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STATEMENT OF NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE 2 The Group’s contribution to sustainable development

2.4 The Group’s contribution to sustainable development

Adopted in 2018, the AFD Group’s Strategic Orientation Plan places its action within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Paris Climate Agreement, while promoting social ties, in order to help build “a world in common”. Accordingly, the AFD Group is responsible for helping

to achieve the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda by supporting six transitions: demographic and social, energy, territorial and ecological, digital and technological, and political and public (1) .

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❙ Link between the SDGs and the transitions in the AFD Group 2018-2022 Strategic Orientation Plan TheGroup checks the validity of its operations in the geographical and sectorial environments in which it operates, and conducts regular impact and result assessments. In order to ensure that sustainable development issues are taken into account in the financed projects, and to guarantee they are consistent with the adopted strategies, in 2014 AFD started to use a “Sustainable development Analysis and Opinion” tool. This system consists of (i) Ǿ an analysis conducted by the Operations Department project team during the appraisal, providing the wherewithal to assess the expected effects (positive, neutral or negative) for each aspect of sustainable development (2) , and (ii) Ǿ of a sustainable development opinion given by the

Sustainable Development Analysis and Opinion unit, in the Strategy Department. This opinion appears in the notes sent to the decision-making bodies (in particular the Board of Directors). 2.4.1 Impact of AFD’s activity AFD funds and supports development projects and programmes that contribute to direct and indirect job creation and to regional development in its countries of operation. AFD calculates result indicators to measure and provide a summarised report on the impact of its activity on the ground, in order to serve the development of its areas of operation and the populations benefiting from the projects funded, and, more generally, the impact of its work on the SDGs.

(1) https://www.afd.fr/en/ressources/afd-group-2018-2022-strategy. (2) The six dimensions of the sustainable development analysis are: (i) sustainable growth and resilient economy; (ii) social well-being and reduction of social imbalances; (ii) gender equality; (iv) biodiversity preservation, management of natural environments and resources; (v) climate: transition to a low carbon trajectory (v-a) and resilience to climate change (v-b); (vi) long-term effects of the project and governance framework.

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