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The IUCN World Conservation Congress in 8 Points

As the IUCN World Conservation Congress opens in Marseille, major nature-related issues will take center-stage, such as green finance, the interlinked health of animals, human beings and ecosystems, n...

IUCN World Conservation Congress: "There Can Be No Real Development Without Taking Nature into Account"

How Public Development Banks can Support Biodiversity

Despite the decline in biodiversity around the natural world, solutions can be found in unexpected places. Public Development Banks can play a major role in mobilizing the finance necessary to protect...

France and AFD, Key Partners of IUCN

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the French government, and Agence Française de Développement enjoy close ties, as exemplified by the successive partnerships the two parties...

Assessment of Conservation Trust Funds: For the Benefit of Biodiversity

For the first time, a cross-cutting assessment of eight biodiversity conservation trust funds and their support by Agence française de développement (AFD) and the Fonds Français pour l’Environnement M...

One Planet Summit: Eight Months on, Progress on Biodiversity

Agence française de développement is taking very concrete action to implement a series of initiatives stemming from the One Planet Summit in January 2021 and focused on biodiversity. A progress report...

AFD “Macrodev” Publication: Africa’s Financing Needs in Question

Lessons learned from the IUCN World Conservation Congress

The World Conservation Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) took place on September 3–11 in Marseille. This gathering helped put biodiversity protection high on the in...

[Feature Report] Looking Back on the IUCN World Conservation Congress

With France, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) organized its World Conservation Congress from September 3 to 11, 2021 in Marseille.

Cambodia: 20 years of AFD Support for Rubber Producers

Since 1999, AFD has been supporting a sustainable and inclusive rubber industry in Cambodia. With the signature of a new project, which will assess the consequences of climate change for the sector, w...

AFD Backing in Laos for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources

Two new grants agreements have been signed in Laos, for a total of 9 million euros. One project supports coffee growers; the other provides support for sustainable management of natural resources. Tog...

Promoting Open Science: the full catalog of AFD Publications now available

On the eve of the International Day of Universal Access to Information on September 28, AFD confirms its commitment to open science, in particular by making our publications freely available.

AFD in the Middle East: Promoting Societal Cohesion with Vocational Support and Training

Transnational armed groups, inter-religious and inter-ethnic conflicts, population displacements - warfare may have changed, but human insecurity is still very much a major challenge today. On the hee...

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...

Rise: a Program to Develop Social Entrepreneurship in the Western Balkans

AFD is supporting “Rise” – a program to help young entrepreneurs in the Western Balkans set up social enterprises. They are a key component of the region’s continuing development, and part of efforts...

World Contraception Day: Supporting the Youth in Niger

Access to contraception is a major public health issue for women around the planet. To mark World Contraception Day on 26 September, AFD took a look at this issue through a major awareness-raising ini...

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...

Improving financial inclusion: a priority in the Philippines

While the Philippines has been on a sustained growth trajectory since 2012 (+6.6% per year on average), its levels of poverty and income inequality are higher than most of its Southeast Asian neighbor...

African Entrepreneurship: The Challenge of Scaling Up

In Africa, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) generate close to 80% of employment and are estimated to account for a third of GDP. Yet most SMEs have difficulty obtaining the finance they need to gro...

[FEATURE] Africa-France: Youth take Center Stage at the Summit

The New Africa-France Summit will be held on October 8, 2021 in Montpellier, France. This year the format is radically different: no heads of state will attend – with the exception of French President...