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The sustainable valuation of the Congo Basin forests: A real possibility?
Spanning some 268 million hectares across Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic, and Equatorial Guinea, the forests of the Co...
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Reducing Inequalities: Insights from the EU-AFD Research Facility
In this summary, find more information about the lessons learned, tools, and partnerships developed within the framework of the EU-AFD Facility for Research on Inequalities between 2020 and 2025.
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Beyond Redistribution: Market Power, Firm Structure, and the South African Labour Market
This paper examines how firm structure and market power shape inequality in South Africa. Moving beyond a narrow focus on fiscal redistribution, it introduces a pre-distribution lens that highlights t...
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Ameliorating the Consequences of Coal Job Destruction - A Just Transition Policy Matrix Approach
Ensuring a just energy transition in South Africa requires supporting workers to absorb the negative shocks of structural change. Central to this is the design of a comprehensive social protection pac...
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Public Employment Programmes and Social Protection in South Africa
What is the role of Public Employment Programmes (PEPs) in South Africa’s social protection system, and how do they contribute to employment, inclusion, and inequality reduction? The Extension of the...
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Exploratory Analysis of the Linkages and Synergies between the Walang Gutom Program and Other Adaptive Social ...
This study explores how a social protection programme, the Walang Gutom Program Program, can improve management of climate risks and strengthen climate resilience in the Philippines by strengthening i...
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Grants: a stand-alone tool or as a complement to loans
AFD provides grants to fund initiatives in the health and education sectors, as well as for rural and urban development and infrastructure projects.
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What role can food vouchers play in strengthening climate resilience?
Climate change threatens to intensify poverty, inequality and food insecurity. In countries like the Philippines, extreme weather (cyclones, floods or droughts) could disrupt livelihoods and exacerbat...
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AFD Group: Partner of the 8th Paris Peace Forum
Since 2018, the Paris Peace Forum has aimed to reinvent diplomacy in a world shaped by geopolitical, climatic, and technological upheavals. For its eighth edition, the Forum will strive to promote sol...
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Banque de France - Ferdi - AFD International Conference
This conference follows on from a conference held in July 2021 entitled "Facing climate change: what financial choices for Africa?", whose conclusions highlighted Africa's disproportionate vulnerabili...
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Audrey ROJKOFF
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Head of the Climate and Nature Division
Climate finance, sustainable developpement, climate change adapation, mitigation
AFD Group at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
Every four years, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress brings together nature conservation experts to determine priorities and actions for sustainable...
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How AFD Group aligned its operations with the SDGs
Adopted in 2015 by the United Nations, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets – or sub-goals – aim to address the world's most critical challenges by 2030: poverty, inequality, cli...
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France through AFD inaugurates urban fabric initiative project to upgrade informal settlements in Nairobi, Ken...
Nairobi, September 4 – Agence Française de Développement (AFD), together with the Government of Kenya and the Nairobi City County Government, officially launched the Urban Fabric Initiative (UFI) proj...
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Addressing the persistence of female genital mutilation: Current situation and prospects for effective interve...
With Unicef estimating that 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) globally, the international human rights agenda sets the goal of eliminating the practice. Yet, d...
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Supporting BRD’s Strategic Transformation and Sustainable Growth
AFD supports Rwanda’s Development Bank (BRD) in a major transformation program to enhance its capacity to finance priority sectors and integrate climate and social sustainability into its core operati...
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AFD and 2050 Pathways bring together ministries of finance to strengthen climate action ahead of COP30
Addis Ababa, 4 September 2025 – Agence Française de Développement (AFD), together with the 2050 Pathways Platform, convened a high-level South-South peer exchange of ministries of finance from Africa,...
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Supporting the Bank of Kigali’s climate transformation
AFD is supporting the Bank of Kigali (BK) in accelerating its transition towards a climate-aligned business model. The project will help the bank integrate climate considerations into its governance,...
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Team Europe strengthens partnership with Kenya to advance water and sanitation sector
Kisumu, September 5 – The groundbreaking ceremony for the rehabilitation and extension of Kisumu’s water pipelines network under Work Package 2, Lot 1 of the Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Program...
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