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International Day of Forests: A decade of Turkish-French Cooperation Managing Sustainable Forests

A large-scale collaborative effort to reverse deforestation and protect Turkey’s trees is coming to a close. Some 40 budgetary, institutional and technical commitments worth a total of more than €600...

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”...

Building the Africa of Tomorrow: 16 Stories from Engaged Youth

On the youngest continent in the world where more than half of the population is under 25, African youth are key players in sectors ranging from sports and creative industries to entrepreneurship and...

Hann Bay, Senegal: A Partnership for Depollution and Restoration

Urban growth and industrialization in Hann Bay in Dakar have led to devastating pollution. For the bustling West African capital, the ramifications of the daily influx of industrial effluents and dome...

Strong Sustainability Trajectories: AFD Launches a Call for Research Papers

On December 7, 8 and 9, 2022, AFD is organizing its 15th International Research Conference on Development, on the theme “Strong sustainability: are Net Zero development trajectories sustainable?” A ca...

Togo

AFD has been operating in Togo for over sixty years. It is currently supporting the country as it implements public policies to promote sustainable growth, boost social cohesion, reduce poverty and in...

Reinventing Development: an Interview with Achille Mbembe and Rémy Rioux

When French President Emmanuel Macron commissioned Achille Mbmembe to write a report on the state of African-French relations, the Cameroonian philosopher and historian was aware of the sheer scale of...

Sahel Alliance: A Data Snapshot of the International Response to the Region’s Challenges

For deeper engagement in the Sahel in West and Central Africa, France, Germany and the European Union launched the Sahel Alliance. Backed by the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the United...

AFD Backs a Reinforced Power Grid in Southern Vietnam

Hervé Conan, Director of AFD's office in Vietnam and Nguyen Xuan Nam, Vice-President of Vietnam Electricity (EVN), signed an agreement for an €80 million loan aiming at strengthening the power grid i...

AFD's Wide-Ranging Work in the Sahel

Security threats in the Sahel require a response that is not only military but also political and humanitarian, addressing a wide range of development issues in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania an...

Cambodia: A New Wild Honey Label to Stimulate Rural Development

Wild honey has been cultivated in Cambodia for centuries, but it’s only recently that a new label aiming to maximize its commercial success and facilitate rural development has been launched. AFD has...

The Sahel: No Security without Development

Few regions illustrate the close relationship between security and development more than the Sahel. On the heels of the third General Assembly of the Sahel Alliance, of which AFD Group is a member, Fr...

Making Water More Accessible in Niger

In Abalak in western Niger, less than two-thirds of the town of 30,000 have access to regularly running water. That is set to change. FICOL (the French local authorities financing facility), AFD and t...

Reconciling energy transition and economic development in Cambodia: the 2050 Facility mobilized

In order to meet the objectives it has set itself under the Paris Agreement, Cambodia wishes to develop a sustainable energy development trajectory, while meeting growing demand. To support it, a Memo...

Using Aquaculture to Shore up Food Security

To cope with the economic consequences of Covid-19 in Cambodia, the CaPFish-Aqua project is supporting the aquaculture sector to shore up food security and diversify household economic activities in r...

Public Procurement Reform: "Part of the Solution to Lebanon's Structural Problems"

Michel Samaha, economist and manager of the Governance and Reforms portfolio at AFD’s office in Beirut, tells us about the public procurement reform process in Lebanon and the role of Agence Française...

Six Things to Know about Public Development Banks

Though little known, public development banks play an essential role in the global economy. With trillions of dollars in assets, they could be all the more consequential in the face of the continuing...

Increase of AFD 2020 funding plan

France's partnership with ASEAN: AFD is Fully Mobilized

France became a development partner with ASEAN on September 9. The partnership will have a profound impact on AFD’s actions in Southeast Asia, and bodes well for future economic and development prospe...

Making Industrial Development Sustainable: "Private Sector & Development"

The industrial sector is often said to be essential to economic development, but it is also a source of much controversy (environmental impact, labor law compliance, creation of decent jobs and other...