2018, a crucial year for Expertise France

In 2017, Expertise France confirmed its role as a key actor in international technical cooperation to support the external action of France and the European Union. An increasing number of donors and beneficiaries rely on us to support them and build public policies tailored to their institutional, economic, social, environmental and security challenges. “French-style” expertise is a product which exports well, as confirmed by an activity that has remained dynamic for the third year of activity and by our operations in all the key sectors of the security-governance-development contiguum.

Our teams now work in around a hundred countries, most of which are in Africa, in sectors ranging from strengthening health systems to public finances, and including vocational training and sustainable development. We are working in Côte d’Ivoire on civil protection and renewable energies, in Angola on vocational training, as well as in Latin America on the fight against organised crime and in the Caribbean on biodiversity conservation.

A strategic milestone

Expertise France has now launched work on its integration into an extended AFD Group. It is a strategic milestone which ties in with France’s objective of offering our partners in the South a comprehensive range of financial solutions and expertise services to meet their expectations and of scaling up the impact on the major challenges of tomorrow. The agency is banking on the fact that together, the French cooperation team will do more and better in a context of the renewal of the French cooperation policy.

It is also in this context that in May 2018, the agency took over as Chair of the Practitioners’ Network, the network of European cooperation agencies, succeeding Germany’s GIZ and the British Council. Indeed, we are convinced of the relevance of the European level to address the major development challenges.

Expertise France firmly aims to be a bridge between national and European expertise and expertise in the South. This is the message we promote with the teams and with our partners here and abroad via a vision which mobilizes our teams:
 

Let us build together a sustainable and inclusive world for all!