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Eastern Africa - 10 Flagship Projects in the Energy Sector
A committed partner in Eastern Africa for nearly 40 years, AFD Group supports countries across the region in developing sustainable energy systems. Over the past two decades, AFD Group has invested mo...
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AFD Group in the Enlargement region and Eastern Neighbourhood: taking on the challenge of European convergence
AFD Group supports the Eastern Neighbourhood countries in their pathway to join the European Union (EU), whether they be candidates for membership or countries engaged in a process of convergence towa...
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Cultural and creative industries: Activity report 2025
The year 2025 confirms the role of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) as a cross-cutting issue for sustainable development. AFD Group is expanding its commitment to the sector by mobilizing vario...
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Sport and development: Activity report 2025
In 2025, sports confirmed its role as a lever for social cohesion, equality, and inclusion. With more than €80 M in new commitments and an active portfolio surpassing €350 M, AFD Group supports public...
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Ukraine – 4 flagship projects supporting civil society
Since the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression, Ukrainian civil society organizations have played a central role in strengthening the country’s resilience. Working in close proximity to local commu...
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AFD supports Armenia on its path towards more sustainable and resilient development
How can development finance address climate, social and institutional challenges at once?
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Powering South Africa's Just Energy Transition
For decades, coal has powered South Africa’s economy, industries, and cities. Today, the system faces major challenges: aging plants, frequent power cuts, and rising social and economic needs. As Afri...
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What next for investment in African cultural and creative industries?
As support for African CCIs gathers momentum, it is opportune to take stock of where we stand today and to look ahead at the opportunities and challenges before us, ensuring that African CCIs can acce...
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Pacific ocean : flagship project to face climate change
In the Pacific, climate action is urgently needed. We must move faster: building on local ecosystems and knowledge, developing low-carbon solutions, strengthening risk management and sustainably prese...
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Africa Forward Summit: Event Recap
Organized in Nairobi on 11 and 12 May 2026, the Africa Forward Summit brought together political, economic and civil society.
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Renovating public buildings to accelerate the energy transition in Moldova
In the Republic of Moldova, the INSPIREE project supports the country’s energy transition by improving the energy efficiency of public buildings. Implemented as part of the cooperation between AFD and...
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Ukraine: Macroeconomics of War
The economic transition policies that followed the dismantling of th USSR led, due to a lack of gradualism, to a deep deterioration in Ukraine’s institutional balances, which weighed heavily, and cont...
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Integrating Africa - From Threads to Hubs
Africa trades as much as East Asia relative to GDP but without the structural transformation. The problem lies not just in the volume of trade, but in its composition and direction: exports remain con...
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Eastern Africa: inclusive urban growth
Eastern Africa's long-rural population is urbanizing at a remarkable pace, creating major challenges for cities in terms of services, housing, and equity.
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Ex Post Evaluation of the Rural Roads Improvement Project II
Objectives of the evaluation: 1. Rural Road Improvements across parts of ten provinces 2. Strengthened capacities for rural roads asset management. 3. Rural road safety and community awareness prog...
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Digital platforms in the domestic and care sector: A proposed taxonomy for Latin America and the Caribbean
Over the past decade, digital labour platforms for domestic and care services have become increasingly prevalent in Latin America and the Caribbean, albeit with varying degrees of expansion across dif...
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Evaluation of the Cerise+SPTF’s inclusive and responsible finance projects
The first project’s objective was to support the Social Performance Task Force (SPTF) to promote responsible practices of financial inclusion actors, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The second pro...
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Climate and Nature Economic Policy Scenarios (CNEPS) for Ministries of Finance, Public Development Banks, and...
This policy paper examines the growing role that Ministries of Finance, public development banks, and financial authorities must play in implementing the post-COP30 agenda. As climate risks intensify,...
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Evaluation of the project Biodiversity conservation and green growth in the Indo-Burma hotspot
Hotspot 2 aimed at both (1) Conserving biodiversity and supporting poor populations in the management of their natural resources and (2) Influencing the practices of companies in the main sectors inve...
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Evaluation of the ECOPRONAT research programme
From 2019 to 2025, AFD led the ECOPRONAT (PRO-NATure Economy) research programme. The programme’s overarching objective was to foster the transition towards a nature-positive economy by generating and...
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