries are among the most vulnerable. That’s why AFD and the French Facility for...
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New Africa-France Summit: Moving to a new level of engagement
On the eve of the New Africa France Summit to be held on October 8 in Montpellier, AFD’s Director for Africa, Christian Yoka, takes a look at the challenges facing Africa and describes the role that A...
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Evaluation at AFD: A Powerful Tool to Improve Our Actions
Following AFD's two conferences on evaluation on September 28 and October 1, we examine its value as a tool to measure and assess development interventions. In this interview, Nathalie Le Denmat, Head...
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UN Food Summit: “We Need to Recognize the Links between Climate Change and Food Security”
With the number of people suffering from hunger around the world continuing to rise, the UN held a world summit on the transformation of food systems on 23 September. Matthieu Le Grix, head of AFD’s A...
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IPCC Climate Report: "At This Rate, We Could Surpass the 1.5°C Threshold as Early as 2030."
On August 9, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the first part of its sixth report on scientific knowledge of climate systems and climate change. Meanwhile, the French nati...
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Kiwa Initiative: A network of organic learning farms in the Pacific to promote climate change resilience and f...
Guest Post – As part of the Kiwa initiative, AFD and the Pacific Community are supporting the creation of a network of organic farms to support farmers in the Pacific Islands in their transition to su...
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Unlikely Allies: Artificial Intelligence and Biodiversity
It’s a potentially groundbreaking combination: AI and biodiversity. And it’s being explored by the major players in their respective fields. Agence Française de Développement and the French National R...
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Protected Areas: Nurturing Biodiversity for Present and Future Generations
Tree loss and wildfires in Latin America have become so extreme that the Amazon is contributing to carbon emissions, rather than absorbing them, according to a July report in the journal Nature. AFD...
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Improving the Effectiveness of our Operations through Evaluations
To mark the publication of the Africa edition of AFD’s evaluation report, Karen Rot-Münstermann, from the Independent Development Evaluation Department at the African Development Bank (AfDB), and Thom...
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Economic transition Strategy: "Centring the Economy on People and the Planet"
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals also means transforming the economy. AFD Group’s Strategy for the economic and financial transition is supporting this change of approach. We speak to Emman...
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Summit on the Financing of African Economies: “The needs are enormous”
France is holding a summit on May 18 on the financing of African economies, most of which have suffered from the health crisis. In this interview, Cécile Valadier, AFD's Deputy Head of the Economic As...
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