AFD - Universal Registration Document 2020

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PRESENTATION OF AFD

Activities of the Agence Française de Développement Group in 2020

aid programmes at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Economy and Finance. All broad-scope and joint evaluations result in publications, while only the performance sheets for the ex-post evaluations of projects/ programmes are published on the AFD website and the French cooperation open data site. In 2020, AFD assessed 44 ex-post projects in the context of 31 evaluations. Publications In 2020, 149 publications were published, an all-time high, with the average annual number of publications over the last three years standing at around 80 publications. The catalogue of research and evaluation publications exceeded in the fourth quarter 1,000 titles available in open access. They are disseminated externally via the AFD website and via two specialised research tools, Ideas/Repec and Google Scholar. The publications are promoted in several channels: a dedicated “Studies and knowledge” newsletter, through an active social media presence (1,290 Ǿ members and 2,700 subscribers of the dedicated LinkedIn Group), the use of varied formats (graphics, just out, bookmarks, teaser videos) and at conferences and at publication-related events. 1.6.6.2 The development campus The year 2020 was marked by the consequences of the health crisis, which made it impossible to conduct face-to-face training. The Campus and its partners made significant efforts to ensure that this situation did not lead to any disruption in the continuity of training courses, by working on their digitisation and remote roll-out. Training as part of the local authorities programme, the MoDEV master’s, the Social and Inclusive Business Camp (SIBC), the Lead Campus, the Young Leaders programme, the Play workshops, the “Play With Transitions” programme, the Sahélien.ne.s2040 and Mouv’Outre-Mer programmes, or the SDG summer school, have been adapted to be delivered remotely, under the best conditions. This particular context has made it possible to accelerate the operationalisation of the e-Campus tool, the AFD Group’s online portal for educational resources.This portal, designed by the Campus, aims to guide and steer learners towards reliable and educational knowledge, in a world where access to information has become considerable. It aims to facilitate the mixing of knowledge (in particular on the SDGs and major transitions), the understanding of complex issues and the acquisition of the skills of the twenty-first century to effectively support transition projects and dynamics. After one year, the e-Campus portal has already welcomed more than 10,000 users for more than 70,000 resources consulted. This portal is also a tool for promoting and disseminating the educational resources produced by the Campus and beyond, by the AFD Group. The year 2020 saw the design and implementation of four new MOOCs (1) by the Campus and its partners, numerous educational videos as part of the various distance learning courses, as well as the series “Des Nouvelles de Demain” (50 videos produced in 2020). This series highlights inspiring personalities committed tomajor transitions, who invite

people to search, think, transmit, produce or live differently. It will be supplemented by two other series, on the lessons of research in the service of major transitions towards the SDGs entitled “On the Research side”, and on the design and implementation of development projects, seen from the side of practitioners and beneficiaries, entitled “News from the Field”. The year 2020, despite the health crisis, allowed us to maintain a sustained level of training activity thanks to digital technology. Almost 40,000 Ǿ days of training were delivered through hybrid training and the production of MOOCs. In 2020, the Campus continued to implement innovative training programmes, highlighting collective intelligence and new approaches. One example is the Sahelien.ne.s.2040 course, which uses a methodology of transmission/transformation through positive foresight to support a cohort of Sahélien.ne.s in thinking about a desirable future for their region. Another is the Mouv’Outremer programme which, by usingdesign thinking and prototyping, mobilises committed players in the French Overseas Departments and Collectivities around concrete projects aimed at achieving the SDGs. Lastly, this is the case of the SDG summer school, which, through an interdisciplinary, inter-cultural and cross-sectoral approach, brought together around a hundred scientists and SDG implementation stakeholders to collectively identify research issues at the heart of intertwined sustainable development challenges. The year 2020 also saw the launch of new instructions, to prepare the innovative training courses of tomorrow. These include, for example, a training course on PPPs and the governance of public enterprises, a training programme for CCIs in Africa, an “Agir pour le Vivant” residency programme in Africa, a support programme for investment fund holders and a programme on strengthening the managerial capacities of African managers. The activity of supporting and leading communities of change agents is still a key component of the training offer. In 2020, the Campus coordinated around ten learning communities bringing together players from various horizons involved in transitions. In 2020, the SIBC, along with Proparco, AFI and INN, for example, supported 60 Ǿ start-ups producing a positive impact in Africa, as part of a growing community which today includes over 200 Ǿ project initiators and mentors reaching out to 45,000 Ǿ members on Facebook. In 2020, the Local Authorities Steering (PCL) programme continued to evolve thanks to various co-constructionworkshops on participatory urban planning. These workshops will make it possible to design training courses on this essential theme for the emergence of new ways of thinking about development and urban mobility. The Campus reinforced its positioning as a platform, multiplying structuring partnerships for the deployment of its training actions. New partnerships were set up in 2020, for example with Senghor University, Trace Academia, the Institut des Futurs Souhaitables, Agir pour le Vivant, Parlement des Entrepreneurs d’Avenir, Ateliers de la pensée de Dakar, the Spinoza Foundation, the Cynthia Fleury Chair and the Charles Dullin Academy. The partnership with the Mohammed Ǿ VI University in Morocco was strengthened following the setting up of a new training course

(1) The MOOC on Biodiversity and the MOOC on urban mobility in Africa were produced and performed in 2020. A MOOC on sustainable and innovative cities, a MOOC on gender as well as educational capsules on green finance were also produced in 2020 and will be broadcast in 2021. MOOCs on the SDGs and on the Ecological and Energy Transition were broadcast in 2020 (produced in 2019).

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