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Our teams and experts
Expertise France is the second largest development cooperation agency in Europe. We focus on cooperation projects that put people first and that develop long-term ties with our international partners. To do this, we use multiple interrelated expertises to carry out projects around the world.
Our teams fulfil roles that are both operational and cross-functional, whether in the field or at head office. But they all share one unwavering goal, and that is to codesign, implement and follow-up transformational, high-impact projects.
More than 2,400 personnel
There are nearly 900 staff in our head office and more than 1,500 personnel in the field working on short and long-term projects. They are all dedicated to development and cooperation and come from a variety of backgrounds and expertise. This is true both here in France and in our in-country teams, which include many personnel recruited directly in the partner country.
1500 personnel in the field
This strong presence in the field helps us understand the needs of our partner institutions and organisations. It also gives us a clear picture of the obstacles they face, which in turn fosters the close ties of trust that are essential to the long-term success of our projects.
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Capabilities of Expertise France
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Adapting to needs on the ground
To improve our agility, align our decisions with our partners’ strategic priorities, and oversee our rapidly growing number of projects around the world, we have embarked on a sweeping decentralisation of our agency. Our work in the field is organised as follows :
Each with 40 to 120 staff. These are located in Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Haiti, Lebanon/Jordan, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Tunisia/Libya and Ukraine.
- North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt
- West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cabo Verde
- East Africa: Sudan, Eritrea, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania
- Indian Ocean: Comoros, Madagascar, Seychelles, Mauritius
- The Andes: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
- The Southern Cone and Caribbean: Argentina, Brazil, Chili, Uruguay, Paraguay, the Caribbean
- Southern Africa: South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
- Central America: Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Cuba
- South and South-East Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam.
- Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey.
Bringing together the best in international expertise
To carry out our projects, we work with a pool of French and local experts from the public sector, as well as partners from government agencies, the private sector, and civil society. In other words, we regularly draw on French, European and international public-sector expertise to carry out development projects in several focus areas. This helps us align with local needs as closely as possible.
This makes us a coordinator of multiple interrelated expertises. As such, we are tasked by our government ministries to manage the network of international technical experts who are posted to national and international organisations the world over.
Expertise France in the field
Greater geographic reach as part of the AFD group
We are progressively expanding into new areas of the world, based on the political priorities of the international partners of France and the European Union.
The new decentralised structure of Expertise France serves to strengthen the AFD group’s network. The three organisations combined – AFD, Expertise France and Proparco – now have more than 5,000 personnel in nearly 150 countries as well as in 11 French overseas departments and territories.
Key figures
- 1500 staff in the field
- 11 in-country offices
- 10 regional offices
- 900 staff at head office
