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AFD and Gender Equality in Eurasia
Financing initiatives that promote gender equality, women's rights and their empowerment is at the very core of AFD commitments, in line with France's International Strategy for Gender Equality. AFD i...
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From Multi- to National- and Back Again: Realizing the SDG Potential of Public Development Banks
Public multilateral (MDBs) and national development banks (NDBs) are already working to advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But can they do more to help deliver finance at the righ...
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A public policy loan to support the Philippines in the implementation of its climate policies
The Philippines is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. In addition to their direct impacts on people, it could cost the country more than $3.5 billion a year by 2040. The Philippin...
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The Benefits of Marine Protected Areas in Fighting Inequality and Fostering Environmental Sustainability in In...
This research paper aims to explore the potential benefits of marine protected areas (MPAs) and assess their impact on environmental sustainability and inequality in Indonesia.
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The African Economy 2022
This issue of L’Économie africaine has been created by Éditions La Découverte and the Agence française de développement (AFD) (French Development Agency), who are continuing their collaboration for th...
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Knowledge production at AFD
AFD has a dual mandate of financing sustainable and shared development and producing knowledge. The second strand of its mission is now more necessary than ever before. It needs to find responses to t...
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Water services and the private sector in developing countries. Comparative perceptions and discussion dynamics
During the past twenty years, participation of the private sector in the field of essential services has been a topic of much discussion, allowing the expression of very different viewpoints and the m...
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A Glance at Sustainable Urban Development - Methodological, Crosscutting and Operational Approaches
This work contains a verbatim account of the presentations and debates from the plenary sessions and workshops that took place from 21th to 29th July 2014 at the University of Da Lat on the topic of "...
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Analysis, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Contributions to Social Change - Meaningfully measuring international ...
There are many actors in the field of international solidarity and decentralized development cooperation who seek to orient or contribute to "social change". While they agree that social change canno...
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Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities: The Example of Bamako, Mali
"In any city, the price and quality of housing is so influenced by what land is available for housing, under what terms, with what services, and at what cost. This book provides a very rich and detail...
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The Challenge of Stability and Security in West Africa
This book seeks to critically examine the challenges of fragility and security in West Africa, along with the factors of resilience. It seeks to investigate key drivers of conflict and violence, and t...
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia has experienced significant economic growth for 25 years. Today, it is faced with some slowdown and uncertainty over its future institutional status. AFD is supporting this decisive peri...
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Evaluation of the Sectoral Intervention Framework “Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa”
In 2015, the Evaluation and Capitalisation Division (EVA) of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) initiated an evaluation of the Sectoral Intervention Framework for Food Security in Sub-Saharan Afr...
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Can Arabo-Islamic education in sub-Saharan Africa be ignored?
Arab-Islamic education in general, and Koranic schools in particular, are still largely excluded from programs advocating for education for all in Africa. Consequently, recognizing its existence, its...
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Indonesia Climate Change Programme Loan (ICCPL)
In close partnership in 2008, 2009 and 2010, JICA and AFD approved a series of “climate” budget loans to the Indonesian Government in order to facilitate the design and implementation of an ambitious...
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Brochure ARIZ
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up the bulk of the economic base in developing and emerging countries. To create and develop their activity, they need medium and long-term financial res...
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Water and sanitation: mid-term review of the sectorial intervention framework for 2014-2018
This document is the water and sanitation mid-term review of the sectorial intervention framework for 2014-2018
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Prevention or treatment? The introduction of a new antimalarial drug in Angola
In spite of massive efforts to generalize efficient prevention, such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITN) or long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), malaria remains prevalent in many countries a...
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Brochure AFD and European partnership
AFD and European Union (EU) institutions have decided to strengthen their partnership, with the aim of enhancing their effectiveness in development assistance and the fight against extreme poverty. O...
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AFD and capacity development support
In the poorest countries, the weak capacities of project initiators, both public (ministries, local authorities) and private (banks, local companies, professional organizations), are often the first b...
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