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A scoping study on coastal vulnerability to relative sealevel rise in the Gulf of Guinea
The Gulf of Guinea's low-lying soft coastline is highly vulnerable to coastal erosion and relative sea-level rise (rSLR). Large capital cities and core economic activities are concentrated along the c...
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A scoping review of the vulnerability of Nigeria's coastland to sea-level rise and the contribution of land su...
Nigeria’s low-lying coastal region, with its various economic activities, is vulnerable to global sea-level rise triggered by climate change. In some areas, this threat can be amplified by land subsid...
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AFD Group’s 2022 Results : The Essentials
For its first year of existence in an expanded format, the AFD Group has met its objectives in 2022. With Proparco, its subsidiary dedicated to the private sector, and now Expertise France, France's i...
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Inequality Mapping: A Research Facility to Better Understand Inequalities
This report presents the findings of the project “Mapping of inequalities reducing initiatives” among European countries, conducted at the initiative of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities (I...
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How does AFD work with CSOs?
Over the past fifteen years, AFD has considerably broadened its methods of collaboration with CSOs, both in terms of financing projects and activities and in terms of producing knowledge or mobilizing...
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“Multiple, polarized and vulnerable”: A socio-economic exploration of Ghana’s middle class
By using mixed quantitative-qualitative methods combining micro-data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey 2016-2017 (GLSS7) and original qualitative data collected from semi-structured interviews in...
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Modelling economy for a sustainable future with Devrim Yilmaz
Ecological transitions are a real revolution. They can have major effects - both positive and negative – on employment, imports and exports, financial stability, or public finances. They induce a glob...
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Support for Civil Society Organizations – 2022 Activity Report
The year 2022 was marked by multiple crises, which have widened inequalities and often worsened living conditions in AFD Group's countries of operation. Civil society organizations (CSOs) once again t...
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Summit for a New Global Financing Pact: Increasing Investment in Sustainable Infrastructure in Emerging and De...
How can financing for sustainable infrastructure in emerging and developing countries be increased? In the run-up to the summit for a New Global Financial Pact, representatives of some sixty public an...
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Climate - 2022 Activity Report
Climate and development are two tightly bound emergencies and the fight against climate change is a priority for AFD Group. The first development bank to commit to aligning its finance with the Paris...
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Climate: all migrants tomorrow?
A growing proportion of human societies are now threatened by climate change. In 2022 alone, 32 million people, for example, had to leave their homes, most often as part of internal and temporary migr...
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Gender Equality – 2022 Activity Report
Since 2020, AFD has asserted its position as a committed actor in the international ecosystem on gender. Having forged strategic partnerships with the United Nations and multilateral and bilateral ban...
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Infographic – Our Activity to Support Civil Society Organizations in 2022
In 2022, civil society organizations once again mobilized to address the needs of people in many fields of action. With 465 million euros and nearly 300 CSOs assisted in 2022, AFD Group reinforced...
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Corporate Social Responsibility & Activity Report 2023
AFD Group presents a “100% SDG” corporate social responsibility and activity report. The 2023 edition concretely reflects the alignment of the Group’s activities with the Sustainable Development Goals...
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Preliminary comparative analysis of biodiversity measurement approaches for public development banks
This report is extracted from a study to prepare a comparative analysis of six biodiversity metrics submitted to Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and De...
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Infographic- Our Activity in Support of the Cultural and Creative Industries in 2022
The cultural and creative industries help to strengthen social ties and advance development priorities such as education, gender equality, citizenship and governance. Culture is a common good, an...
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A partnership for the energy transition in Vietnam
AFD and Vietnam Electricity (EVN) have been partners for over 20 years. To illustrate the strength of this collaboration, let us take you on a tour of two emblematic projects supported by AFD: Se San...
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Drinking water for everyone, everywhere at Kinshasa
As part of the Debt Reduction and Development Contract (C2D) signed between France and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), AFD granted in May 2014 a grant of €18 million to finance the project for...
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Thinking macroeconomic vulnerabilities in the context of low-carbon transition
The transition to a low-carbon and climate resilient economy is a process of important restructuring of the productive network where sunset industries will decline and sometimes disappear and where su...
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Environmental and Social Complaints Mechanism - 2021 Activity Report
In 2021, Agence Française de Développement continued its commitment to the beneficiaries of its projects by handling the complaints received through its Environmental and Social Complaints Mechanism,...
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