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Catherine Simonet and Camille Laporte: the importance of evaluating the Minka fund
In the face of increasingly complex crisis, development gains are under threat. In response, France has created a financing tool dedicated to peacebuilding: the Minka Fund. Five years after its launch...
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Infographics - Results of AFD's First Customer Survey
With the support of Ipsos France, AFD conducted its first customer and partner survey at the end of 2021. One thousand of its counterparts were questioned and nearly 30% of them responded to the surve...
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How AFD brings your projects to life
How can a French public development bank support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that concern the whole world? Funding requests are submitted by local project sponsors to AF...
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How is AFD making development sustainable?
The sustainable development mechanism is a useful dialogue tool for AFD’s financing appraisal process. The aim is to serve as a basis for questions and encourage consideration of each project’s impact...
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Coastal erosion in the Comoros: How are perceptions and risks of maladaptation linked?
Coastal erosion and marine flooding today pose a major challenge for the Comoros and are likely to increase in the future. To cope with this, the local population mainly favors “hard” adaptation by st...
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2022 Universal Registration Document
AFD Group has continued to grow at a steady pace, maintaining a solid economic model in the face of the daunting challenges affecting the entire planet, including climate change, the fight against pov...
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Impact study of the creosote ban on power grid projects
Throughout the world, a vast majority of electric utility poles are made of wood. To increase the service life of these poles and improve their durability against various types of deterioration (insec...
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Infographic – Our Studies and Research Activity in 2022
Climate change, biodiversity protection, preservation of social cohesion, global crises… The studies and research conducted by AFD contribute to the analysis of a number of challenges facing the plane...
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Studies and Research - 2022 Activity Report
We have now entered the 'age of consequences': long, slow-moving crises such as climate change, whose effects are accelerating, and the major health, economic, and geopolitical shocks that may ensue a...
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Education, Training, Employment - 2022 Activity Report
The Covid-19 crisis has had a major effect on the education sector and jeopardizes the advances made in school enrollment, especially of girls, as well as skills development for young people entering...
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India: CITIIS Transforms Cities
The CITIIS project in India is transforming not only urban landscapes, but the way that urbanism is envisaged, developed and executed in a selection of the country's smart cities. Through this project...
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Kenya: a maternity ward for Lumumba hospital
Once a modest health center, the Lumumba establishment has become a reference hospital in Kisumu, au Kenya. It received support from AFD for its expansion and equipment, which allowed it to open a mat...
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AFD and Azerbaijan
AFD has been present in Azerbaijan since 2012 and operates through sovereign and non-sovereign loans. It is mainly active in the rail sector. Its objective is to support projects that contribute to th...
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Infographic - Our Sport & Development Commitments 2012-2022
Since 2015, the United Nations 2030 Agenda has explicitly recognized the contribution of sport to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and yet international cooperation actions incorpora...
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Digital freedoms in French-speaking African countries
As digital penetration increases in countries across the African continent, its citizens face growing risks and challenges. Indeed, beyond facilitated access to knowledge such as the online encycloped...
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Sustainable cities: living better while caring for the environment
AFD promotes and supports the development of sustainable cities. These cities are open to everyone, men and women; they are safe, efficient, and resilient. They ensure equitable access to essential se...
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Bibliometric analysis of literature combining gender and the commons
This research is based on a bibliometric analysis of the academic literature linking the gender perspective with that of the commons. The idea is not to report on all the theoretical and empirical con...
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Can Colombia cope with a Global Low Carbon transition?
This paper aims to understand the long-term consequences for the Colombian economy of a global low-carbon transition. The paper proposes an empirical Stock-Flow Consistent model for Colombia, encompas...
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Climate Change, Loss of Agricultural Output and the Macro-Economy: The Case of Tunisia
Using an empirical, multi-sectoral, open economy, Stock-Flow Consistent model, this paper assesses the long-term consequences of a sustained climate-induced decline in agricultural production for the...
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Vulnerability of Ghana’s Coast to Relative Sea-level Rise: A Scoping Review
Coastal areas are regions of essential value that are home to a myriad of services. However, population growth and climate change along with their cascading impacts have had profound impacts on their...
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