Download - Frédérique Willard, Agence Française de Développement – Mainstreaming biodiversity in AFD strategies
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AFD is the Development Bank of France
AFD = implementing arm of the French Official Development Aid policy
AFD has worked for more than 70 years to alleviate poverty and foster sustainable development in the developing world (operations in more than 90 countries)
8,3 Billion Euros committed in 2015
Learning from AFD’s Past Work
For more than 20 years: support to sustainable management of tropical rainforest (particularly in the Congo Basin) and fisheries (West Africa, Madagascar)
From 2003 onwards: expand and improve management of protected areas (Madagascar, Mozambique, Morocco, Kenya, Central Africa) => « Dedicated projects »
Biodiversity progressively recognized as a cross-cutting issue to other sectors : energy, transportation, agriculture, water management and sanitation, etc. (as for climate) => led to the development of AFD Biodiversity cross-sectoral intervention framework 2013-2016
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1st Objective : Biodiversity Commitments (2000 – 2014)
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AFD Commitments : 160 M€ annually by 2015
In 2014: 144,1 M€ / In 2015 : 250 M€
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2nd objective: Mainstreaming Biodiversity into development policies and practices
Strengthen integration of biodiversity in projects and programs supported by AFD: Exclusion list and biodiversity Systematic Mainstreaming of biodiversity issues in the drawing up of
strategic documents Ex-ante analysis of projects financed by AFD Group according to
environment and social management risks instruments Systematic Independent Opinion provided by the Second Opinion
department on six aspects of Sustainable Development (economic development, poverty alleviation, gender equality, biodiversity and resource management and climate change).
Implementation, by project owners, of the best options to “avoid, reduce and offset” the residual impacts of projects and as possible ensure net gain of biodiversity
Sensitize AFD project managers (100 managers trained in 5 years)
Facilitate private investments that improve biodiversity components
Main Challenges to Mainstreaming
Stand alone biodiversity conservation projects are difficult to sell as a loan
Projects which adopt an ecosystem approach to natural resources management (water, forest) are more in line with loan financial tool.
AFD ESG processes are fairly rigorous : some infrastructure projects are financed by non traditional donors.
Complementarities with Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) / Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) – (WCS report : more wildlife in forest concessions than in protected areas in North Congo!)
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