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Guarantees: instruments to mobilize local resources

AFD Group offers its clients guarantees designed to facilitate access to financing for small businesses and microfinance institutions by reducing the risk borne by local banks when providing loans. Th...

Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4)

Ten years after the Addis Ababa Conferenceand the historic climate agreement signed at COP21 in Paris, the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) will be held, under the aegi...

Local CSOs

AFD offers several mechanisms to support local civil society organizations (CSOs), primarily by issuing calls for expressions of interest (AMI) and the CSO Initiatives Facility (I-OSC). AFD provides s...

States or State-guaranteed companies

As the main operator of France’s Official Development Assistance policy, AFD Group works closely with foreign countries. We offer you a range of customized products to finance and support your structu...

Local authorities in foreign countries and local public actors

AFD Group is devoting an increasing share of its activity to directly financing foreign local authorities.

Funds and facilities: a source of complementary financing

Whether for project preparation or to finance specific themes (such as conflict prevention or climate adaptation), Agence Française de Développement (AFD) manages or leverages funds and facilities tha...

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Palestine

Present on the ground since 1998, AFD Group focuses its operations in Palestine on three priority areas: access to basic services, human capital development, and support to the private sector. The war...

AFD and 2050 Pathways bring together ministries of finance to strengthen climate action ahead of COP30

Addis Ababa, 4 September 2025 – Agence Française de Développement (AFD), together with the 2050 Pathways Platform, convened a high-level South-South peer exchange of ministries of finance from Africa,...

China

Since 2004, AFD has been working in partnership with the Chinese authorities to develop cooperation activities for sustainable development and the fight against climate change. The projects financed b...

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Crisis and post-crisis calls for projects (APCC)

The crisis and post-crisis calls for projects (APCC) program is used to co-develop projects with French and international CSOs and nonprofit organizations based on specifications set by AFD to address...

Minka: a fund for peace and resilience

The Minka Peace and Resilience Fund is dedicated to peacebuilding in fragile, crisis and conflict areas. It finances projects in four crisis areas (Sahel, Lake Chad area, Central African Republic and...

FEXTE: a cooperation and project preparation instrument

The Fund for Technical Expertise and Experience Transfers (FEXTE) finances technical expertise in the form of feasibility and project preparation studies in countries that receive ODA.

The Fund for Innovation in Development: innovating against poverty and inequality

The Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) finances solutions with high potential impact on tackling poverty and inequalities in low- and middle-income countries. The Fund is backed up with a rigoro...

Overseas France Fund: supporting public engineering in the French Overseas Territories

The Overseas France Fund (FOM) assists the French Overseas Territories with the implementation of structural projects and their public policies.

The Cityriz guarantee: promoting sustainable investments in Africa

In conjunction with the European Union, AFD has developed this dedicated guarantee to encourage banks to take on the risk of supporting local authorities and allowing cities of all sizes to take out l...

AdaptAction: supporting climate change adaptation strategies

AdaptAction assists countries particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change with the implementation of their adaptation strategies. This AFD Group program offers technical assistance and ca...