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Green energy in Vietnam: Expanded Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant will Reduce CO2 Emissions
AFD in Vietnam and Vietnam Electricity (EVN) have signed an agreement for a 70 million euro loan to boost the capacity of the Hoa Binh hydropower plant. This financing is in line with Vietnam's climat...
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A Digital Response to the Health Crisis
Launched in Dakar, the DIRECCT program is supporting the connectivity and digitization of operators in the health, education and small business sectors. It’s a program that is helping people and polic...
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Revamping Côte d'Ivoire's Justice System with AFD Support
Since 2012, the Government of Côte d’Ivoire has been engaged in an overhaul of its judicial system – an ambitious program supported by AFD Group. The goal is to strengthen the rule of law, and the fir...
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Cambodia: AFD Commits to Rehabilitate Irrigation Schemes Damaged by last year's Severe Floods
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed an additional loan agreement of €20 million with the Cambodian Ministry of Economy and Finance for the rehabilitation of 17 irrigation schemes damage...
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AFD commits to strengthening Cambodia's air sector
With the construction of Dara Sakor International Airport nearing completion and growth in air travel expected in the coming years, improving air safety has become a key issue for Cambodia. AFD is sup...
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Renewed commitments to tackle climate change in Vietnam
During his visit to COP 26, Vietnamese Prime Minister H.E. Phạm Minh Chính reiterated Vietnam's commitments to green and sustainable growth. On the occasion of his visit to France and to support the c...
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Following FiCS 2, Development Bank Coalition Ready for the Road Ahead
Hosted in Rome by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), the second edition of the Finance in Common Summit brought together for the second time the whole community of Public Development Banks and stakehold...
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Public Development Banks in Action: A Progress Report One Year On
In Latin America and the Caribbean, where GDP contracted by 7% in part due to the Covid pandemic, Public Development Banks stepped in to channel some $90 billion in credit. PDBs play a major role at t...
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AFD Group Publishes its first TCFD Report on Managing Climate-Related Financial Risks
How to cope with the financial risks associated with climate change? AFD’s new TCFD (Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure) report explains how its activities mitigate the risks and try t...
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FiCS 2021: A New Database of the World’s 527 Public Development Banks and Financing Institutions Unveiled
A new database providing invaluable information on the world’s Public Development Banks will be presented at the second edition of the Finance in Common Summit this week. It’s a major update to the fi...
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The Second Finance in Common Summit: Public Development Banks at a Glance
More than 500 Public Development Banks are expected to convene for the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS), from 19 to 21 October in Rome and online, and hosted by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP). After t...
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Rémy Rioux: "A renaissance among Public Development Banks"
More than 500 Public Development Banks will tackle questions ranging from the pandemic to financing the economic recovery at the second Finance in Common Summit (FICS). Held in Rome from October 19 to...
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Tackling Crucial Development issues in Southeast Asia
On 30 September and 1 October, AFD organized an online conference on the theme of "Southeast Asia’s challenges to sustainable and inclusive development". A dozen speakers shared their experience and v...
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Improving financial inclusion: a priority in the Philippines
While the Philippines has been on a sustained growth trajectory since 2012 (+6.6% per year on average), its levels of poverty and income inequality are higher than most of its Southeast Asian neighbor...
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World Contraception Day: Supporting the Youth in Niger
Access to contraception is a major public health issue for women around the planet. To mark World Contraception Day on 26 September, AFD took a look at this issue through a major awareness-raising ini...
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AFD Backing in Laos for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
Two new grants agreements have been signed in Laos, for a total of 9 million euros. One project supports coffee growers; the other provides support for sustainable management of natural resources. Tog...
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Cambodia: 20 years of AFD Support for Rubber Producers
Since 1999, AFD has been supporting a sustainable and inclusive rubber industry in Cambodia. With the signature of a new project, which will assess the consequences of climate change for the sector, w...
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One Planet Summit: Eight Months on, Progress on Biodiversity
Agence française de développement is taking very concrete action to implement a series of initiatives stemming from the One Planet Summit in January 2021 and focused on biodiversity. A progress report...
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France and AFD, Key Partners of IUCN
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the French government, and Agence Française de Développement enjoy close ties, as exemplified by the successive partnerships the two parties...
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Protecting Natural Areas in Chad to Preserve Biodiversity
Establishing natural protected areas can be an effective way of safeguarding biodiversity. AFD and the European Union are supporting such work in Chad, where NGOs are managing a complex of protected a...
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