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IUCN World Conservation Congress: "There Can Be No Real Development Without Taking Nature into Account"

How Public Development Banks can Support Biodiversity

Despite the decline in biodiversity around the natural world, solutions can be found in unexpected places. Public Development Banks can play a major role in mobilizing the finance necessary to protect...

France and AFD, Key Partners of IUCN

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the French government, and Agence Française de Développement enjoy close ties, as exemplified by the successive partnerships the two parties...

Assessment of Conservation Trust Funds: For the Benefit of Biodiversity

For the first time, a cross-cutting assessment of eight biodiversity conservation trust funds and their support by Agence française de développement (AFD) and the Fonds Français pour l’Environnement M...

One Planet Summit: Eight Months on, Progress on Biodiversity

Agence française de développement is taking very concrete action to implement a series of initiatives stemming from the One Planet Summit in January 2021 and focused on biodiversity. A progress report...

AFD “Macrodev” Publication: Africa’s Financing Needs in Question

Lessons learned from the IUCN World Conservation Congress

The World Conservation Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) took place on September 3–11 in Marseille. This gathering helped put biodiversity protection high on the in...

[Feature Report] Looking Back on the IUCN World Conservation Congress

With France, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) organized its World Conservation Congress from September 3 to 11, 2021 in Marseille.

Cambodia: 20 years of AFD Support for Rubber Producers

Since 1999, AFD has been supporting a sustainable and inclusive rubber industry in Cambodia. With the signature of a new project, which will assess the consequences of climate change for the sector, w...

AFD Backing in Laos for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources

Two new grants agreements have been signed in Laos, for a total of 9 million euros. One project supports coffee growers; the other provides support for sustainable management of natural resources. Tog...

Promoting Open Science: the full catalog of AFD Publications now available

On the eve of the International Day of Universal Access to Information on September 28, AFD confirms its commitment to open science, in particular by making our publications freely available.

AFD in the Middle East: Promoting Societal Cohesion with Vocational Support and Training

Transnational armed groups, inter-religious and inter-ethnic conflicts, population displacements - warfare may have changed, but human insecurity is still very much a major challenge today. On the hee...

UN Food Summit: “We Need to Recognize the Links between Climate Change and Food Security”

With the number of people suffering from hunger around the world continuing to rise, the UN held a world summit on the transformation of food systems on 23 September. Matthieu Le Grix, head of AFD’s A...

A Digital Response to the Health Crisis

Launched in Dakar, the DIRECCT program is supporting the connectivity and digitization of operators in the health, education and small business sectors. It’s a program that is helping people and polic...

Green energy in Vietnam: Expanded Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant will Reduce CO2 Emissions

AFD in Vietnam and Vietnam Electricity (EVN) have signed an agreement for a 70 million euro loan to boost the capacity of the Hoa Binh hydropower plant. This financing is in line with Vietnam's climat...

Innovation to Boost the Energy Transition

The first edition of the Digital Energy Challenge launched by the Agence française de développement named eight award winners for their contribution to the modernization and improvement of the energy...

Innovative African Start-Ups use Digital Technology to Meet Essential Needs

The TLcom Capital investment fund has been supported by Proparco, AFD Group's private sector subsidiary since 2017, and is contributing to the development of a dozen high-potential African start-ups t...

A Program for Champions: Soccer tackles gender inequality in West Africa

Agence Française de Développement and FIFA are sponsoring the "Championness program" implemented by the NGO Plan International in Benin, Guinea, and Togo. It aims to reduce gender inequalities through...

Looking ahead on AFD's 80th Anniversary: How do you see the world in 2101?

What will the world be like in 2101? On AFD's 80th anniversary, we hear from eight actors in the sporting, economic and social sectors, located all over the world. In a series of videos, they share th...

[Feature Report] AFD Group's 80th Anniversary: Our Work as Illustrated by Six Flagship Programs

For almost a century, Agence Française de Développement has financed and supported, on the ground, at the grassroots and from a distance, actions of solidarity all over the world. For the AFD Group -...