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Strategic Partnership: AFD and TICA sign a historic amendment for enhanced cooperation in Thailand

AFD Group and the Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA) have reached a significant milestone by signing an amendment authorizing Expertise France to operate in Thailand.

AFD AND KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA DOUBLE THEIR COOPERATION

The Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed three financing agreements in the fields of drinking water, energy, and vocational...

AGENCE FRANÇAISE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT SUCCESSFULLY PRICED A NEW 4.125% £350 MILLION BENCHMARK DUE 22ND JULY 2027

On Monday 15th January, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), rated AA /AA- (S&P / Fitch), issued its first GBP benchmark of the year, a £350 million 3.5-year fixed rate benchmark due on the 22nd J...

AFD and UNICEF sign a new partnership to support education for children

To mark the International Day of Education, the Minister of Education and Higher Education visits Uruguay Public School with a delegation from the Agence Française de Développement and UNICEF.

AFD’s 2024 Funding Program

AFD’s Board of Directors approved the 2024 funding program on January 25, setting the target at €9 billion.

Publication of a research paper on the stimulus effects of the South African PYEI-BEEI programme

New research shows that the largest component of South Africa’s Presidential Employment Stimulus (PES) programme is beneficial to economic growth as it also has an indirect positive effect on non-prog...

Linking finance, business and biodiversity in Thailand : the fruitfull bet of FIN4BIO !

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD Group) and the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP), in collaboration with Thailand Environment Institute (TEI), Blue Ren...

EAA Foundation, AFD and Silatech Join Forces in $70 Million Collaboration for Global Impact on Education, Gree...

Education Above All (EAA) Foundation, in collaboration with Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Silatech, announced a strategic partnership aimed at creating a significant impact on access to...

AFD SUCCESSFULLY PRICES A NEW 4.500% USD 2 BILLION 5-YEAR SUSTAINABLE BENCHMARK DUE 05 MARCH 2029

On Tuesday, 27 February 2024, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), rated AA (S&P) / AA- (Fitch) successfully returned to the USD market a new 5-Year USD 2Bn sustainable bond issue.

CENTRAL PROVINCES OF QUANG NAM AND QUANG TRI TO RECEIVE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE EU AND FRANCE TOWARDS TACKL...

The financing agreements of two climate change adaptation projects in the central provinces of Quang Nam and Quang Tri respectively were officially handed over today from the Vietnamese Ministry of Fi...

PH, EU launch disaster risk reduction and management program to enhance LGUs readiness capacities

The Department of Finance (DOF), the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), the European Union (EU) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group launched a disaster risk redu...

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Global Africa, a multidisciplinary and multilingual journal addressing the future of the African continent in ...

The members of the Global Africa consortium – University Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis (UGB, Senegal), National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD, France), the Laboratoire d'études et...

AFD Issues Its First Ever Off-Shore Chinese Renminbi (CNH) Bond

On March, 10th Agence Française de Développement (AFD) priced its first ever Offshore Chinese Renminbi linked bond.

Researchers Warn Vietnam Could Warm Up to 6°C by Century’s End

A new report warns that if nothing is done to fight climate change, temperatures could rise by as much as 6° in Vietnam in the worst case scenario, with disastrous consequences for people and the envi...

A Stronger Partnership for Sustainable Finance Between Indonesia and France: PT SMI, AFD and CDC Deepen Their...

Edwin Syahruzad, President Director of PT SMI, and Rémy Rioux, Director General of Agence Française de Développement, signed a new partnership agreement to continue and strengthen cooperation between...

Voltalia sells a minority stake in its largest solar plant, SSM1&2, located in the Serra Branca cluster in Bra...

STOA, an investment fund specialized in infrastructure projects in developing and emerging countries and Voltalia (Euronext Paris, ISIN code: FR0011995588), an international player in renewable energi...

TNFD Releases First Beta Version of Nature-related Risk Management Framework for Market Consultation

The first beta version of framework marks an important step by the market to tackle the risk of nature loss and incorporate nature-related risk and opportunity analysis into the heart of corporate and...

Numerous and Promising Results for Sustainable Management of Forests After More Than 10 Years of Franco-Turkis...

On the occasion of the closing committee of their cooperation project, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Turkish General Directorate of Forests (OGM) and the National Office of the Forests-...

New Lock-Dam to Combat Climate Change Impacts Kim Son, Ninh Binh Province

A new lock-dam was inaugurated in Kim Son, Ninh Binh province, in presence of Cécile Vigneau, First Counsellor of the Embassy of France in Vietnam and Hervé Conan, Director of the Agence Française de...