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Mexico
Mexico occupies a unique geographic position on the continent, located in North America. As the second-largest Latin American economy after Brazil, the country is committed to multilateralism and is p...
Regions and countries
The Fund for Innovation in Development: innovating against poverty and inequality
The Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) finances solutions with high potential impact on tackling poverty and inequalities in low- and middle-income countries. The Fund is backed up with a rigoro...
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Is Africa really against democracy? L’Éco du monde #9
Angola, Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya… While social movements advocating social, economic, and political demands emerged in several African countries in 2025, Thomas Melonio hosts Ousmane Ndiaye, journalist...
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International solidarity: What impact does it really have? L’Éco du monde #7
As international solidarity policies are being questioned, what can be said about their outcomes and impacts over the past decades? How essential are innovation, experimentation, and evaluation in imp...
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Madagascar: young people mobilized to improve living conditions in Antananarivo
As part of the Lalankely III project, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union are supporting the Urban Municipality of Antananarivo (CUA) in Madagascar to sustainably improve li...
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Concrete progress for public development banks at the UN conference in Seville
Held in Seville, Spain, from June 30 to July 3, the fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) marked a major step forward in international finance, with public development ba...
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CICLIA: Cities and Climate in Africa
Initiated in 2016 by AFD and supported by the European Union and SECO, CICLIA supports African cities in the preparation of low-carbon and resilient urban projects. More specifically, CICLIA funds stu...
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ETHIOPIA: Construction and sustainability preparations for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line 2 in Addis Ababa
The goal of this project is to develop the first high-capacity Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor, which will form one of the backbone of the future mass-transit network of Ethiopia’s capital city. The...
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Sub-Saharan Africa faces persistent demographic challenges
The vast majority of African countries are experiencing a population boom, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. While this growth could bring economic benefits, it also poses significant challenges, ac...
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Public debt looms again in sub-Saharan Africa
Public debt levels have increased significantly in sub-Saharan Africa since the late 2000s, raising concerns about over-indebtedness. The issue is examined by four experts in "L’économie africaine 202...
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Civil society organizations (CSOs)
AFD and civil society organizations (CSOs) work together to strengthen civil society’s contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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PEEB: a tool for transforming the building sector
Launched in 2016 at COP22 in Marrakech, the Partnership for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB) supports the transformation of the building sector in line with the Paris Agreement.
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Overseas France
For over 80 years, AFD has been supporting the sustainable development of local authorities and businesses in France's Overseas Territories. In 2024, the Group invested over €1 billion, 75% of which w...
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A commitment to 100% SDG alignment
AFD Group aims to become the first public development bank that is 100% SDG-aligned. To meet this commitment, AFD Group is focusing on a development model with a high level of sustainability that main...
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The Sustainable Development Analysis & Opinion Mechanism
The sustainable development analysis and opinion mechanism is the tool used by AFD Group to ensure that every project it finances is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through an a...
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Building Data Infrastructure in Development Contexts: Lessons from the #Data4COVID19 Africa Challenge
COVID-19 and other societal threats hamper the ability of development practitioners and stakeholders to address public needs. Bolstering society’s ability to responsibly access, re-use and generate in...
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Building bridges through AI
Fostering India–Africa–France Dialogue to Advance AI for the Common Good
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Chad
A landlocked Sahelian country, Chad faces both structural and short-term challenges. Its economy, which relies heavily on oil, gold, and agriculture, remains vulnerable to climate shocks. Flooding reg...
Regions and countries
Research Facility on Inequalities: First Phase (2017-2020)
Endowed with 4 million euros delegated by the European Commission's Directorate-General for International Partnerships (INTPA), the first phase of the Research Facility on Inequalities was set up for...
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Inequalities diagnostics: a tool for analyzing inequalities
Inequality has emerged as the social challenge of the decade. Empirically, a series of influential studies of the available international evidence suggest that global inequality has been falling in th...
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