Press releases
Finance in Common Summit – $150 million for family farming in Angola
On the sidelines of the Finance in Common Summit, IFAD and AFD have signed a co-financing agreement to mobilize $150 million to help family farms in Angola cope with climate change.
AFD, DBSA and Proparco renew their partnership through the Memorandum of Understanding for 2020 to 2025 to sup...
The Development Bank of Southern Africa Limited (DBSA), and the Agence Francaise de Développement Group (AFD and Proparco), will sign a renewed Memorandum of Understanding, during the Finance in Commo...
€300 million loan from AFD to IFAD to support millions of small-scale farmers
In an effort to tackle the devastating impact of climate change on rural hunger and poverty, the French development agency, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), today signed a €300 million loan to...
USD 200+ million capital increase for TCX: Investors support TCX to protect the poorest against FX risks amids...
Within the framework of the Finance In Common Summit, several development finance institutions and the European Commission join forces to protect households and enterprises in the poorest countries ag...
Finance in Common Summit – €100 million for improving resilience of health systems in Africa
During the Finance in Common Summit, the Trade and Development Bank in Eastern and Southern Africa (TDB) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) committed to gather their effort for a better r...
450 Public Development Banks Join Forces to Address Sustainable Recovery Solutions
As the world faces unprecedented economic, social and environmental challenges resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the 450 Public Development Banks (PDBs) of the world gathered for the first time at...
Finance in Common Summit: The development and sport worlds join forces for the “Sport for Development Coalitio...
Today Public Development Banks are launching a “Sport for Development Coalition” in close collaboration with the world of sport. Members are committed to mobilizing their financial resources, investme...
Finance in Common Summit: Official launch of Sport en Commun”, the first digital platform in Africa for fundin...
Within the framework of the "Finance in Common" Summit, the African Sport en Commun platform was officially launched today in the presence of development and sport stakeholders mobilized to achieve th...
France grants €4 million towards key health projects in Sudan, through the Agence Française de Développement
On November 8, H.E. Mrs. Emmanuelle Blatmann, French Ambassador to Sudan, added her signature to two financing agreements between the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Save the Children Fund (Un...
France releases 25 million euros to help the housing and health sectors and aid economic recovery after the Au...
The Ambassador of France to Lebanon, Anne Grillo, chaired, on 5 November 2020, a signing ceremony for projects funded by France in response to the August 4 blast.
Water stress in North Africa: The French Development Agency and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory sign a new pa...
Signature of a new partnership between the French Development Agency and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory for the establishment of a regional initiative: “Water Stress and Climate Change in North Afri...
Sustainable finance: Success of AFD's first SDG Bond issue for a total of 2 billion euros
After issuing climate bonds in 2014, AFD announced on 21 October that it had issued the first bond under its new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework, ahead of the "Finance in...
Fak’ugesi Festival 2020: A virtual feast of Africa’s best creative digital workshops, talks, pitches and digit...
Wits University’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct and Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg will run their Fak’ugesi Digital Innovation Festival 2020 programme live and online for one month fro...
The Clean Oceans Initiative reaches two thirds of its 5-year financing target and expands with CDP and ICO as...
Today at the IMF/World Bank Group meetings, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and KfW acting on behalf of the German Federal Government reported significa...
South Africa: International infrastructure partnership formalised
The Department of Local Government in the Western Cape and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at addressing the backlog in the investment in infrastructure...
France and Kenya Sign a Series of Financing Agreements to the Tune of EUR 142 m in Support to Kenya’s Big Four...
The visit to France of the President of the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta on October 2, was the occasion to sign four financing agreements in support to Health emergency response, Opening...
AFD, the EU and Kenya to Finance Opening Up of Northern Areas With Better Rural Roads
On the sidelines of the visit to France of the President of the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta on October 2, a financing agreement was signed for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) rural road...
AFD, EIB, the EU and Kenya Join Forces to Improve Access to Water and Sanitation in Kisumu
On the sidelines of the visit to France of the President of the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta on October 2, financing agreements for the Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Project (LVWATS...
AFD group grants a US$100 million loan to Equity Bank to support Kenyan SMEs
This major operation illustrates Proparco’s firm commitment to the African private sector amid current Covid-19 crisis and economic turmoil, with a particular focus on job-creating SMEs, as part of th...
Mozambique: Government Speeds Up Electrification of Country with Emphasis on Renewable Energies
Public Calls for Tender to improve transparency and competitiveness in the renewable energy sector.
