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Irrigated agriculture: A service-based approach to put irrigators at the center of policy formulation
Irrigated agriculture can help address challenges of food security and sovereignty, develop regions and farms, improve trade balance, and contribute to climate change adaptation. An irrigated area is...
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2022 Sustainable Development Goals Bond Reporting
Since 2020, AFD has prioritised sustainable issues to reflect the significant overlap of environmental and social impacts with its action aimed at supporting the just transition. In 2021, the...
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Kenya: specialist doctors in Kisumu City
In Kisumu, Kenya's third largest city, access to healthcare remains limited. This is why AFD has supported the extension of the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu, which aims to improve access to healthcare,...
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Infographic – Our activity in favor of Agriculture, Rural Development and Biodiversity
In 2022, €1.18 billion committed to agriculture, rural development and Biodiversity. Our commitments have grown sharply in Asia, but Africa remains a priority for AFD in this sector. Clim...
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Making green housing more accessible to Turkish households
Making our buildings greener is a crucial challenge to mitigate climate change and adapt to its effects. In Turkey, AFD is collaborating with the public bank VakifBank to encourage households to buy a...
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How is improved power distribution helping Dhaka businesses?
In Dhaka, AFD is supporting a project aimed at a more stable electricity supply in several neighborhoods of the Bangladeshi capital. This, to the great relief of small businesses, whose survival depen...
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Evaluation of projects with climate adaptation co-benefits in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar (2007-2018)
Since 2015, AFD’s financing for projects with "adaptation" co-benefits - helping to respond to the risks associated with global warming while targeting other development objectives - has risen sharply...
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Climate-financial trap: an empirical approach to detecting situations of double vulnerability
The present study proposes to build a systematic approach to detecting and specifying situations of double vulnerability. Double vulnerability refers to a situation where a country combines climate an...
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AFD Group and Europe: Together for Sustainable Partnerships
AFD Group and the European Union (EU) are driven by shared convictions. We work together to amplify the impact of our financing on the ground and the effectiveness of development assistance. Our coope...
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Peru: in need of fresh stimulus
Driven by the boom in its mining sector and its rigorous macroeconomic policies, since the early 2000s Peru has experienced a period of spectacular development, described as the “Peruvian Miracle”. No...
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International Financial Architecture and Financial Engineering for the Climate and Nature
The COP climate and biodiversity negotiations often focus on the issue of the financial resources that are mobilized or need to be mobilized for action and investment related to the climate or biodive...
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Minka, Peace and Resilience Fund - Activity report 2022
The Minka Peace and Resilience Fund is AFD's peacebuilding tool dedicated to territories affected by crises or violent conflicts. Positioned on the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, Minka sup...
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Sport: an accelerator of sustainable development
Sport has the power to bring people together around common values and contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially for health, education and gender equality....
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Evaluation Summary - AFD’s interventions in the perennial crops sector: rubber outgrowerplantations projects p...
The overall objectives of ROPP IV and V (CGH1094-CGH1124) are: to help achieve a lasting reduction of rural poverty; to contribute to increasing export revenue; to contribute to mitigate cli...
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Evaluation of AFD - Bank of Kigali projects (2011 – 2022), Rwanda (CRW1023-CRW1045-CRW1046)
The overall objectives of the projects with Bank of Kigali were to support the expansion in the bank’s corporate loan portfolio, specifically to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), by reducing...
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Cross-Evaluation of 3 water supply projects in Cambodia (Phnom Penh and Siem Reap) (CKH1121-CKH1174-CKH1161)
The Greater Phnom Penh Water Supply Project (2013-2016), known as “Niroth 2”, aimed to expand the production capacity of the Niroth 1 water treatment plant. The project to extend Chamcar Morn’s water...
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Infographic – Our Water and Sanitation Commitments in 2023
Despite an international situation that continues to be particularly uncertain, AFD Group’s activity in the water and sanitation sector reached an unprecedented level in 2023. With 1.8 billion euro...
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How to assess coastal flood risk in data-sparse coastal lowlands? Accurate information on land elevation is k...
With rising sea level, the densely populated coastal lowlands in the world, many of them located in the Global South, face increasing flood risks and thus require reliable flood risk assessments. As t...
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Eurasia and Beyond
From the Western Balkans to the Indo-Pacific, and including the Near East and Central Asia, the region covers countries with diverse development trajectories. The Eastern European and Asian regions pl...
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Georgia - Put to the test by the war in Ukraine
A small Western Asian country, Georgia has an outward-looking economic model,mainly based on services such as trade and tourism. The Georgian economy is thus highly vulnerable to external shocks and w...
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