AGENCE FRANÇAISE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT
2015
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Results
Our goal: Sustainable development As France’s development agency, AFD promotes economically, socially and environmentally sound development projects and programmes to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals adopted in September 2015. The Agency finances and assists with projects that genuinely improve all aspects of life. To meet France’s ambitious commitments to the world, AFD sees its central mission as fighting climate disruption, protecting the environment, building sustainable infrastructure, and reducing inequalities and vulnerabilities.
FINANCING AND SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMEMNT
€ 8.3 € 3.8
billion in financing commitments, a 3% increase over 2014
billion for the Middle East and Africa
44%
More than
150
of foreign projects and programmes cofinanced with international donors
partnerships with international donors, United Nations agencies, local governments, NGOs, companies, foundations and think tanks to increase aid effectiveness
ADVANCING DEVELOPMENT WHILE FIGHTING CLIMATE DISRUPTION
€2.9
billion to foreign countries and the French Overseas Provinces for climate-smart development projects
€21 billion over ten years
55%
of foreign-aid financing benefits both communities and the climate
REDUCING INEQUALITIES AND VULNERABILITIES
69 %
of grant monies go to the poorest sub-Sarahan Afriican countriest
41%
9.5 %
of grant monies go to countries in crisis, such as Haiti and the Palestinian Territories
of foreign-aid projects are directly aimed at increasing gender equality
20 15
HIGHLIGHTS
€ 575
€ 65
million for climate-change adaptation projects, particularly in the least-developed and island nations
million for projects led by French nongovernmental organizations
January - December
A worldwide exhibition, “60 Solutions to Climate Change” featured 240 presentations to 670,000 attendees in order to raise awareness about real pro-climate solutions for economic development.
AFD supported the cities of Lyon, Mulhouse and Nantes in their cooperation projects with (respectively) PortoNovo in Benin, Mahajanga in Madagascar for waste management, and Dschang in Cameroon for hydroelectric energy production.
AFD opened three new offices: La Paz in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Quito in the Republic of Ecuador, and Tashkent in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The impacts of our projects 2013 - 2015 ADVANCING BOTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL PROGRESS
150,000
SMALL BUSINESSES received advisory services or financing
2.6
3.8
MILLION CHILDREN
accessed a reliable source of clean drinking water
attended primary or elementary school
373,000 1
YOUTH enrolled in vocational training programs
MILLION PEOPLE
MILLION PEOPLE
benefitted from improved sanitation systems
16
MILLION WOMEN
AND 15 MILLION CHILDREN
under age five received health care*
PROMOTING CLIMATE-SMART GROWTH MODELS
34
MILLION HECTARES
of terrestrial and marine ecosystems protected each year by biodiversity-conservation, restoration and sustainable resource-management programmes
710,000
FAMILY FARMS supported on
average each year through funding for training programmes, planting assistance, and irrigation systems
Climate-change mitigation projects financed between 2013 and 2015 will abate greenhouse gases by
11.4
million metric tons of CO2e per year
REBALANCING REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT DISPARITIES
1.6
MILLION PASSENGERS per day
rode new or modernized public transit
1,750
MEGAWATTS of
renewables installed
2.6
MILLION PEOPLE housed in
improved and safer homes
602,000 PEOPLE accessed electricity or electrical grid connections
* Numbers for 2015 only, resulting from the AFD implementation of the French Muskoka Fund, which aims to reduce infant mortality by 66% and maternal mortality by 75% in Haiti and in French-speaking African countries.
Responding to the needs of nations and territories
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
In France’s overseas provinces and in foreign countries, AFD helps a wide variety of local and central governments – ranging from the least-developed to emerging powers – along with banks, private companies, nongovernmental organizations and associations by financing sustainable development solutions, sharing knowledge and expertise, advising on public policy, producing knowledge and participating in international debate.
14%
of total financing
€1.2
billion
AFD prioritizes Sub-Saharan and North Africa for financing and interventions that increase prosperity and stability, as the stakes are particularly high in these regions.
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
12%
of total financing
€1
billion
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 81%
of France’s state-allocated aid funding
38%
of total financing (+6%)
€3.1 billion
AFD Group 2015 financing commitments.
13-16 July
August
25 August
25 September
AFD participated in the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa.
AFD loaned €275 million to Colombia to support its national climate policy, particularly the sustainable development of rural areas.
The French president announced a merger between AFD and the Caisse des Dépôts Group, making AFD Europe’s largest development bank.
The United Nations General Assembly adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals. France made a commitment to contribute an additional €4 billion by 2020 to finance AFD-implemented development and pro-climate projects.
Using a variety of financing tools in diverse sectors of intervention
ASIA
17%
of total financing
€1.4 billion
€ 1.862 MM (22.5%)
Business, industry and trade
€ 1.678 MM (20%)
Clean and affordable energy
(microcredit, SME support, banking sector)
€ 1.592 MM (19%)
Infrastructure and sustainable cities
€ 863 MM (10.5%)
Healthcare and quality education
€ 775 MM (9.5%)
Drinking water and sanitation
€ 696 MM (8.5%) € 447 MM (5%) € 397 MM (5%)
Environment and natural resources Other (budget support, etc.) Sustainable agriculture and food security
Sectors funded in millions of euros
FRENCH OVERSEAS PROVINCES
Financial tools deployed in millions of euros
19%
IN THE FRENCH OVERSEAS PROVINCES
€ 77 MM (5%) € 547 MM (35%) € 945 MM (60%)
of total financing
€1.6 billion
Credit guarantees and private equity SME financing (Bpifrance) Loans
IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
In the rest of the world, AFD finances low-carbon sustainable-development projects that benefit everyone. The Agency also strives to increase the sustainability of production and consumption systems and to promote higher labor and environmental standards for better regulation of globalization.
€ 65 MM (1%) € 153 MM (2.5%) € 210 MM (3%) € 307 MM (4.5%) € 684 MM (10%) € 2.133 MM (31.5%) € 3.194 MM (47.5%)
NGO funding Delegated funds from other donors Project grants Credit guarantees and private equity Other grants and subsidies* Non-sovereign loans Sovereign loans
* Debt relief and development contracts, budget support
October
20 November
12 December
25 November-30 December
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a quartet of Tunisian civil society organizations, including two funded by AFD as part of its Support Programme for Professional Training and Integration.
AFD signed an agreement with the African Development Bank to increase joint funding for projects in sub-Saharan and North Africa.
The first universal climate agreement was adopted during the COP 21 Paris Climate Conference. AFD had helped 26 African countries design and draft their contributions to the agreement.
In order to raise awareness about the stakes surrounding climate change and development, AFD funded “Born Somewhere”, an interactive exhibition that invited viewers in Paris to see what it is like to live on another continent.
As a public financial institution, AFD has implemented French development policy for 75 years. In recent years, globalization has diminished extreme poverty while increasing inequalities and creating new tensions. Developing and developed countries now share the same economic, social and environmental challenges. To confront these challenges, AFD promotes new economic-growth and development models that have proven more resilient, less polluting, and better able to meet global aspirations for prosperity and equality. In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, AFD’s actions aim to: • Transform economic growth into social progress for all • Place environmental concerns at the heart of growth models • Develop rural and urban areas in environmentally and socially sound ways AFD can draw upon the expertise and the commitment of its 1837 employees and agents around the world. Through them, the Agency finances and assists public and private development actions, both in the French Overseas Provinces and in more than 90 developing and emerging countries. The Agency also helps shape public policies that, in turn, define future development paths. Partnerships and innovation remain central to AFD’s work, which revolves around: • Financing projects and programmes • Sharing expertise and savoir-faire • Creating knowledge and participating in international debate
Agence Française de Développement Tel: +33 1 53 44 31 31 - Fax: +33 1 44 87 99 39 5, rue Roland Barthes - 75598 Paris Cedex 12 France www.afd.fr
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