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India: Child-friendly urban mobility
The CITIIS (City Investments to Innovate, Integrate and Sustain) program supports Indian cities in implementing urban infrastructure projects that are integrated, innovation driven and sustainable. Su...
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ADB-AFD: An Ambitious Partnership for Development
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group have been prolific partners for over 20 years. We cofinanced over 70 projects amounting to $13.8 billion. Since o...
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Transport and Mobility - 2020 Activity Report
The mobility of people and goods is a prerequisite for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indeed, it plays a fundamental role in providing people with access to employment an...
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Debt sustainability in Africa: state of play and future challenges
Almost fifteen years after the last debt relief initiatives were implemented by the international community, some African countries have either recently defaulted on their public debt, subscribed to t...
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Preserving marine biodiversity in West Papua, Indonesia
The Bird's Head Seascape is a global marine biodiversity hotspot located in West Papua, Indonesia. To preserve its richness while ensuring sustainable livelihoods for communities, the Blue Action Fund...
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Thomas Mélonio : “we believe in the role that science and research play in development”
Supporting national research activities and institutions and structuring networks of researchers in developing countries is a recent focus of AFD's activities and is fully in line with its strategy. T...
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AFD Group 2020 Results: The Essentials
With the boost in France’s development policy and the mobilization of French stakeholders and other public development banks, AFD Group has been able to mount a rapid response to the crisis caused by...
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AFD Group Economic and Financial Transition Strategy
The Economic and Financial Transition Strategy is one of AFD’s 6 transitions. Its objective: support the transformation of economies to build economic, social and environmental balances sustainable ov...
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AFD Group Economic and Financial Transition
Let’s change horizon, let’s transform the economy. This is the goal of the economic and financial transition. Its guiding principle: build a longer-term vision of the economy to ensure that its object...
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Urban Development and Support for Local Authorities - 2020 Activity Report
AFD provides cities with support for taking up the challenges of urban growth, social and territorial inequalities and territories’ vulnerability. It promotes sustainable cities as a process of design...
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Digital Transition - 2021-2025 Strategy
Faced with geopolitical threats in which digital technology is a vector, this AFD Group strategy bears a specifically French and European signature: that of digital commons at the service of citizens...
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Minka Peace and Resilience Fund - 2020 Activity Report
As crises become longer and more complex, AFD Group has made a key commitment to sustainable peace, the climate and social cohesion. This commitment is part of France’s “Prevention, Resilience and Sus...
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Sahel - 2020 Activity Report
The Greater Sahel region was once a prosperous region in Africa. The region is clearly defined by its geography and climate. It also has the lowest GDP per capita of all the six African regions i...
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100% Social Link - 2021-2025 Strategy
AFD Group uses the social link – that is, the ties between individuals, social groups, territories, organisations and institutions – as the foundation for sustainable and shared development. Our 10...
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AFD's 100% Social Link Strategy
For AFD, the social link is the condition for sustainable and shared development. Strengthening the links between individuals, between social groups, and between territories will make it possible to i...
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Climate - 2020 Activity Report
To mitigate the increasing effects of climate change, it is necessary to strengthen the resilience of people and ecosystems in vulnerable countries. At the same time, keeping the global temperature in...
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Central Africa - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy
At the heart of the African continent, Central Africa is a diverse area that is loosely and unevenly integrated regionally and marked by contradictory dynamics and tensions which can weaken cohesion,...
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Youth inclusion in labour markets in Niger: Gender dynamics and livelihoods
This paper uses a mixed methods approach to identify factors that challenge and enable young adults’ inclusion in the world of work in Niger, through a gender-streamlined analysis of different poverty...
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Mixed methods approach for research on youth inclusion in labour markets in Niger
This article briefly explores how to combine two qualitative methodologies to inspect the topic of youth inclusion in Niger via a mixed methods analysis. It presents the ethnographic approach develope...
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Andean Region - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy
This document presents the strategy of the Regional Office (RO) of the Andean Region (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru), created in 2018 and based in Bogota. The goal of this strategy will be to pr...
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