Mission, Vision & Values
The French Development Agency (AFD) is a financial institution that is at the heart of France’s Development Assistance policy. Its mission is to finance development.

Thanks to the broad line of financial tools that it has been able to engineer and enhance, AFD supports public authorities, the private sector and local associate networks, to implement a wide range of social and economic projects. AFD is thus present on five continents and in Overseas France.


AFD’s actions in favor of economic growth and preservation of the environment fall directly within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These priority development objectives were set out in the year 2000 by the United Nations and seek to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015.


AFD also contributes to the preservation of Global Public Goods and can react to crisis situations. The Agency is also developing financial and intellectual partnerships with other donors and strives to increase French influence in the area of development.


AFD is involved in Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean Basin, in the Middle East, and in Overseas France, thanks to its network of agencies and its different subsidiaries.

The AFD Group brings together more than a thousand agents that each day use their abilities and their know-how to underpin their commitment to development.