AFD // 2021 Universal Registration Document

STATEMENT OF NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE Coordination with development players: the “Priority to partnership”

P the French local authority financing facility (FICOL); P the Crisis recovery expertise and studies fund (FEESC). In 2021, these different tools represented €88.7M in commitment approvals. In 2022, the integration of Expertise France will provide the AFD Group with additional and complementary leverage to reach its goals set with partners. In 2021, AFD, notably thanks to its dedicated capacity-building unit, worked on a range of services to support the organisational transformations of our project manager customers and tested them through pilot projects: P “Transfo’Agile”: rapid support offer (continuous support and rapid deployment of experts from the unit and consultants); P an initial FAPS loan of €500,000 aimed at mobilising transformation consultants; P a structured project portfolio with five Regional Directorates and local offices from the network, although this does not exclude requests outside these regions; P internal communication with the head office and the network, to integrate the “transformation” habit and structure dedicated project components, or initiate a business relationship with young project managers (activities without an appraisal). In 2021, AFD also worked on a methodological guide on the financing of public policies and programmes, including: P a “quick screening” method at the pre-identification or identification stage and, depending on the maturity of the programme or the public policy, an appraisal and consulting service scenario to be triggered; P a standard approach to support appraisals; P a typology of consulting activities available to support the design of public policies or programmes, or to support their implementation or reform. Lastly, at the end of 2021, AFD launched a project to support innovation in order to provide tools for project managers for the implementation of citizen participation actions. It aims to: P help structure citizen participation and innovation activities in project management that will be funded the AFD group; P promote a range of innovative public action approaches among beneficiary project managers and then support them in the initial stages (calls for projects, prototyping, beneficiary oriented design); P support the use of digital technology, considered an essential condition for the success of the institutional development and strengthening process, as a decisive means of guaranteeing the success of the transformation and of public action.

With the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a portfolio review and strategic coordination meetings were held, for example the annual retreat in April ɸ 2021. The priority given by the ADB to massive short-term countercyclical action with rapid disbursements, combined with a drying up of cofunding opportunities in South-East Asia, explained the decline in our joint operational results. The amount of AFD-ADB cofunding over the 2019-2021 period is estimated at a total of US$2.8bn. In 2021, we co-financed three operations with ADB, amounting to €200.5M in AFD financing and €415M in ADB financing, i.e. a cumulative total of €615.5M in cofunding. The drive to strengthen AFD’s relations with United Nations agencies continued in 2021, with, notably, a strong mobilisation of the UN sphere around the Finance in Common Summit (speech by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, co organisation of IFAD, UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, ILO and UNWomen participation in the thematic coalitions), reflected by several new operations. In 2021, the United Nations also recognised, for the first time, the role of public development banks in their annual report on the financing of development. Lastly, 2021 was marked by close cooperation with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on the theme of gender, as part of the Generation Equality Forum, and through regular discussions on vaccination, in response to the health crisis. At the same time, collaboration with the Aga Khan Network for Development (AKDN) continued in 2021 despite the impacts of the health crisis on certain ongoing operations. In 2022, AFD and AKDN will reinforce their cooperation on gender, climate, agroecology and vulnerabilities. 2.6.3 Support for project management and capacity-building Project managers steer the projects, programmes or public policies financed by the AFD group. Supporting activities must enable them, notably, to better coordinate and manage financing and ensure the due completion of the activities and/or work planned. And in fine , the Group’s strategic and operational objective is to promote more efficient, user-centric, open, innovative and transparent institutions. AFD acts (i) directly through its technical experts working to strengthen the capacities of our partners and (ii) through specific tools to mobilise consultancies to support project management, such as: P the start-up, preparation and monitoring facility project (FAPS); P the Technical expertise and experience exchange fund (FEXTE);

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