In an island where 80 % of the population lives below the poverty line, AFD finances a project for “Reducing gender violence within colleges by the practice of rugby”. It is the Association Terres en Mélés which inherited the Somme, for a three -phase project. Phase 1, from January 2024 to December 2026: deconstruction of gender stereotypes, in particular through “Twenty EPS teachers”. “A behavioral study” is scheduled for 200 students with a goal: that “90 % college students develop the sorority spirit”. Phase 2: Management of victims of “Gender -based violence”. Phase 3: that the association reaches autonomy.
Algeria/Tunisia: youth and power to act (2024-in course)
700,000 euros
Citizen governance, inclusiveness, promotion of youth … These are the keywords associated with the grant bequeathed by AFD to the NGO Migration-Citoyenée-Développement (GRDR). The goal is more than vague: to overcome the “Difficulties encountered by youth in Tunisia and Algeria”. The tools are also: implementation of an “integral integration” of an economic, citizen or climate, dedicated to young people from the two Maghreb countries. More concretely, AFD hopes to create an associative fabric with “Local scale”which would integrate 600 to 800 young people, after the project supposed to last three years.
Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger: research on the pilgrim locust
3 million euros
It is a multilateral aid granted to the UN specialized agency for food and agriculture (FAO), via its commission to combat the pilgrim locust. A sum paid for “Improve food security and preserve human, animal health and ecosystems”threatened by this invasive insect which attacks agricultural crops. Laudable objective … but the application of the project remains nevertheless vague, described as as much “Operational research activities”. AFD’s communication communication note gives no other information. The report only indicates that funding is divided into two parts: two million for project management, to which is added one million “In support of the Regional Emergency Plan in the face of the Acridian threat”. THE “Expected effects” are just as blurred: “By improving knowledge on the evolution of the dynamics of in connection locals, it will ensure the relevance of the means of prevention, in particular within the framework of climate change. »» On May 13, 2024 signed the end of the project … Since then, no news on the progress of the anti -acridian struggle.
Senegal: socio-professional integration of young girls and boys talibés in peri-urban areas
1.2 million euros
The Islamic France help has benefited since 2020 from a subsidy for Senegal. The objective: “Training and socio -professional integration of young girls and boys Talibés (students, editor’s note) in peri -urban areas. »» In other words, a grant planned for students from traditional Koranic schools, called non -formal. These establishments, often very precarious, are not officially recognized by the Senegalese state. The project therefore plans to help students “Little taken into account by public policies”. Temporary assessment? “An accessible and specific inclusion model” ; “At least 210 of these young talibés are reintegrated” (sic); “At least 210 of the targeted young people consider that their opinions are taken into account and integrated into the public policies of the communities”. An assessment whose objectivity is therefore based on their “consideration”.
Chad: inclusive development of reception areas for refugees (2018 – 2022)
21.5 million euros
If the Chadian authorities recently ended the military partnership with the French army, AFD continues to operate in the country. In 2018, in partnership with the European Union, AFD granted this subsidy to the “Doza” project, which aims to reintegrate the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Chad in an “inclusive” local economy. With various missions: partnerships between private and public actors, improvement of access to basic social services for migrants, fight against inter -community tensions … Since the start of the project, in 2018, more than 500,000 new migrants have come to settle in Chad.
Lebanon: fight against menstrual insecurity and promotion of economic empowerment (in progress)
637,000 euros
In the Akkar region, in the northern border of Syria, the economic and security situation is catastrophic. Many Syrian refugees live in deplorable conditions and most Lebanese infrastructure are in a pitiful state. But AFD has chosen to finance a project to combat “Menstrual insecurity” Lebanese women. The subsidy was paid to the French NGO “International France Plan”, specializing in women’s law. AFD funding thus made it possible to set up a local production of hygienic towels as well as the “Awareness of more than 4,000 young women” to sexual health, menstruation and … “Gender equality”. Financial support justified by the objective of “Economic independence and menstrual health of adolescent girls and women”while contributing to “Evolve practices and mentalities around menstruation and harmful gender standards”.
Egypt: psychiatric help for migrants… (2019 – mentioned in progress)
1.2 million euros
It was the NGO Doctors of the World who benefited from the grant to “Access to mental health services and psychosocial support” as well as the “Detection of handicap for migrants and the most vulnerable host populations in Egypt”. To achieve its objectives, the project provides, among other things, “Strengthening the capacities of the staff of primary health care centers” ; “Workshops with migrants on protective mechanisms” ; “The training of mothers of children with disabilities” or even “Advanced actions”. Actions undoubtedly legitimate in Egypt, but with a French money which is lacking in the mental health system … French, promoted to the great national cause for the year 2025. Last January the National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE) alerted indeed to a “Denial of an extremely serious situation”. An observation illustrated in figures by a parliamentary report of December 2024: “The French psychiatric care system experienced a net loss of 7,000 full -time places between 2008 and 2022.”
Niger – Burkina – Ivory Coast – Benin – Senegal: sexual and reproductive health rights (2019 – in progress)
1.3 million euros
In the Sahelian band, in Niger, France was expelled from the country in August 2023. After a coup, a military junta took power and made France its enemy n ° 1. However, the French Development Aid Agency has not withdrawn from the country and continues to finance several important projects. Construction of a photovoltaic power plant, subsidies to agricultural or pastoral projects, AFD is also involved in projects promoting access to abortion and contraception, for more than a million euros. In Niger, it is the feminist NGO Equipop, which “Place the genre approach at the heart of its actions”who received financial support from AFD.
La Cimade: Act for better protection of migrants’ rights (2019 – in progress)
200,000 euros.
In Senegal, Comoros and Suriname, the French Development Aid Agency subsidizes the NGO “La Cimade”, regularly accused of supporting illegal immigration in France. Entitled “Acting for better protection of migrants’ rights”, the project, with fairly vague contours, “Beaks of the fundamental issues and modalities of this protection along the migratory routes”. The Cimade thus supervises the African collective Loujna Tounkaranké, which is specific to help African migrants to perform their crossing. In Suriname and Comoros, no partner has yet been identified.
Jordan: non-generated budgets (2022-in progress)
151 million euros (including a share of “loans”)
AFD accompanies the kingdom of Jordan in the implementation of a “Gender -sensitive budgeting”. On its website, the agency mentions a sovereign loan, but also subsidies to do this. The objective? Awareness of Jordanian economic and institutional players to the question of “gender equality” and better diversity in recruitment. Without concrete measures being mentioned, AFD establishes a difficult goal to seize: “The full consideration of gender inequalities at all stages of the budget chain and to reconcile, align and adjust the double” positive “and” integrated “approach, as many markers of the BSG (gender -sensitive budgeting) in Jordan. »»
Africa and Caucasus: Holistic protection of sexual and gender minorities (2024 – in progress)
1.7 million euros
It is the NGO “Acting together for human rights” which received the grant to promote the inclusion of sexual minorities in the Caucasus or in Africa. How ? By financing representative organizations of “Sex and gender minorities”by promoting inclusion programs, by implementing cultural, media and artistic events in order to raise awareness of the fate of LGBTQIA+communities. In addition to the beneficiary NGO, AFD specifies relying on partner associations such as “homophobia emergency”, “rainbow heart” or the “Le Refuge Foundation”. Designed for a period of 30 months, the program hopes openly to succeed in “Strengthen influence in the international processes of organizations representing sexual minorities”.
The example of Comoros
250 million euros in 26 projects
In 2019, so -called “cooperation” agreements were signed between France and the government of the Comoros: in this case, the stake was migratory. France investigated 150 million euros via development aid, in exchange for which the Comorian government undertook to combat illegal immigration which overwhelms the French island of Mayotte.
Since then, the budget has increased to reach 250 million euros, divided into 26 projects and 10 intervention sectors. Health, schools, water, infrastructure, governance, support for various ministries, implementation of generalized health insurance … Or exactly what neighboring Mahorais are missing.
Authorities welcome a success, explaining that the Comoros prevent the departure of 8000 people per year to Mayotte. A drop of water while 40 departure points are identified and the INSEE regional chief declared last year in Mayotte, “Almost one in two residents is of foreign nationality, or 48 % of the total population, and 95 % of these foreigners are Comorians. »»
Since then, not only does the Comorian government openly speak of “The so-called belonging of the island of Mayotte to France”thus denying the sovereignty of France on its territory, but Guillaume Bigot evokes in his relationship the existence of a vicious circle of “Help blackmail”. Now that she is in place, her withdrawal would lead to massive departures, threaten the Comorian authorities. Authorities of a country unfortunately known for its endemic corruption … in which aid to “Governance” However, reach millions
