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How does AFD support the energy transition away from fossil fuel dependence?
In response to energy price volatility and supply tensions, dependence on fossil fuels is emerging more than ever as a source of vulnerability. To address this, Agence Française de Développement (AFD...
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How does AFD measure the impact of the projects it supports?
Ensuring the quality of projects is both a duty and an obligation for a public development bank. Each year, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) evaluates – and commissions evaluations of – the imp...
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AFD and the World Bank: a stronger partnership for greater impact
AFD Group is the leading bilateral financing partner of the World Bank Group (WBG) by number of co-financed projects. With a memorandum of understanding for a strategic partnership signed in 2024, and...
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One Health: a summit to prevent health risks
The One Health Summit will take place in Lyon, France, on 7 April 2026. By linking human, animal, and environmental health, this approach is proving critical in a context of heightened pandemic risk....
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[Feature Report] Forests: As vital as they are vulnerable
Whether as vast sources of biodiversity, carbon sinks, or as food sources, forests are vital for life on Earth. But they’re under constant threat by human activities and climate change. In this featur...
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[Special report] Water: Challenges related to universal access, health and the environment
Approximately 2.2 billion people worldwide still live without safely managed drinking water. How can we improve access to water, combat waterborne diseases and better manage the consequences of floods...
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[Special report] Advancing equality: how AFD supports women’s rights
On the occasion of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2026, this report highlights how Agence Française de Développement (AFD) supports gender equality. How is this support for women’s rights organi...
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8 things to know about Overseas Development Assistance
Official Development Assistance (ODA) refers to all funding provided by public authorities in higher-income countries to improve living conditions in low- and middle-income countries. However, its sco...
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How can we ensure equitable technological development in the age of AI and data?
Significant investment is essential to bridge the global technology gap and ensure that all countries are prepared for the age of Artificial intelligence. To support public and private investors in th...
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The renewal of urban public transport in Africa
After decades dominated by informal modes of transport – such as minibuses and motorcycle taxis – the African continent has, since the 2010s, been undergoing a real transformation in urban public tran...
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Public debt looms again in sub-Saharan Africa
Public debt levels have increased significantly in sub-Saharan Africa since the late 2000s, raising concerns about over-indebtedness. The issue is examined by four experts in "L’économie africaine 202...
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Loans: AFD’s primary financing tool
Loans account for the vast majority of Agence Française de Développement (AFD)’s financial activity (90%), while grants for sustainable development projects represent 10%. This lean economic model hel...
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Sub-Saharan Africa faces persistent demographic challenges
The vast majority of African countries are experiencing a population boom, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. While this growth could bring economic benefits, it also poses significant challenges, ac...
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What global framework will replace the SDGs after 2030?
Adopted in 2015 by the United Nations, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets – or sub-goals – aim to address the world's most critical challenges by 2030: poverty, inequality, cli...
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How can the Commons approach transform Brazil?
With the COP Climate Conference taking place from November 10 to 21, 2025, in Belém, Brazil, the Commons approach to international solidarity highlights the pioneering strategy being implemented in th...
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From research to action for a fairer green transition
In South Africa, Mexico, Colombia and Indonesia, researchers are doing more than studying inequality. They are working with governments to identify ways of making the ecological transition an opportun...
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How AFD Group aligned its operations with the SDGs
Adopted in 2015 by the United Nations, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets – or sub-goals – aim to address the world's most critical challenges by 2030: poverty, inequality, cli...
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80 years of the UN: AFD and the 'discreet certainty' of our partnership
Founded in 1945, four years after Agence Française de Développement (AFD), then known as the "Caisse Centrale de la France Libre", the United Nations shares with AFD a rich history in support of susta...
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The SDGs are 10 years old: what progress has been made since 2015?
The ambition of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, is to provide responses to the main global challenges by 2030: poverty, inequa...
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What are "nature-based solutions"?
From food and health to climate action, nature offers effective, low-cost, and sustainable solutions to many of today’s societal challenges. Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is particularly att...
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