Frédérique Willard, Agence Française de Développement – Mainstreaming biodiversity in AFD strategies.

Mainstreaming biodiversity in
AFD strategies
Frédérique Willard
willardf@afd.fr
3 March 2016

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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

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Diverse sectors of Intervention (2014)
 Development projects by sectors :

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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Logical Framework of AFD Biodiversity
Cross-sectoral Intervention Framework
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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

Sustainable Development Second Opinion
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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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Biodiversity Conservation: a key element
for sustainable development
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