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Why does AFD also finance India, Brazil and Türkiye?

China, India, Brazil, Türkiye… Why does the AFD Group also operate in these major emerging economies, often perceived as established powers rather than “natural” priorities for development aid? Becaus...

Assisting telecom operators with financing AAE1 and SMW5 submarine cables

AFD is supporting Djibouti Télécom’s participation in international consortiums for submarine telecom cables. Through its financing, AFD is contributing to the development and consolidation of the nat...

Technical cooperation between the Robben Island Museum and Paris Musées

This project aims to modernise the museography and strengthen the tourist appeal of the Robben Island Museum, an emblematic site of South African memory, thanks to the expertise of Paris Musées in pro...

Education and Training

Support to the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)

AFD subscribed to a 200 million euros green bond facility issued by the Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA). The facility will fund 100% of climate projects implemented in South Africa, further ad...

Support the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)

Through a 50 million euros line of credit and a 700 000 euros technical assistance pro-gramme, AFD supports the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) in the development of high-impact social infr...

Support to Transnet’s freight decarbonization

Transnet SOC Limited (“Transnet”) and France, through Agence Française de Développement (AFD), signed a EUR 300M (approximately ZAR5,8bn) loan agreement to enhance Transnet’s contribution to a more re...

Measuring environmental sustainability in Colombia and South Africa: application of the ESGAP framework

Within the framework of the ECOPRONAT research programme, AFD supports the development of methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability at the level of a territory - and more particularly i...

Research on just transition and adaptation pathways

This AFD research program analyzes and models the various effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. It also examines how these dynamics interact to reshape societies, ecosystems, and economies.

How – and how far – can we still adapt? Knowledge and societies responding to the challenges of adaptation

Join us for the 17th AFD International Research Conference on Development.

Funds and facilities: a source of complementary financing

Whether for project preparation or to finance specific themes (such as conflict prevention or climate adaptation), Agence Française de Développement (AFD) manages or leverages funds and facilities tha...

Everything you wanted to know about COP26, in an SMS exchange

What is COP26? What is at stake? And what will be the role there for AFD? You’ll find the answers in this fictional but informative SMS exchange with Mathilde Bord-Laurans, AFD's Head of the Climate C...