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How are African countries using data to combat Covid-19?
The #Data4COVID19 Africa Challenge—a collaboration between l'Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Expertise France, and The GovLab - seeks to accelerate responsible data innovation to tackle Covid...
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A “Silent Spring” for the Financial System? Exploring Biodiversity-Related Financial Risks
What are the links between biodiversity loss and financial instability? How can they be quantified? What are the implications for public policy in developed, developing and emerging countries?
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Migration and Representation: How to Facilitate Change?
As part of International Migrants Day 2021, the Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration (National Museum of Immigration History) with its partners, is organizing a program from December 13 to 18...
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6th EU-AU Summit’s Side Event “(Un)Equal Africa: How to ensure equitable trajectories to prosperity?”
How do inequalities arise and persist in Africa? How can they be reduced in the context of Covid-19 and climate change?
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Digital labour platforms: What challenges and opportunities for Argentina?
What are the effects of app-based platforms for the personal service sector on workers’ conditions? What challenges and opportunities are arising in Argentina? How does it compare with experiences acr...
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CERISE+SPTF & OECD Meeting 2022 | Finance United: Part 2 of our Two-Part "Towards Impact Series"
Cerise + SPTF and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) are pleased to invite you to attend the 2022 Cerise + SPTF Annual Meeting - Celebrating 10 years of the Universal Standards for Social and...
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AFD Webinar: The Impact of Commodity Price Shocks
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February produced a surge in global commodity prices, from hydrocarbons to metals and agricultural products. Prices were already on the rise since mid-2020, but...
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Digital Energy Challenge Call for Projects - Information webinars
Are you looking to boost your digital innovation project in the energy sector in Africa? Are you involved in energy transition projects in this region? The Digital Energy Challenge is for you. The 202...
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Gender Equality and Climate Change Finance: The Role of Public Development Banks
On 16 March, please join Government of France, Government of Morocco, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), African Development Bank (AfDB), European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),...
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Aligning Public and Private Finance and Investment With the SDGs: Towards Common Definitions and Tools
OECD, FiCS (Finance in Common) and AFD are co-organizing a 2-days seminar to address their respective roles in exploring new solutions and identifying opportunities and risks to better align finance a...
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Strong environmental sustainability and international commitments: setting the right targets to preserve ecosy...
How can we define relevant and effective targets to monitor and implement national commitments towards environmental sustainability?
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Webinar – Digital Commons in Sub-Saharan Africa
Digital commons allow citizens to contribute directly to the creation and management of the digital resources they need. Already today, digital commons are present in the daily lives of thousands of A...
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COP26: The AFD Program
COP26, the 26th annual climate summit, is being held in Glasgow, where world leaders, environmentalists, public development banks and members of the business community engage in talks on climate issue...
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Linking social protection and the environment: perspectives in South East Asia
What are the connections between environmental changes and social protection? How to articulate social protection and environmental protection in public policies? What are the perspectives on the matt...
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Energy Transition Metals’ extraction and Sustainable development goals (SDG)
What are the development issues in Southern countries associated with the extraction of metals needed for renewable energy technologies?
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Open publishing, a development issue? An AFD Editions Seminar
AFD Editions offers you a bilingual French-English seminar to create a space for meeting and debate around editorial issues related to the dissemination of knowledge on development. It will notably br...
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AFD Day of exchanges- « Nature in the City »
This conference proposes to put scientific research into perspective, and its operational translation, around the role and place of biodiversity in cities, with the presence of researchers and project...
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Southeast Asia's Challenge to Sustainable and Inclusive Development
Southeast Asia is currently facing major challenges regarding climate change, biodiversity loss, and increasing inequalities reinforced by the Covid-19 pandemic. Donors, regional and international org...
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Structural Change and Green Growth in Colombia
What structural changes are needed to achieve sustainable economic growth? What is the state of play in Colombia? This webinar will explore the structural change undergone by the Colombian economy bet...
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Human Rights and Development
Conceived as the first step of a series of meetings of actors committed to the promotion of the HRBA, the conference will also be an opportunity to encourage networking among participants and to agree...
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