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Rengpor Mro: Protector of Bangladesh’s community forests
The Mro is the fourth-largest tribe in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. They are considered 'the people of the wind' as they tend to settle in the remotest areas of the highest hills. They share strong tie...
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Nigeria: children catch up on their dreams
The CATCH UP! project carried out by the Urumwa Art studio in partnership with the artist Uche Uguru, aims to meet this need for basic education through access to culture. Working for several months o...
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Albania: reducing inequalities between women and men regarding economic opportunities
This video was produced as part of a public policy loan provided by the AFD’s Western Balkans agency, in collaboration with the Global Bank. Thanks to this technical assistance program, AFD contribute...
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The Metis Fund: A Unique Initiative for Connecting Arts and Development
Launched in 2021 by Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Metis Fund promotes a better integration of the arts and culture in official development assistance. This financial framework...
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AFD Group and the Middle East
AFD Group is a major partner of Middle Eastern countries. Its action aims to identify and promote sustainable development pathways on the premise of mitigating vulnerabilities that compromise the futu...
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AFD Group and Eurasia
Eurasia’s Regional Office covers a wide geographical area, from the borders of the European Union to the heart of the Eurasian landmass. Four sub-regions compose this area: the Western Balkans, Turkey...
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Metis: a unique initiative to link arts and development
Launched in 2021 by Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Metis fund promotes better integration of the arts and culture into official development assistance. This financial mechanism allows ar...
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Alex Chunet: "At AFD, we use artificial intelligence to analyze imagery"
A partnership agreement was signed between AFD and the National Space Study Center to promote the adoption by AFD of geospatial technologies for its research and development projects. This new collab...
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Women's Voices: Gender inequalities in Cambodia
In the process of raising women’s voices and in connection with the corresponding exhibition, AFD invites you to take the time to listen to them. To listen to the testimonies of four women from differ...
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Olga Koukoui: "Kampala has strong political will to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions"
CICLIA is a facility funded by the European Union, SECO and AFD that supports more than 30 cities in sub-Saharan Africa in the preparation of low-carbon and resilient urban strategies and projects....
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Gabriel Charasse: " Bobo-Dioulasso will be particularly exposed to climate change events"
CICLIA is a facility funded by the EU, SECO and AFD that supports more than 30 cities in sub-Saharan Africa in the preparation of low-carbon and resilient urban strategies and projects. With 800,000 i...
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Romain Dissaux: "in Conakry this result in a system for capturing biogas"
CICLIA is a facility funded by the EU, SECO and AFD that supports more than 30 cities in sub-Saharan Africa in the preparation of low-carbon and resilient urban strategies and projects. The city of C...
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The ceremony 80 years by your side - the replay
To mark AFD's 80th anniversary, a special event has been broadcast live online on December 2. It promises to be a kind of polyphonic concert, where words, emotions and points of view from all over the...
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Riyong Mro: preserving biodiversity through community seed banking
The complex and labour-intensive characteristics of jhum or shifting cultivation pose a challenge for many farmers like Riong Mro. In the Chittagong Hill Tracts, a scarcity of seeds had left his commu...
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Women's Voices
The exhibition “Women’s Voices”, launched in Cambodia by AFD, aims to convey and raise the voices of inspiring Cambodian women involved in AFD-supported projects and to highlight their stories, their...
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Energy Transition Strategy 2019-2022 - Mid-Term Review
AFDD Group’s Energy Transition Strategy 2019-2022 was approved by the Group’s Board of Directors in mid- 2019. Its objective is to “accelerate the energy transition in developing countries in the dire...
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Studies and Research - 2020 Activity Report
At the heart of AFD Group research are inequalities and efforts to reduce them, the environmental transition, management of shared resources and economic diagnoses of countries where AFD operates....
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Turkey: a new state hospital in Hatay
Built with the financing of the EU under the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRiT), and implemented by AFD under a delegation of funds, the construction and equipment of the new hospital was led by t...
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Social Assistance for Informal workers
This paper exposes the measures extended to informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study analyzes two South-American countries which have a high percentage of informality, Colombia and Bra...
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Caribbean region: Graphic narrative for mobilizing people against the spread of sargassum
In the Caribbean arc, the objective of this "Metis" project, through the comic strip, is to mobilize against the spread of Sargassum (brown algae) by raising awareness of the environmental and socio-e...
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