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AFD in Kenya: Stepping in to Shore up Water, Health and Infrastructure
With Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s visit to France in October, four agreements were signed, not only to provide a major response to the current health emergency, but also to shore up infrastructur...
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Biodiversity: Sharing Data for Greater Protection of the Natural World
Data4Nature is a new initiative inviting all development partners to share the biodiversity data from their projects, to provide better protection for the natural world. Having emerged from the Financ...
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Public Development Banks: the First Global Database
What are development banks and finance institutions, and what is their purpose? What assets can they mobilize, and what is their share in the global financial market? The answers may surprise you. Fo...
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AFD, a Longstanding Partner of Public Development Banks
Public development banks (PDBs) are both peer institutions and development partners for AFD and the two share a long history. Here is a brief timeline of the milestones of their common destiny.
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Aiming for the SDGs: 10 Recommendations for Development Banks Around the World
AFD’s 14th International Development Research Conference, and the Finance in Common Summit were the occasion for an international network of researchers to offer initial recommendations for boosting t...
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Finance in Common Summit: The "Sport for Development Coalition" Enters the Field
A "Sport for Development Coalition" was launched on 11 November during the first international summit of public development banks, held from 9 to 12 November. This initiative is combined with a powerf...
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Finance in Common: New AFD Projects on the Ground
A key organizer of last week’s Finance in Common, the first summit of development banks, and its emblematic statements, AFD Group also committed to a series of new projects on the ground, alongside it...
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AFD Digital Challenge: the Start-ups Designing Sustainable Cities
AFD's “Shared Innovation” series highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. For its fourth edition, the AFD Digital Challenge is rewarding ten innovative African...
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Covid’s Consequences for Global Remittances
The families of Africans working abroad need the money they send home now more than ever. The widening world pandemic has had grave consequences for the global economy, particularly in developing coun...
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#Data4Covid19: The Challenge for Africa
A call for innovative proposals: from December 15 to February 5, 2021, AFD, in collaboration with Expertise France and The GovLab, is inviting researchers specializing in data analysis to address the...
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Paris Accord: Five years of European partnership in India
Five years after the signing of the Paris Accord, three European ambassadors descended on the Indian city of Kochi, where innovative, low-carbon urban planning serves as a testament to the impact that...
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France Commits to a Major Boost in Overseas Aid
The French government has charted a new, more ambitious course for its development assistance. Just before the end of the year, France pledged to increase the share of its GDP devoted to overseas aid...
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Protecting Forests in Türkiye: Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity Protection
Türkiye and France have teamed up in a large-scale collaborative effort to address the issue of forest adaptation to climate change. The initiative was launched using a public policy loan and a grant...
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A Brazilian Hackathon for Smart Cities
AFD’s “Shared Innovation” series highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. It was a hackathon with a purpose. Last month, Brazilian students and tech professiona...
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World in Common: A Soundtrack
At turns somber, moving and uplifting, Thomas Roussel’s composition for AFD has launched a new year whose spirit we hope will prove to be more “in common” than ever before, one in which we move toward...
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A Kit to Simulate International Negotiations on Biodiversity at School
International debates and negotiations over environmental issues can often seem a world away from real life. How to encourage young people to engage? France’s Ministry of Education, the French Office...
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€1 Billion for Biodiversity
In a bold move, AFD will double its financing for ecosystem protection. It was announced at the One Planet Summit in Paris on January 11: €1 billion a year will be mobilized to finance biodiversity. G...
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The Little Book of Investing in Nature
It’s a small book aiming to address a big issue, with global repercussions. In partnership with AFD, the NGO Global Canopy has released a new edition of The Little Book of Investing in Nature. It high...
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Supporting The MedFund and Marine Protected Areas
The Mediterranean Sea is one of the 35 biodiversity hotspots identified by the NGO Conservation International. It is home to nearly 10% of the world’s marine biodiversity on less than 1% of the ocean...
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A Gender Budget to Tackle Inequality in Argentina
In 2020, the Province of Santa Fe, the third most populous in Argentina, announced that it would vote a gender-responsive budget for the year 2021 for several programs. AFD is supporting its implement...
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