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Infographic – Our Studies and Research Activity in 2022
Climate change, biodiversity protection, preservation of social cohesion, global crises… The studies and research conducted by AFD contribute to the analysis of a number of challenges facing the plane...
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Studies and Research - 2022 Activity Report
We have now entered the 'age of consequences': long, slow-moving crises such as climate change, whose effects are accelerating, and the major health, economic, and geopolitical shocks that may ensue a...
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Education, Training, Employment - 2022 Activity Report
The Covid-19 crisis has had a major effect on the education sector and jeopardizes the advances made in school enrollment, especially of girls, as well as skills development for young people entering...
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India: CITIIS Transforms Cities
The CITIIS project in India is transforming not only urban landscapes, but the way that urbanism is envisaged, developed and executed in a selection of the country's smart cities. Through this project...
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Kenya: a maternity ward for Lumumba hospital
Once a modest health center, the Lumumba establishment has become a reference hospital in Kisumu, au Kenya. It received support from AFD for its expansion and equipment, which allowed it to open a mat...
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Can Colombia cope with a Global Low Carbon transition?
This paper aims to understand the long-term consequences for the Colombian economy of a global low-carbon transition. The paper proposes an empirical Stock-Flow Consistent model for Colombia, encompas...
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Climate Change, Loss of Agricultural Output and the Macro-Economy: The Case of Tunisia
Using an empirical, multi-sectoral, open economy, Stock-Flow Consistent model, this paper assesses the long-term consequences of a sustained climate-induced decline in agricultural production for the...
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Vulnerability of Ghana’s Coast to Relative Sea-level Rise: A Scoping Review
Coastal areas are regions of essential value that are home to a myriad of services. However, population growth and climate change along with their cascading impacts have had profound impacts on their...
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A scoping review of the vulnerability of Nigeria's coastland to sea-level rise and the contribution of land su...
Nigeria’s low-lying coastal region, with its various economic activities, is vulnerable to global sea-level rise triggered by climate change. In some areas, this threat can be amplified by land subsid...
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How does AFD work with CSOs?
Over the past fifteen years, AFD has considerably broadened its methods of collaboration with CSOs, both in terms of financing projects and activities and in terms of producing knowledge or mobilizing...
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“Multiple, polarized and vulnerable”: A socio-economic exploration of Ghana’s middle class
By using mixed quantitative-qualitative methods combining micro-data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey 2016-2017 (GLSS7) and original qualitative data collected from semi-structured interviews in...
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Modelling economy for a sustainable future with Devrim Yilmaz
Ecological transitions are a real revolution. They can have major effects - both positive and negative – on employment, imports and exports, financial stability, or public finances. They induce a glob...
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Climate: all migrants tomorrow?
A growing proportion of human societies are now threatened by climate change. In 2022 alone, 32 million people, for example, had to leave their homes, most often as part of internal and temporary migr...
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Gender Equality – 2022 Activity Report
Since 2020, AFD has asserted its position as a committed actor in the international ecosystem on gender. Having forged strategic partnerships with the United Nations and multilateral and bilateral ban...
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Infographic – Our Activity to Support Civil Society Organizations in 2022
In 2022, civil society organizations once again mobilized to address the needs of people in many fields of action. With 465 million euros and nearly 300 CSOs assisted in 2022, AFD Group reinforced...
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Preliminary comparative analysis of biodiversity measurement approaches for public development banks
This report is extracted from a study to prepare a comparative analysis of six biodiversity metrics submitted to Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and De...
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A partnership for the energy transition in Vietnam
AFD and Vietnam Electricity (EVN) have been partners for over 20 years. To illustrate the strength of this collaboration, let us take you on a tour of two emblematic projects supported by AFD: Se San...
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Drinking water for everyone, everywhere at Kinshasa
As part of the Debt Reduction and Development Contract (C2D) signed between France and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), AFD granted in May 2014 a grant of €18 million to finance the project for...
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Thinking macroeconomic vulnerabilities in the context of low-carbon transition
The transition to a low-carbon and climate resilient economy is a process of important restructuring of the productive network where sunset industries will decline and sometimes disappear and where su...
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Environmental and Social Complaints Mechanism - 2021 Activity Report
In 2021, Agence Française de Développement continued its commitment to the beneficiaries of its projects by handling the complaints received through its Environmental and Social Complaints Mechanism,...
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