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How AFD Ensures that its Financing Reaches the Final Beneficiaries
The projects financed by Agence Française de Développement are subject to ongoing attention. This involves a dialogue with its partners on almost a daily basis, supervision missions in the field, and...
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Workshop: Overcoming institutional and organisational barriers to sanitation
Sanitation remains a great challenge of our time, especially in fast-growing cities of Africa and Asia. AFD invites you to the scientific workshop organized by the ParisTech Chair “SUEZ-General manage...
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Financing Development: A Chinese Path?
Through the financing of major infrastructure projects, China has become a key player in development finance. How is Chinese aid distributed and what are its modalities? Which are the Chinese institut...
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Forecast-based early Action: A missing link between humanitarian response and development?
Leaning on improvements in forecasting, ‘Forecast-based early action’ is seen as an innovative approach to managing the residual risks that cannot be addressed through longer-term investment in resili...
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Finance in Common: The First Global Summit of All Public Development Banks
Taking place 9-12 November 2020 during the Paris Peace Forum, the Finance in Common Summit, will gather for the first time the world's 450 Public Development Banks (PDBs) and their partners, demonstra...
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Water drives resilience: A Call to Action for Public Development Banks
Agence Française de Développement (AFD), together with its partners, is pleased to invite you to the webinar “Water drives resilient countries: a call to action for public development banks to build a...
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Emerging Technologies and Development Banks: A New Intelligence Paradigm
In parallel with the Finance in Common Summit, AFD and the Governance Lab will host a webinar discussing four types of "intelligence," from artificial intelligence, which uses data to solve problems a...
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Finance in Common Summit Side Event – The Data4Nature initiative
Data4Nature is an initiative that encourages development actors to share biodiversity data from projects via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). During this webinar, representatives f...
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Climate change and financial stability
After a presentation of The Green Swan, the webinar will explore the challenges posed by climate risk on financial stability and supervision, share concrete examples of policies and initiatives put in...
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Multidimensional Inequality in Vietnam
The webinar “Multidimensional Inequality in Vietnam” is part of the AFD’s Research Department webinar series launched to offer a platform for discussion on research and public policy issues. The Viet...
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How to finance life on Earth: a high-level discussion with experts in biodiversity finance
On January 13 at 2:00 pm CET, John Tobin-de la Puente (Professor of Practice, Cornell University) and Andrew W. Mitchell (Founder and Senior Adviser, Global Canopy), in their role as publishers, will...
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#Data4Covid19 Africa Challenge Webinar
From now to February 5, 2021, AFD, together with Expertise France and The GovLab, is soliciting innovative proposals using data in a collaborative and responsible way to provide actionable intellig...
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Inequalities and Environmental changes in the Mekong region: a scoping review
On 24 February at 2 pm, participate in this webinar to discover the essential foundations of today's understanding of the link between the environment and inequalities in the Mekong region.
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Lake Victoria: From Pollution to Water Restoration
Lake Victoria is the second largest source of fresh water in the world. It may provide for the livelihoods of locals, but the water quality has degraded. Due to intense human activity, the water has b...
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The macroeconomic impact of typhoons on Vietnam using satellite imagery
What is the impact of typhoons on economic activity in Vietnam? What can we learn from satellite imagery? This webinar will be held on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm.
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Overcoming Institutional and Organizational Barriers to Sanitation - The 4th scientific workshop
How to build sanitation as a general interest service? How to overcome coordination issues due to multiplicity of technologies? How do researchers analyse institutional change? How do actors deal with...
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IA-Biodiv Challenge: Research in Artificial Intelligence in the field of Biodiversity - Information sessions
Are you part of a multidisciplinary research team? Are you interested in artificial intelligence for biodiversity? The IA-Biodiv challenge is yours. Participate in one of the two information sessions...
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Digital Energy Challenge Calls for Projects - Information Webinars
Are you looking to boost your digital innovation project in the energy sector in sub-Saharan Africa? Are you involved in energy transition projects in this region? The Digital Energy Challenge is for...
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An Overview of African Research and its International Funding
What is the state of African research? What are the notable evolutions of the last few years? in terms of gender, for instance? What methodologies can be used to establish diagnoses of research system...
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Youth labour market inclusion in Niger: A LASDEL-ODI-AFD study on access to employment as a catalyst for youth...
How do intersecting vulnerabilities affect the quality of youth inclusion in labour market in Niger and their ability to move out of and remain out of poverty? How do different forms of livelihoods, e...
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