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Infographic - Our activity in favor of Energy Transition in 2024
In 2024, AFD Group allocated €2.5 billion in financing to the energy sector, to accelerate renewable energy production, upgrade grids and improve energy efficiency, including through a buildings progr...
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AFD Group offer: Energy
Triple renewable energies, double energy efficiency, and reduce fossil fuel demand by 25% by 2030: this is what needs to happen if we are to keep global warming at +1.5 °C. AFD Group is actively invo...
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JEFIC – Joint European Financiers for International Cooperation
JEFIC – Joint European Financiers for International Cooperation – is a network of European national bilateral development banks and financial institutions which mainly work with public sector partners...
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AFD and India: focus on urban transport
A partner of India since 2008, AFD works in agreement with Indian authorities to promote green and inclusive growth. It operates through soft loans to the state and public enterprises, as well as tech...
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Rwanda
At the heart of the Great Lakes region, Rwanda experienced sustained growth for more than two decades and substantially improved the living conditions of its population. The normalization of diplomati...
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Coastal land subsidence in West Africa: an overlooked threat? The case of Lagos and the Volta Delta
Lagos and the Ghana’s Volta Delta face significant downward vertical land motion, a phenomenon called land subsidence, compounding sea-level rise. Several stressors drive subsidence rates of several m...
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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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Can social inclusion benefit ecosystems?
With 17,500 islands and 54,000 km of coastline, Indonesia is heavily dependent on its marine ecosystems. However, these areas are currently under strain due to significant demographic, economic, and e...
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Civil society organizations
AFD and civil society organizations (CSOs) work together to help the latter contribute better to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The partnership between AFD and CSOs has develop...
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The OSC Initiatives mechanism
The AFD's OSC Initiatives program is a structuring and strategic lever for financing international solidarity-driven projects carried out by OSCs governed by French law or local law in the countries i...
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What do civil society actors think about the human rightsbased approach ?
On the eve of the international conference Human rights and sustainable development, which took place at AFD on 8 December 2023, many representatives of civil society organizations from all continents...
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Human rights and sustainable development
Following the first conference «Human rights and sustainable development» in 2021, AFD brought together a wide range of development stakeholders on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Universa...
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Conference : "Human Rights and Development"
On 10 December 2021, AFD Group organized an international conference on "Human Rights and Development" that brought together 500 actors from the development community in the North and in the South....
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The Rights of Nature
Since 2022, the right to a healthy environment has been recognised as a human right by the United Nations General Assembly. However, it is not embodied in a binding international treaty, unlike conven...
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Human Rights and Development: The Rights of Youth
AFD is developing a series of factsheets entitled "Human Rights and Development". In addition to providing information and promoting human rights, the sheets are tools to help development actors integ...
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Human Rights and Development: The Rights of the Child
AFD is developing a series of factsheets entitled "Human Rights and Development". In addition to providing information and promoting human rights, the sheets are tools to help development actors integ...
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The nexus between “Human rights” and the “rights of nature” Debates, tensions and complementarities
In recent decades, initiatives to recognize rights for nature have multiplied, giving rise to a global movement. There are numerous opportunities for synergies between this movement and human rights,...
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Human Rights as a Prism for Analysing the Ecological Transition
The fight against the ecological crisis and the protection of human rights are interdependent challenges that require collective efforts from governments, international organizations, civil society, b...
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The human rights-based approach: A lever for transformation
92% of the SDG targets are rooted in the international corpus of human rights. In this context, the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs' human rights strategy calls for "support for human ri...
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Grants: a stand-alone tool or as a complement to loans
AFD provides grants to fund initiatives in the health and education sectors, as well as for rural and urban development and infrastructure projects.
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