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Evaluation of gender mainstreaming in AFD projects (2014-2018)
The Crosscutting Intervention Framework on Gender and the Reduction of Gender Inequalities 2014-2017 (Gender CIF) was adopted by the AFD Board of Directors in March 2014. With this strategic document,...
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AFD Group and Europe in the Middle East
For the past twenty years, AFD Group in the Middle East has positioned itself as a capable platform for mobilizing expertise and financing, and has been advocating for partnership reflexes with the Eu...
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AFD in Eastern Africa: Partnering for the rural territories
Does your country or institution wish to promote productive #rural areas that are respectful of nature ? You need a partner who shares the same objectives for those rural areas: ✔Supporting and a...
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AFD Group and Europe in North Africa
For more than ten years, in North Africa, the AFD Group has developed a very close partnership with the European Commission. This partnership begins with a constant dialogue and continues with an oper...
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They Are Building the Africa of Today and Preparing the Africa of Tomorrow
Africa is at the heart of AFD Group's work. On such a youthful continent – where 60% of Africans are under the age of 24 years old – we must continue to find ways to generate positive, enduring change...
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National Public Development Banks (PDBs): Key Actors Financing Water and Sanitation
Today, more than 2 billion people still do not have access to safe drinking water, and more than 3.6 billion people do not have access to sanitation. In many countries, climate change is increasing th...
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Orients - 2021-2026 Regional Strategy
The “Orients” region stretches from the Balkans to Indonesia and harbours important challenges for international peace, and for the collective global transition towards low-carbon, economic and social...
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Precarisation or Protection? The Impact of Digital Platform Labour on Argentinean Domestic Workers in Times of...
The article analyses how the platform economy affects the domestic service sector, focusing particularly on the issue of workers’ formalisation. It looks at Zolvers, the only digital platform for dome...
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Gender inequalities in the platform economy: The cases of delivery and private passenger transport services in...
This article inspects how the expansion of the platform economy affects gender inequalities, in some new forms as well in reinforcing pre-existing ones. It focuses on two platform occupations in the B...
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Labour market trajectories and conciliation efforts among female Uber drivers
This article examines female Uber drivers’ labour trajectories, paying attention to the way in which gender-based occupational segregation is reproduced and/or challenged in the context of the platfor...
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Impacts of CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries
This article analyses the impact of the introduction of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on the European Union (EU) trade partners, focusing especially on its potential socio-economic and...
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Water and Sanitation: 2021 Activity Report
Water is central to the balance of ecosystems and societies and an essential factor for biodiversity, food security, health, gender equality – and even peace. Water resources are under pressure fro...
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Building Data Infrastructure in Development Contexts: Lessons from the #Data4COVID19 Africa Challenge
COVID-19 and other societal threats hamper the ability of development practitioners and stakeholders to address public needs. Bolstering society’s ability to responsibly access, re-use and generate in...
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Support for Civil Society Organizations - 2020 Activity Report
The year 2020 was marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, which caused a global health, economic and social crisis. This crisis mobilized all public, private and nonprofit actors. They strengthened their dia...
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TCFD (Task-Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure) Report
The Task-Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) aims to improve corporate climate-related financial transparency. It encourages companies to disclose information on how climate-related o...
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AFD and the Pacific Ocean
The diversity among the Pacific Ocean region’s territories aside, common issues tend to suggest that an ocean-wide regional development approach would help foster discussion among stakeholders, identi...
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Developing Countries’ Macroeconomic Exposure to the Low-carbon Transition
This paper aims at providing estimates of countries’ macroeconomic exposures to the low-carbon transition. We develop a method to evaluate countries’ external, fiscal and socio-economic exposure, and,...
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AFD and Namibia
Present in Namibia since 1998, AFD offers diverse financing solutions and technical assistance to support the Namibian government with its development policy. Along with its partners (government, priv...
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Urban cooling solutions
As part of its commitment to support the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, AFD Group helps cities in developing countries and in French overseas territories improve their resilience to cl...
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Climate Challenges: Making the Transition in Africa a Success
Africa has many advantages that will enable it to keep a low carbon footprint while achieving economic take-off. A just transition pathway that reconciles socioeconomic and climate imperatives is poss...
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