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Seed fund for African digital start-ups
It’s a big boost for small businesses and entrepreneurs. To help support and finance African start-ups, AFD is launching a new €15 million seed fund. It’s part of a growing commitment to expanding the...
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Inspiring children and uplifting the city through sports
The city centre of Johannesburg, historically the heart of the city's economic activity, has seen a sharp decline since the 1970s: many buildings were abandoned, public spaces were left in decline and...
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Getting to Net-Zero Emissions: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
Since 2017, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and AFD, in partnership with the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), have been supporting the Deep Decarbon...
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AFD and the blue economy in Indonesia
The largest archipelago in the world with nearly 17,000 islands and the 6th Exclusive Economic Zone of the world (sea surface of 6 million km²), Indonesia is a country that conceives its development a...
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20 years of AFD in Palestine
Over the last twenty years and with a difficult Palestinian history, AFD funded many projects aiming to help the most vulnerable people and to support institutional building of Palestine. In coordinat...
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Microfinance at the service of the population in Ghana
The Ghanaian financial sector is dominated by banking institutions but also relies on a large number of non-bank financial institutions, from the formal, semi-formal or formalization sector. Microfina...
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Financing TVET: a comparative analysis in six Asian countries
Over the last years, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has been rising in the political agenda of both the international community and many governments around the world. In the ne...
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Tunisia
Tunisia, which is located between the Mediterranean and the Sahara, went through a major political shake-up in 2011. Its transition to democracy was underpinned three years later with the introduction...
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Financing TVET: a comparative analysis in six Asian countries - Korean Case Study
Over the last years, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has been rising in the political agenda of both the international community and many governments around the world. In the ne...
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Financing TVET: a comparative analysis in six Asian countries - Country Case Study: Viet Nam
Over the last years, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has been rising in the political agenda of both the international community and many governments around the world. In the ne...
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Evaluation Summary - Post-earthquake reconstruction program in the Sichuan Province, China
In the Sichuan province of China, for the “Reconstruction relief and rehabilitation” sector, the post-earthquake reconstruction program was subject to an evaluation in September 2015. The Wenchuan...
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Evaluation Summary - Yichang small hydraulic project, China
In China, for the “Energy” sector, the Yichang small hydraulic project was subject to an evaluation in August 2014. The project was perfectly aligned with the strong Chinese focus on renewable energy...
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Evaluation Summary - NamPower Caprivi-Link Interconnector (CLI) project, Namibia
In Namibia, the NamPower Caprivi-Link Interconnector (CLI) project was subject to an evaluation in October 2014. To meet its electricity needs, Namibia relies on imports from thermal power stations i...
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Evaluation Summary - Irrigation optimization in the Jordan Valley project, (IOJoV)
For the “Agricultural water resources” sector, the irrigation optimization project in the Jordan Valley was subject to an evaluation in January 2015. The reduction of the freshwater allocation to t...
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Evaluation Summary - Rural roads improvement project in Central Kenya
The Rural roads improvement project in Central Kenya was subject to an evaluation in November 2016, for the “Road transport” sector. The project was formulated under Kenya’s Roads 2000 Road Mainten...
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Evaluation Summary - Second phase of the water supply distribution extension in Vientiane project (AEP2)
In Laos, the second phase of the water supply distribution extension in Vientiane project (AEP2) was subject to an evaluation in May 2016. The company Nam Papa Nakhone Luang (NPNL) was unable to me...
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Multimodal transport hubs – Good practice guidelines
Mobility actors have now fully incorporated the concept of multimodal transport hubs (MTH) into their vocabulary. The notion refers to a building and an urban space, and translates into different real...
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Public debt in developping countries with Maxime Terrieux
Since the late 1990s, several developing countries have benefited from public debt relief. Yet by early 2020, half of the poor countries had reached a high risk or even already a situation of public d...
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Encouraging green finance: AFD's offer to public banks
AFD is the first agency to be 100% in line with the Paris Agreement and to make strong commitments on climate financing by supporting the transformation of financial actors' practices and promoting su...
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Support to civil society organizations - 2019 Activity report
AFD has been supporting the initiatives of French civil society organizations (CSOs) and their partners in the Global South for 10 years, with financing delegated by the Ministry for Europe and Foreig...
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