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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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Evaluating 15 Years of Support for Development
This document is a summary of the final report of the external evaluation of 15 years of AFD and FFEM interventions related to “the development of rural territories or landscapes”3 in sub-Saharan Afri...
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Mobility and transport- Synthesis of the AFD Group sectoral intervention framework
The challenge in the sector: Contribute to the achievement of the SDGs while adhering to low-carbon and resilient development trajectories Mobility is determined by individual choices made by a mul...
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Tanzania
Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa and has one of the biggest and youngest populations on the continent. The third largest economy in the sub-region, the country is experiencing dynamic gr...
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Climate - 2018 Activity Report
The effects of climate disturbances are putting people and ecosystems in peril, especially in the developing countries most vulnerable to climate change. To limit the increase in global temperature by...
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AFD and the energy transition in Vietnam
In line with Vietnam’s revised Power Development Plan, electricity production in 2030 will be four times the level of 2014. This revised plan emphasises the development of renewable energies (ENR), wh...
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AFD and Cambodia
The French Development Agency or Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has been present in Cambodia since 1993. The Agency supports Cambodia in territorial, ecological and social transitions while f...
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AFD and the Environment in Cambodia
Despite its low contribution to global warming, Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world, which directly threatens the country’s prodigious biodiversity. AFD is...
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AFD and the Energy in Cambodia
In terms of energy, Cambodia faces major challenges: more than 20 years after the end of the social unrest that ravaged the country, it has yet to rebuild, develop and diversify its energy production,...
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AFD and the Financial Sector in Cambodia
Cambodia’s financial sector has developed recently, particularly through microfinance institutions. Many banks have also opened in the country in recent years, which is a proof of its economic strengt...
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AFD and the Water in Cambodia
In Phnom Penh, the drinking water system is of good quality. But in the provinces, the sanitation services are still largely undeveloped. AFD has been engaged in this sector in Cambodia since 2004. Th...
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AFD and the Rural Development in Cambodia
80% of the Cambodian population live in rural areas and 45% of the working population are engaged in agriculture. The primary sector still accounts for 23% of Cambodia’s GDP, despite a steady decrease...
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AFD and the Professional Training in Cambodia
Cambodia’s growth is one of the most robust in the region. However, the dynamism of the economy faces a number of structural weaknesses, notably related to the lack of qualifications among the workfor...
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Pakistan - 2018-2022 Strategy
In accordance with its intervention strategy for Asia,15 the Group sets itself three objectives in Pakistan consistent with 100% Paris Agreement commitment to low-carbon and resilient development and...
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Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Uptake, Reliability, and Complementary Factors for Economic Impact
Access to reliable electricity is the backbone of any modern economy. It is even more important with the digital revolution. If African nations want to see their economies transform, the issue of elec...
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