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You represent a French local authority
AFD devotes an increasing amount of its activity to directly financing foreign local authorities. To implement this strategy, it relies on the strongly political expertise of French local authorities.
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Training: learning together to transform the world
AFD Group Campus is our training center, created to build a shared foundation of knowledge, to share experiences, and to learn the necessary skills to design and implement high-impact projects that su...
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan stands at the crossroads of Central Asia and has been the scene of conflicts since 1979. The country is struggling to find a way out of insecurity and political instability. It is also hig...
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Contact AFD
AFD headquarters and its annexes are located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris.
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Development banks and agencies
These institutions are backed up by States, enabling them to plan in the long term. They chart out new paths and generate dynamics. When it comes to facilitating transitions and reorienting the econom...
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IDFC
The International Development Finance Club (IDFC) is a network of 27 national, regional and bilateral development banks. AFD was one of its founding members in 2011 and has been chairing the organizat...
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The United Nations
The UN specialized institutions, funds, and programs are major development aid actors. They have several advantages: universality in terms of their members, relative neutrality, and significant presen...
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Restoring ecosystems with the residents of Assam
AFD supports a sustainable and participatory management of forest ecosystems in Assam, while developing the economic resources of the populations.
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Helping Kochi sustainably restructure its urban mobility
AFD supports the city of Kochi in the construction of a light metro and the restructuration of its urban mobility. An innovation-driven project that greatly contributes to transforming Kochi into a Sm...
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Reducing the fossil fuel consumption of Turkey’s growth
Turkey’s economic growth consumes 50% more energy than that of the EU. The development bank TSKB has set out to reduce this energy consumption by promoting initiatives for sustainable tourism and in t...
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Preserving Turkish forests
The Turkish-French cooperation on sustainable forest management is a key sector for AFD in Turkey. AFD has been supporting the Turkish forest policy through four policy-based loans to the Government o...
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ARE Scale-up: Deploying Renewable Energy in Africa
Renewable energy is essential to meet Africa's growing energy demand and to ensure access to electricity for all. Meeting these challenges requires supporting public institutions, and mobilizing priva...
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Promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency
AFD is supporting Brazil’s public policies for renewable energy development in order to contribute to curbing greenhouse gas emissions, while supporting innovation and promoting energy efficiency.
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Better living conditions for Cape Town residents
AFDis supporting the Municipality of Cape Town, the second largest city in South Africa, to ensure previously disadvantaged populations have access to new infrastructure and basic services such as wat...
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Decent housing in Johannesburg's City Centre
AFD is supporting a private sector property developer to build affordable rental housing in Johannesburg. The aim: to promote better integration of people in socio-economic fabric of Johannesburg’s ci...
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A renewable energy to meet growing electricity demand
Zambia is developing its power grid in order to meet the growing energy needs of its economy and population and reduce its energy dependence.
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The Metis Fund
Launched in 2021, the Metis Arts and Development Fund is hosted by AFD. The fund targets the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and finances initiatives that bring together an art...
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Building up the Cambodia Film Commission
This project aims to enhance Cambodia’s attractiveness as a host for foreign cinematographic and audio-visual productions, which in turn will support the country’s economic development.
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Access to drinking water and sanitation in Cambodian provincial cities
The Provincial Water Supply and Sanitation Project (PWSSP) aims to improve the population’s living conditions in Battambang, Kampong Cham, Sihanoukville and Siem Reap, by providing drinking water and...
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Train Cambodians for management jobs in the textile sector
The textile sector is essential to Cambodia’s economy and employment. The middle management and directorial positions are held by Asian expatriates because of the lack of sufficiently qualified local...
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