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TechTalks: Innovation Driving Transitions
Offered by AFD's Emerging Tech Lab, TechTalks webinars offer a space to explore the major digital changes that are transforming development.
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Research Conversations: Interactive Webinars on Sustainable Development
Are you interested in the new development research coming out? Would you like to see the latest results from studies carried out by AFD and its partners, and talk with researchers? Then the “Research...
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The climate transition requires social justice
The World Inequality Conference, which AFD supports as a partner, will bring together researchers, development practitioners, and policymakers in Paris from 4 to 6 June 2026 to discuss the links betwe...
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CNEPS Initiative: Developing Climate and Nature Economic Policy Scenarios
The Climate and Nature Economic Policy Scenarios (CNEPS) initiative develops forward-looking economic scenarios that integrate climate change, biodiversity loss and transition dynamics into macroecono...
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Research on just pathways for transition and adaptation
This AFD research program analyzes and models the various effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. It also examines how these dynamics interact to reshape societies, ecosystems, and economies.
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Track Adapt: Developing a Methodology to Measure Progress on Urban Climate Change Adaptation
The Track Adapt research project aims to develop a new methodology, based on the GAP-Track monitoring system, to closely assess progress on urban adaptation to climate change. It will help build a sha...
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Accelerating Infrastructure Development: an investment priority
Infrastructure can range from hydroelectric power plants to solar mini-grids, large-scale urban metro projects to rural roads, and water treatment plants in big cities to water reserves in rural areas...
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Solidarity- and Sustainability-driven Investments
This lies at the heart of our mandate. Solidarity- and sustainability-driven investments (SSIs) are financial or non-financial actions that seek to promote the sustainable development of countries thr...
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Working by your side
AFD Group has reaffirmed its focus on regional realities, its respect for partners, and its geographical intelligence. Over the 2025-2030 period, AFD Group is committed to basing action on an in-depth...
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Quiterie PINCENT
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Executive Director of Resource Mobilization, Partnerships, and Communications
L'économie africaine 2026: English version of Introduction & 1st Chapter
Year on year since 2020, L’Économie Africaine has established itself as an essential snapshot of the continent’s major challenges, offering nuanced, data-driven analysis unfettered by accepted ideas....
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Africa Renewable Energy Scale-Up Facility (ARE Scale-up) - Activity Report
The Africa Renewable Energy (ARE) Scale-Up Facility program aims to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy in Africa and strengthen sustainable access to energy. With a budget of €16.3 million,...
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In Lebanon, eating healthy at school to learn better
In Lebanon’s public schools, the economic crisis is weakening families and increasing the risk of students dropping out.
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The renewal of urban public transport in Africa
In response to rapid urbanization and booming demographics, African cities are reimagining their transport systems. After decades dominated by informal modes of transport – such as minibuses and motor...
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AFD Group and innovation
Whether social, technological, financial, or methodological, innovation is central to AFD Group’s activity and to the action of the two funds it hosts: the French Facility for Global Environment (FFE...
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Handbook on Inequality Measurement for Country Studies - Updated version
Writing a country level study on inequality can be an intimidating task for researchers. How does one begin to conceptualize such a study? What needs to be included? What sorts of analyses are require...
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International economy: Groundswells in relatively calm waters
Amidst a geopolitical environment undergoing reconfiguration, many economic paradigms once thought to be immutable are now shifting before our eyes. This paper aims to provide a brief overview of them...
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AFD and Vanuatu
Vanuatu, an archipelago of 83 islands with nearly 330,000 inhabitants and a GDP of USD 1.12 billion, is particularly vulnerable to climate risks and natural disasters. Cyclones, earthquakes, and risin...
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How can mutually beneficial economic interactions between transhumant and sedentary populations be promoted in...
In the Sahel, traditional agropastoral systems involve economic and social interactions between transhumant herders and sedentary populations. While economic complementarity fosters the exchange of go...
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Biodiversity, macroeconomics and sovereign risk
This study explores the links between biodiversity, macroeconomics and sovereign risk, with a focus on emerging and developing countries (EDCs). As a starting point, it details the channels identified...
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