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Africa–France academic partnerships (PeA) program: Five new recipients
The Academic Partnerships Africa-France (PeA) program has just announced the winners of its third edition. Five projects jointly supported by 19 African and French higher education and research instit...
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Interview AFD X World Bank: Why development strategy must center on impact
How can development institutions go beyond financing to truly measure their contribution to global transformation? In this podcast, Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive Officer of Agence Française de Développe...
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University of Lomé: Investing in entrepreneurship and innovation
The IMPACT project, a winner of the Academia Partnerships Africa - France program (PeA), is supporting the development of the Lomé Polytechnic School in Togo. Professor Edem K. Koledzi, director of th...
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The Seville conference: reshaping global financial architecture – Interview with Rémy Rioux
During the fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive of AFD Group, reflects on the crucial stakes of this global meeting. As the current financia...
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The IDBio Project: transforming biosourced wastes for more sustainable industries
The IDBio project, supported by the Academia Partnerships Africa-France Program (PeA), responds to a growing challenge in Africa: the development of renewable resources and sustainable waste managemen...
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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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Armed conflicts in Africa: a continent “trapped in stereotypes”?
What impact do armed conflicts have on the development of African countries, and what lessons can be drawn from the many external interventions aimed at dealing with them? In this article, we intervie...
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Africa-France academic partnerships focus on gender equality and employability
How can we promote student employability, inclusion and gender equality on the African continent? Dr. Moussa Diaby, Director General of the Institut national polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-...
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One Water Summit: laying the groundwork for action ahead of the UN Water Conference in 2026
On December 3, France, Kazakhstan and the World Bank Group co-organized the One Water Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on the margins of the COP16 of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Having...
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Third call for proposals for Academia Partnerships Africa-France projects: “Be creative, be original!”
How can we foster the construction of academia partnerships between Africa and France geared to contributing to countries’ sustainable development? Now that the third edition of the Academia Partnersh...
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AFD Group Takes a Look Back on Ten Years of Sustainable Bond Issuances
To mark the 10th anniversary of its first sustainable bond issuance, AFD Group organized a special conference on November 18, 2024, to present its new bond framework aligned with the Sustainable Devel...
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World Urban Forum: Housing is a Key Component to the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
Agence Française de Développement will be at the 12th edition of the World Urban Forum in Cairo, Egypt, from 4 to 8 November. This forum is organized by UN-Habitat, the United Nations agency mandated...
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Climate Change: Promoting and Supporting Citizen Engagement
The climate emergency is prompting calls across the globe demanding more active citizen participation. We are seeing a proliferation of initiatives and schemes geared towards this, including in operat...
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Senegal : students’ professional integration in retail and distribution
What difficulties need to be overcome and what possible solutions to promote the professional integration of students on the African continent? Some answers from Professors Souad Djelassi and Mbaye Fa...
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Beyond the Olympics: Vanquishing Inequality through Sports
Arnaud Assoumani, a Paralympian who will be competing in the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, is at the starting blocks. The long jump and triple jump athlete from the French overseas territor...
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Protecting Nature and Biodiversity: "Living Things Deserve Rights"
Nature has long been regarded more as an object for use and exploitation than as a living entity worthy of protection. Advocates say we can best protect biodiversity by granting nature rights. Unlike...
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Foreign Direct Investment: Scarce for some, Abundant for others
Foreign direct investment (FDI) can indicate the relative attractiveness of emerging and developing countries' economies and their economic trajectories. Given the shocks that have struck economies ar...
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Boosting Blue Finance to Protect the Oceans
Earlier this summer, Costa Rica hosted the Immersed in Change conference, which is part of the collective effort to call for the protection of oceans. AFD’s deputy head of Sustainable Development Solu...
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The Dangers Facing the world’s Small Island States – and how we can Help
With Small Island States facing rising sea levels and geographical isolation, they are faced with serious environmental, social and economic problems. How do the world’s wealthy countries provide supp...
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“The EU will continue to assert its Geopolitical Influence after the Elections”
EU citizens will be voting for their European Parliament representatives in the elections from June 6 to June 9. What impact will these elections have on Europe’s development policies? What role does...
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