The EU-AFD Facility on Inequalities (2026-2028): Making Global Gateway Investments Work for Inclusion

Building on nearly ten years of collaboration, the European Union (EU) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have launched the third phase of the Facility on Inequalities. Taking a more operational orientation, this phase focuses on how public and private investments, particularly in infrastructures, can help reduce inequalities. It aims to strengthen the effective integration of inequality reduction into Global Gateway investments by mainstreaming inequality consideration from the outset, developing tools and methodologies, and improving the tracking of distributional impacts.

For its third phase, the Facility’s work is structured around three analytical areas that correspond both to key stages of the investment cycle and to the four criteria of the EU Inequality Marker (I-Marker). Taken together, these three areas form an integrated research framework that accompanies investments throughout their lifecycle, from
upstream strategic choices to outcome assessment and institutional learning.

Find out more on the EU-AFD Facility on Inequalities' webpage.