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Afric'Innov project: Supporting the development of innovative entrepreneurship in Africa
African incubators and innovative companies are experiencing structural difficulties in accessing financing. AFD is addressing them by supporting the Afric’innov program. This will create new jobs and...
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PEA - TCHAD Project: partnership for energy transition
Build an international training centre for electrical engineering in Chad – this is the ambition of the PEA-TCHAD project, which was selected for the first edition of the “Academia Partnerships Africa...
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Digital Tools to Attract Rural Youth to Agricultural Professions
The JINOV project enhances the appeal of the farming profession. It promotes information sharing and exchange between young rural people on social networks while facilitating access to training, infor...
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Appropriate funding to support African digital start-ups and their ecosystems
The Digital Africa seed fund supports the development of innovative entrepreneurship. It offers African start-ups technical and financial support. It also helps to strengthen the capacities of the hub...
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Kenya
Since 1997, AFD has supported Kenya in financing low-carbon infrastructure, promoting access to essential services, particularly in urban areas, supporting public policies through the private sector,...
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Supporting energy efficiency through an innovative financial model
AFD supports the implementation of large-scale energy saving measures by public entities assisted by EESL, an energy services company.
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Better water management and renewable energy production
Nexus North is an innovative infrastructure project that aims to provide equitable and sustainable access to drinking water, sanitation, and energy services for people living in the northern West Bank...
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Olkaria I and IV Geothermal power station
Foster Kenyan growth in low-carbon through geothermal electricity generation.
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Solar Kits to Facilitate Access to Sustainable Energy for Rural Households
The Green Microfinance Program is helping develop supply and demand for high-quality solar panels to facilitate access to energy for rural households in Cambodia.
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Improving access to electricity in remote areas
In order to improve access to electricity in the most remote areas, as well as service quality for households that already have access to electricity in rural areas, AFD is supporting ESKOM’s investme...
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Transnet and AFD sign major agreement to decarbonise South Africa’s freight sector
Transnet SOC Limited (“Transnet”) and France, through the Agence française de développement (AFD), have signed a EUR 300M (approximately ZAR5,8bn) loan agreement to enhance Transnet’s contribution t...
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Improve municipal drinking water utilities in Iraq
This project is a continuation of a first project whose objective was to support the reconstruction and development of the drinking water distribution service in Iraq. With this new funding, the ICRC...
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Fostering sustainable and inclusive growth of aquaculture
The CaPFish Aquaculture project aims to overcome the constraints of Cambodia’s aquaculture sector and ensure more sustainable growth, resilience to climate change and inclusion. This project also cont...
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Intensifying last-mile connectivity in rural Uganda
The aim of this project is to extend the supply of electricity from the national grid to local communities currently not accessing clean energy in order to spur sustainable economic and social develop...
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Improving water and sanitation services in Upper Egypt
This project involves a program to improve water and sanitation services in four Upper Egypt Governorates. It comprises several projects and is a replication of a similar ongoing project in the Nile D...
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Financing more environmentally friendly agricultural investment projects
AFD’s project is supporting the public bank Agrobanco with its aim of helping Peruvian farmers improve their agricultural practices, use more environmentally friendly technologies, and fight against t...
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Accessible and sustainable urban mobility in Pune
AFD together with the European Investment Bank, supports the MAHA-METRO in the construction of a metro line that will lead to sustainable, long-term improvements to urban mobility in Pune.
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Protecting urban heritage and revitalizing the center of the ancient city of Qixian
The local government of Qixian (Qi County) in Shanxi province in central China has launched a major program to protect, restore and showcase the historic center of Zhaoyu. The innovative initiative, s...
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A gas-fired trigeneration system helps Qingdao transition to a low-carbon model
In Qingdao in Shandong province, AFD is supporting the development of a natural gas-fired trigeneration power plant. This innovative energy generation project aims to reduce the carbon intensity of th...
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Peru
Peru has one of the best performing economies in South America. However, the country faces record urban growth and high vulnerability to climate change. Since 2014, AFD has been assisting it in achiev...
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