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An ambitious project to improve water and sanitation infrastructure in southern Turkey
Funded by the European Union (EU) and supported by Agence Française de Développement and the World Bank, this project aims to assist the municipalities of southern Turkey in the renovation of their wa...
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Lebanon: One Year On, Reconstruction at Work with AFD and its Partners
One year after the double explosion in the port of Beirut, France's support for Lebanon is as strong as ever. Agence française de développement is at the heart of the operation and is working with its...
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Investing in Human Capital in the Energy Sector
AFD’s work with partner countries in the energy sector aims not only to provide electricity and improve infrastructure, but to develop the skills required across the sector. This human capital is a re...
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Five Projects to Bring Sport to Life in All Fields in the Run Up to Paris 2024
AFD has made sport one of its new lines of action and promotes “Sport for All” by encouraging equal access to sport. A focus on five projects to develop sport in Africa and the Western Balkans in the...
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Tunisia: Facilitating Access to Water and Women’s Empowerment
To mark National Women’s Day in Tunisia on Friday 13 August, Agence Française de Développement, the leading donor for rural drinking water supply in Tunisia, has published the handbook “Water: A Promi...
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Picturing a World Free of Plastic: Cartoon Contest Raises Awareness
Indonesia is the second-largest producer of plastic debris in the world. In a bid to turn things around and raise awareness, PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (Persero) and AFD have organized a comics com...
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3 Questions on the IUCN World Conservation Congress
France and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) are organizing the World Conservation Congress from 3 to 11 September in Marseille. It’s a key event for biodiversity specialists a...
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Tapping into Global Finance to Expand Access to Clean Water
Drawing to a close on Friday, World Water Week is a global conference aimed at finding ways to expand access to water and sanitation services and improve water quality. Hosted by the Stockholm Interna...
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Improving Access to Drinkable Water in Dakar - Despite Demographic Pressures
World Water Week, which ends this Friday, August 27, highlighted projects around the world aimed at universal access to drinking water. Of growing concern are the effects of urbanization and the incre...
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Protecting Natural Areas in Chad to Preserve Biodiversity
Establishing natural protected areas can be an effective way of safeguarding biodiversity. AFD and the European Union are supporting such work in Chad, where NGOs are managing a complex of protected a...
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Costa Rica and France's Southeast: A Partnership for Biodiversity at the World Conservation Congress
The Diversity Partnership Project led by France's Southeast and Costa Rica, a pioneer country in biodiversity protection, was presented during the World Conservation Congress of the International Unio...
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Kosovo: Using Sports to Facilitate Reconciliation
The NGO PLAY International uses sport to promote education and inter-ethnic reconciliation, which is of vital importance in a region once riven by ethnic conflict. PLAY is part of a multi-country proj...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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