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LEAD Morocco: sport and education for all children
In Morocco, where more than 180,000 children live in extreme poverty, there is ongoing inequality in access to education. We met Soufiane Najah El Idrissi and Fatima Azzahra Benfares, the founders of...
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Driving the transition to sustainable agriculture in Ghassate, Morocco
At the 2025 edition of the Paris International Agricultural Show, Morocco will take center stage. In the south-east of the country, where agriculture is often critical to survival, the sector is facin...
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Using AI to improve language learning in Senegal
While French is the official language in the Senegalese school system, only a minority of teachers and pupils speak it as their first language. With support from AFD, the NGO Libraries Without Borders...
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Escaping child labor in Tanzania
Child labor remains a global scourge, affecting 160 million children worldwide. Sub-Saharan Africa is the most affected region, where one in four children – approximately 86.6 million – are forced to...
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Brazil: more equitable public policies in response to climate change
Brazil’s government and institutions are working together to develop local policies aimed at the communities most vulnerable to climate change. Gender equality and anti-discrimination criteria are now...
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A survey on the perception of development policy in four African countries
How is France's development policy perceived in Africa? How is its concrete impact assessed, and how can we better meet people’s expectations? To get key insights, Agence Française de Développement (A...
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Reshaping European and African partnerships to advance the agroecological transition
As part of the 2025 Paris International Agricultural Show, and a month prior to the Nutrition for Growth summit, AFD and the Académie d'agriculture de France organized a roundtable and strategic brain...
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5 questions on AFD Group’s operations
Where does the money used by AFD Group actually come from? Does AFD grant financing to emerging countries? Does this financing really reach the final beneficiaries? We provide answers to five key ques...
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How does AFD measure the impact of the projects it supports?
Ensuring the quality of projects is both a duty and an obligation for a public development bank. Each year, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) evaluates – and commissions evaluations of – the imp...
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Lebanon: working for more reliable water supply
In Lebanon, more than 1.5 million people enjoy improved access to drinking water thanks to Project SEPAL (“Services d’eau potable améliorés au Liban,” or “Improved potable water services in Lebanon”)....
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MadAtlas: a mutually enriching Madagascar-France double degree
Winner of the first edition of the Academia Partnership Africa-France Program, the MadAtlas project gives students from the University of Fianarantsoa in Madagascar and Gustave Eiffel University in Fr...
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One Health: a comprehensive approach to health, for better food systems
On March 27 and 28, France will host the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) summit, whose goal is to make nutrition a permanent item on the political agenda. One of the main themes of this summit is the One H...
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Response to the Covid-19 crisis: France supports the resilience of the most vulnerable households and youth in...
On December 4, Mrs Anna Getaneh, Founder and President Ethiopian Children Fund (ECF) and Mrs. Valérie Tehio, Ethiopia country Director of the French Development Agency (AFD), signed a financing agreem...
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A 20 Million Euros grant to support the expansion and rehabilitation of municipal wastewater collection and tr...
The French Development Agency (AFD) and the Jordanian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC) signed two grant agreements in Amman for a total amount of 20.3 million euros.
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Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation and AFD launch Film on Egypt-France Partnership
Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation (MoiC), in collaboration with the French Development Agency, released a 60 seconds short visual film celebrating Fourteen years of AFD-Egypt partnership...
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AFD signs a 500k€ grant agreement with the National Planning Commission to support the Ministry of Public Ente...
National Planning Commission (NPC) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed today an agreement for the implementation of a project benefiting to the Namibian Ministry of Public Enterprises (...
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The UN economic commission for Africa (UNECA) and AFD join forces to support African governments implement the...
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the French Agency for Development (AFD) signed today a partnership agreement aiming at supporting African governments with the implementation of the Debt S...
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European Union and French Development Agency support the construction of the Tanzania – Zambia Interconnector ...
The Country Director of the French Development Agency (AFD), Mrs. Stephanie Mouen, has today signed a grant agreement of EUR 26 million (approximately TZS 73/- billion) with the Ministry of Finance an...
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A 5-million euro grant to the ICRC to help the Rafik Hariri University Hospital cope with COVID-19 in a post-...
Beirut, 17 December 2020: The French Development Agency (AFD) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) signed today a grant agreement of 5 million euros, to serve as additional funding...
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AFD provides EUR 100 million callable funding facility to GuarantCo to further develop its climate change port...
Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the development arm of the French Government, is providing GuarantCo, a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, with a EUR 100 million callabl...
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