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Finance in Fiji: Backing Businesses and Creating Jobs
In a pioneering program in the Pacific, timely finance is creating gainful employment on the ground. AFD Group and the European Union are supporting Fiji Development Bank with a financial guarantee en...
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Haiti: Continuing to Improve Maternal and Child Health Services
Haiti has the highest rates of maternal, child and under-five infant mortality in the Americas. With the country's health sector sorely lacking in trained personnel and financial resources, AFD is bui...
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Mauritius: Africa’s First Multisport Olympic Academy to Train World Class Athletes
A grueling regime of close to four hours of training per day. Coaching in sports ranging from judo to soccer, as well as in nutrition and leadership. It’s all part of a program to train youngsters for...
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Costa Rica: Working together towards Carbon Neutrality
Costa Rica hosts close to 5% of the world's terrestrial flora and fauna – an immense amount for a small South American country one-tenth the size of France. It's also home to a wealth of biodiversity...
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Taxation: a Key Source of Revenue to Finance Development in Africa
Tax is one of the few certainties in life. But governments around the world have a hard time collecting it, and struggle financially as a result. Yet more robust fiscal regimes can raise the revenue n...
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The Pacific Ocean: Working with Island States Vulnerable to Climate Change
Emmanuel Macron made a landmark visit to Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea in July, the first by a French President since Charles de Gaulle. The visit comes as climate change poses enormous risks for count...
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Burundi: the Dedicated Teams helping People Deal with HIV
In Burundi, about 2.9% of the population is HIV-positive, more than four times the global average. Help for those living with the virus can range from providing medical treatment to education and the...
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With just months to go to the Paris Olympics, we chart AFD’s work in Sports & Development
The countdown is on to 26 July, 2024. With just months to go before next year's Olympic Games begin in Paris, it’s time to take stock of AFD’s initiatives involving sports and development, particularl...
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Oceans: A New System to Protect Marine Biodiversity in Argentina - and Beyond
With 5,000 km of coastline, Argentina is working towards establishing, for the first time, a national system to monitor the abundant coastal and marine biodiversity around the country and beyond. By k...
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Congo: Facilitating Access to Water – and Measuring the Benefits
For the past several years, the PILAEP project has backed the instalment of standpipes to facilitate access to drinking water in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's greater Kinshasa area. A project...
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Young People Entering Morocco’s Industrial Ecosystem via Public-Private Partnerships
Morocco has been developing a professional training system to better serve the needs of its industrial sector. A recent evaluation of such AFD-backed programs laud their success in the recruitment of...
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Honing Training Programs in Senegal to Boost Key Employment Sectors
One of the central challenges facing developing and middle-income economies is matching their educational and training sectors to employment markets. AFD has been supporting Senegal set up vocational...
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Protecting Biodiversity: the Key Role of Indigenous Communities
Worldwide, an estimated 400 to 500 million Indigenous people occupy 20% of the earth’s territory. Yet unsustainable development has caused not only the displacement of countless people, but also the d...
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Sports, Education and Training Together in Togo
As a key player in the education sector in Togo, AFD recently participated alongside the country’s Education Ministry in the final phases of the school and university sports championships. More than 8...
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Artificial Intelligence & the Sustainable Development Goals: a New Frontier
Public development banks are taking an interest in AI tools to improve the impact of their funding, starting with AFD, which presented its SDG Prospector in June. For Régis Marodon, Sustainable Financ...
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5 Ways to Deal with Drought in Africa and Beyond
As climate change exacerbates droughts and makes countries’ water supplies even more unpredictable, development projects in Africa are using a growing number of anti-drought techniques such as wastewa...
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Setting up School Canteens to Stop Kids from Dropping Out
The lack of school canteens can have serious repercussions for children, their education and their lives, from undernourishment and fatigue at school, to dropping out altogether. In Burundi's province...
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Gambia
The Gambia is the smallest State of mainland Africa and one of the priority countries for French development assistance. It is faced with heavy public debt and must catch up in terms of infrastructure...
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Relieving Water Stress in Uganda by Building Vital Infrastructure
Water stress is worsening in southwestern Uganda every year. People spend hours waiting in line for water without knowing whether any will be left when it’s their turn. Divers plunge underwater to unb...
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How do we Measure Adaptation to Climate Change?
Since 2015, AFD Group has stepped up its commitment to initiatives that boost adaptation to climate change. A recent evaluation of 35 projects with an "adaptation" component in sub-Saharan Africa enab...
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