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Mauritania
A bridge between the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa, Mauritania is a large and diverse country, home to 5 million people across more than one million square kilometers. It is rich in natural resources...
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Julien CALAS
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Research Officer on Biodiversity
Biodiversity, protected areas, biodiversity financing, rural development
Julien Calas is an agricultural engineer specialized in development economics, who graduated from AgroParisTech after previous university studies in biology.
Claire ZANUSO
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Economist, Head of AFD's Emerging Tech Lab
Development economics, labor markets, impact evaluation, impact of natural disasters, geospatial impact evaluation
Stéphanie LEYRONAS
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Research Officer
Commons preservation, natural resources management, service management, development economics
Oskar LECUYER
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Research Officer, Environmental Economist
Environmental and climate economics, environmental sustainability, blue economy
Currently in Bangkok, Oskar Lecuyer is an environmental economist with AFD.
Antoine GODIN
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Economist - Modeler
Macroeconomic modeling, GEMMES, economy and climate, employment, finance, structural and technological changes
Antoine Godin is responsible for the development and monitoring of AFD's program on macroeconomic modeling tools for the ecological transition, including the GEMMES model (“General Monetary...
Etienne ESPAGNE
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Economist
Environmental and climate economics, development economics, energy transition, inequalities and environment, climate policy, climate finance
Sylvie BOYER
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General Secretary – Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Management Committee of Agence Française de Développement
Laurent BIDDISCOMBE
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Director (Appointed on: 05/07/2024), Executive Director for Global Client Solutions at AFD, Board of Directors
Anda DAVID
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Economist, scientific coordinator of the EU-AFD Facility on Inequalities
Inequalities, sustainability, poverty, labor market, migration
Hélène EHRHART
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Economist
Public Finance Management, Development Economics, Macroeconomic Analysis
Summary: Results & Outlook 2025-2026 – AFD Group
In 2025, AFD Group maintained a high level of activity in a more unstable environment. With €13.7 billion in commitments, more than 1,120 new projects, €7.8 billion allocated to climate action, and so...
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The Integration of Food Aid Programmes in Niger‘s Development Policies: the 2004-2005 Food Crisis
The 2004-2005 food crisis was doubled by a politicoinstitutional crisis that bears witness to the lack of coordination among the various players‘ programmes and raises the following question: what mal...
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Sectoral aid in practice
Since the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, developing countries and donors have increasingly favoured the development of sectoral aid, which represents a substantially different approach from t...
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The forest sector in countries of the Congo Basin: 20 years of AFD Intervention
The concept of sustainable forest management emerged at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992. It entails the conservation and enhancement, for the welfare of present and future generations, of the eco...
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