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Finance in Common Summit: Promoting Gender Equality

On 12 November 2020, at the Finance in Common Summit, a high-level event on gender equality led to a joint statement on four priority focus areas for gender equality and women’s empowerment.

10 Highlights from the First Global Summit of Development Banks

The first Finance in Common Summit on November 9 to 12, was hosted remotely from Paris by Agence Française de Développement. The mainly virtual gathering brought together public development banks to d...

The Energy Transition Ramps Up in Southeast Asia

A brand new coalition has been set up to boost the energy transition across Southeast Asia. In collaboration with public donors and private foundations, France, via Agence Française de Développement (...

Reinforcing the Urban Fabric with Citizen Project Laboratories

In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs devised and developed in our partner countries. In Ouagadougou, Abidjan, Dakar and several Tunisian cities, “Citizen Projec...

Covid-19: €1 Billion More for Small African Businesses

To support African MSMEs – micro, small and medium sized enterprises – affected by the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, AFD Group is scaling up the presidential Choose Africa initiative by mobil...

Vietnam: A New Metro Line Paves the Way to a Greener City

A ten-year project providing a much-needed boost to public transportation in Vietnam’s capital is nearing completion. Extending more than 12 km, the metro line between Nhon and Hanoi, consisting of 1...

Terramaz: A program to fight deforestation and promote sustainable development in Ecuador

AFD is supporting a large-scale program to help several Amazonian territories in the fight against deforestation and the transition to sustainable development models.

Five Years on from the Paris Accord, New Commitments to Come

To mark the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Accord on Climate Change, France, the UK and the United Nations are organizing the Climate Ambition Summit on December 12. Damien Navizet, AF...

The Kiwa Initiative: A Coalition to Protect Biodiversity

A coalition spanning the globe, from Canada to New Zealand has joined forces to use nature-based solutions to help communities in the Global South better adapt to climate change. AFD, the European Uni...

Emergency Support to Pacific Island Countries to Contain Covid-19 and Emerging Diseases

AFD is providing emergency funding to help 12 Pacific island countries and territories monitor and respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. The support will also boost the region’s ability to cope with other...

AFD Digital Challenge: 10 Prizewinning Innovative Projects Promoting Sustainable Development

AFD's “Shared Innovation” series highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. Every year, the AFD Digital Challenge rewards ten innovative African start-ups that bu...

Public Procurement Reform: "Part of the Solution to Lebanon's Structural Problems"

Michel Samaha, economist and manager of the Governance and Reforms portfolio at AFD’s office in Beirut, tells us about the public procurement reform process in Lebanon and the role of Agence Française...

Six Things to Know about Public Development Banks

Though little known, public development banks play an essential role in the global economy. With trillions of dollars in assets, they could be all the more consequential in the face of the continuing...

Increase of AFD 2020 funding plan

France's partnership with ASEAN: AFD is Fully Mobilized

France became a development partner with ASEAN on September 9. The partnership will have a profound impact on AFD’s actions in Southeast Asia, and bodes well for future economic and development prospe...

Making Industrial Development Sustainable: "Private Sector & Development"

The industrial sector is often said to be essential to economic development, but it is also a source of much controversy (environmental impact, labor law compliance, creation of decent jobs and other...

Conserving Ecosystems: “Everyone must do their part!”

At the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity last week, Gilles Kleitz, AFD’s Director of the Ecological Transitions and Natural Resources Department, provided insight into the growing momentum in supp...

AFD Calls for Vigilance as it is Targeted by Identity Theft

Finance in Common: the Global Investment that could Change the World

Throughout the world, there are some 450 public development banks, which account for one-tenth of global investment. How is that amount allocated? These are financial institutions of an altogether dif...

Making Development Resilient to Climate Change: the Role of Local Communities

Local communities around the world are trying to make the transition to low-carbon and resilient modes of development. But to do so, they need capacity building, and must approach development in radic...