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Climate - AFD 2018 Activity Report
The effects of climate disturbances are putting people and ecosystems in peril, especially in the developing countries most vulnerable to climate change. To limit the increase in global temperature by...
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Guide for Proparco Clients
Proparco’s goal is to promote private sector development in developing and transition countries. In order to achieve sustainable growth and lasting improvements in people’s lives, we are committed to...
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Guide for Complainants / Communities
Proparco’s goal is to promote private sector development in developing and transition countries. In order to achieve sustainable growth and lasting improvements in people’s lives, we are committed to...
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Supporting responsible microfinance in rural areas in Morocco
Supporting responsible microfinance in rural areas in Morocco
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Kashf - Microfinance empowering women entrepreneurs in Pakistan
Enabling women to become actors of social and economic change in Pakistan is the number one objective of the Kashf Foundation, which has specialized in microfinance for more than 20 years. In 2017, Pr...
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Independent Complaints Mechanism Proparco
With this document, Proparco introduces its Independent Complaints Mechanism (hereafter also: the ‘Mechanism’ or ‘ICM’) and accompanying Procedure. This document describes the structure and governance...
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Video - Corporate governance, edition no. 30 of Proparco’s magazine
The implementation of good governance practices plays a major role in ensuring the growth of a company. In its latest issue, PROPARCO’s Private Sector & Development magazine addresses this question fr...
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Clean and affordable solar energy in India, with Azure Power
India’s renewable energy potential is untapped, yet a large portion of its population remains disconnected from the grid. Since 2013, Proparco has been supporting Azure Power, one of India's leading p...
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Private Sector & Development #30 - Corporate governance: a driver for growth
The 30th Private Sector & Development magazine focuses on the issues and challenges of a key topic for business growth: governance. Good governance practices play a fundamental role in ensuring the su...
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Proparco celebrates its 40th anniversary in East Africa
Proparco celebrates its 40th anniversary in East Africa.
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Unfunded local currency keystone financing solution
UNLOCK is Proparco’s innovative guarantee scheme offered to financial institutions to jointly cover the risk on long-term financing in local currency for key development projects.
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AFD GROUP 2018-2022 STRATEGY
International development-policy goals have changed radically over the past two years with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change. In turn, France now aims...
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UNLOCK - Unfunded local currency keystone financing solution
UNLOCK is Proparco’s innovative guarantee scheme offered to financial institutions to jointly cover the risk on long-term financing in local currency for key development projects.
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PROPARCO's activity Report 2017
In 2017, Proparco celebrated its 40th anniversary. That’s the age to look back on past achievements and to set future goals. And that’s what we have done, with an ambitious new strategy focusing on fi...
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AFD - Panorama 2018
AFD is the leading actor in France’s development policy. We commit to projects that genuinely improve the everyday lives of people, both in developing and emerging countries and in the French overseas...
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Climate - AFD 2017 Activity Report
The climate is today the identity marker of the AFD group. In 2018, this already strong orientation was reinforced by the adoption of a new climate strategy (2017-2022), which reflects AFD's ambition...
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Special issue - The hotel and tourism industries in Africa: a booming market
The tourism and hotel industry, which is often vaunted for its capacity to create jobs and boost regional economic activity in general, has been enjoying a boom in Africa for a few years now.
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PROTEAK - Mexico's Pioneering Planters
Proteak is Mexico's leading agroforestry company. In southeastern Mexico, a region facing an unprecedented social crisis, the company has established a profitable and sustainable strategy to grow euca...
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) AFD 2017
The AFD Group's social responsibility report for the 2017 financial year has just been published. It presents the Group's policies, practices and tools in the social, environmental and governance fiel...
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