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BALADK Street art festival 2019 : Art empowering women

In the streets of Amman, there are some surprises in the works for the capital’s residents as the city prepares to host the Baladk Festival. Since 2013, this street art festival, organised by the Al B...

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AFD and the Energy Transition in Africa

To promote the energy transition in Africa, AFD supports the development of efficient, low-carbon energy services that are accessible to everyone. It relies on three major assets: diversified financin...

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Pascal Grangerau : AFD celebrates 10 years in Nigeria

Pascal Grangereau is the country director of the French Development Agency (AFD) in Nigeria. In this video, Pascal Grangereau presents the highlights of 10 years of AFD activities in Nigeria. AFD has...

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Reaching Brazil's Nationally Determined Contributions: An Assessment of the Key Transitions in Final Demand an...

Brazil has achieved significant advances in climate mitigation by reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the last decade. Additionally, Brazil commits to furthering its actions through the Nat...

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Part 2: Implementing Alignment with the Paris Agreement: Recommendations for the Members of the International ...

Alignment with the Paris Agreement has become the new frontier of climate finance. Financial institutions, whether seeking sustainable development impacts or with commercial goals, are increasingly co...

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Aligning with the Paris Agreement - A CPI and I4CE Executive Summary

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Kenya: healthcare within reach of a cellphone

In Kenya, where 93% of the population did not have access to health coverage until recently, patients can now subscribe to health insurance and pay for their care at a large network of hospitals using...

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The Challenges of Achieving Universal Electrification

This study takes stock of national off-grid electrification strategies, focusing mainly on two technical options: mini-grids and individual solar systems. It provides recommendations regarding the amb...

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Rethinking Urban Food Supply in the Global South

Challenging misconceptions in order to improve public policy. Many misconceptions exist surrounding urban food supply in the Global South. They result in part from a fragmented vision of the...

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Minka Lake Chad Initiative

The violence linked to the Boko Haram crisis has had an impact far beyond the birthplace of the movement in northeast Nigeria, its combat zones and the areas to which its fighters have withdrawn. The...

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Minka Sahel Initiative

The security, humanitarian, and sociopolitical situation in the Sahel has continued to deteriorate since the 2012 crisis in Mali, with a significant increase in conflict hotspots. More than one millio...

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Inequality trends in South Africa: A multidimensional diagnostic of inequality

This report on inequality trends in South Africa is a joint publication produced by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in partnership with the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SAL...

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AFD and State-Owned Enterprises

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play a role in the implementation of development policies. For this reason, they are key players in a country’s economic and social environment, and improving their perf...

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Part 1: I4CE - A Framework for Alignment with the Paris Agreement: Why, What and How for Financial Institution...

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Access to electricity in Sahel doubled by 2022 - Synthesis of the conference

The “Energy Access in the G5 Sahel Countries” Conference is the first edition of an annual meeting organized by the Energy Group of the Sahel Alliance, which aimed at strengthening the coordination of...

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Southeast Asia - Activity Report

AFD’s field of intervention in Southeast Asia covers seven ASEAN member countries: we’ve had a long-standing presence in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam going back to 1993. We’ve subsequently extended our...

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AFD and the blue economy in Indonesia

The largest archipelago in the world with nearly 17,000 islands and the 6th Exclusive Economic Zone of the world (sea surface of 6 million km²), Indonesia is a country that conceives its development a...

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Financing TVET: a comparative analysis in six Asian countries

Over the last years, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has been rising in the political agenda of both the international community and many governments around the world. In the ne...

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