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Release following the Digital Africa Board

Digital Africa announces today the nomination of Jean-Pierre Barral for AFD as President. He replaces Kizito Okechukwu, who held the position of acting President since June 2020.

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...

Sustainable Transport on Track in Peru

An initiative in Peru, in which old, public vehicles are being sent to the junkyard to make room for new, less polluting buses and vans, is getting a boost. AFD, KfW and the European Union are provid...

Morocco: Equality and Gender Responsive Budgeting

How to implement gender-equitable public policies? In Morocco, an innovative approach – gender-responsive budgeting – is making issues of equality concrete and quantifiable.

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...

2019-2020 evaluation report: focus on Africa

This second part of the 2019-2020 evaluation report, devoted to Africa, explains how evaluation helps better identify, share and probe the results of AFD's work on the continent.

Innovative financing platform to enhance cooperation between European public development banks

AECID, AFD, CDP and KfW are announcing their ambition for the creation of a “Team Europe Finance Platform” with the purpose of further enhancing the efficient cooperation between the various actors of...

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...

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...

Peace-building, to Prevent and Cope with Crises

Launched in 2017, the Minka Peace and Resilience Fund is now in its fifth year of existence. Everywhere from the Sahel to the Middle East, via the Central African Republic and the Lake Chad Basin, Min...

Managing Mekong Water Resources: AFD and MRC at work

The Mekong River Commission (MRC) and AFD signed a new financing agreement on May 17, for a grant of €1.5 million. Its aim is to provide for balanced development of the Mekong River Basin to help deal...

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...

Interactive Online Exhibition Features Projects that Protect Biodiversity

On the occasion of World Biodiversity Day, we take you to the heart of five ecosystem preservation projects financed by AFD in Southern Africa, via a virtual exhibition, which will be accessible for a...

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.