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Continuous water supply: a decisive factor in the fight against cholera
Around 2.4 billion cases of diarrhoeal disease were recorded globally in 2015, causing approximately 500,000 deaths among children under five. Over 60% of these deaths were attributed to poor access t...
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Biodiversity - 2020 Activity Report
In 2020, AFD committed €565 million for biodiversity, i.e. 4.4% of Group commitments. This volume of commitments has increased significantly compared to 2019. Eighty-three per cent of the Group’s comm...
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Inequality Trends and Diagnostics In Kenya 2020
This report is a joint publication produced by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in partnership with the Eastern Africa research node of the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Re...
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Southern Africa - 2021-2025 Regional Strategy
Based in Johannesburg, AFD’s Southern African regional office covers South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Despite its cultural, histo...
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Support for municipalities in South Africa
The INCA Municipal Debt Fund project, a R3 billion fund, supported by INCA Portfolio Managers, SECO and AFD was established to improve the supply of urban infrastructure in intermediate cities through...
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Climate, biodiversity, inequalities… how to steer the SDGs back on track
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have given the United Nations a political and statistical framework that reconciles the human development agenda with the agenda to protect the planet. More th...
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Introduction of Coffee Cultivation in Northern Laos
For effective management of natural resources and a means to reduce poverty, countries around the world have relied on coffee cultivation. To achieve these twin goals however, coffee farming and produ...
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The African Private Sector in the Covid-19 Crisis: Impacts, Responses and Perspectives
In 2020, the Covid-19 crisis plunged Africa into an exceptional economic recession. Lockdown measures to contain the spread of the pandemic, combined with the slowdown in activity in its main trading...
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Empowering Civil Society Organizations : the localisation of AID in Lebanon
The Shabake program mobilizes 9.4 million euros to strengthen the capacities of 13 local CSOs (civil society organizations) in the implementation of their field activities. Co-financed by the Agence F...
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Reforming and Rebuilding Lebanon's Port Sector - Part II
Digitalization is one of key foundational stones for the reconstruction and modernization of the Port of Beirut (PoB) operations, according to a new World Bank note that aims to provide guidance to po...
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Rent-to-buy: What potential does it offer for improving access to affordable housing?
In a context marked by strong urbanization, the development of affordable housing can considerably improve the living conditions of low-income households in the countries of the global South. The stud...
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Toward a reliable assessment of the environmental sustainability of territories
The Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) is an innovative tool for assessing the condition of a territory's environmental functions and how sustainable they are. Despite the sparse and fragmented...
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The Qixian wetlands and nature-based solutions
The Changyuan River restoration project in Shanxi province, China, relies on nature-based solutions to restore essential ecological heritage and increase the capacity of local ecosystems to adapt to c...
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Lomé recycles its waste, it's clean!
In Lomé, a coastal city with 1.4 million inhabitants and the capital of Togo, AFD has been supporting the modernization of the solid waste treatment system for several years. A new landfill was built...
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Evaluation of AFD’s Evaluation Policy
The objective of this evaluation was to determine whether AFD's evaluation system met the objectives set out in its 2013 evaluation policy and whether evaluations ultimately proved "useful. "The aim w...
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Hard Times for Developing Countries: Africa’s Financing Needs in Question
Semestrial Panoramas are special issues of the MacroDev series written by AFD analysts; They present a synthesis of macronomic et socioeconomic analyses of emerging and developing countries. In additi...
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Lebanon - 2021-2025 Strategy
The compounding crises that Lebanon is experiencing require adopting a new strategy that takes into account issues that need to be urgently tackled in the short term, while also preparing for the futu...
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Gulf of Guinea - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy
The Gulf of Guinea is a demographic and economic heavyweight on the continent. By 2050, the region will account for 25% of the African population at a time when Africa will be home to 50% of the world...
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Incorporating biodiversity into development trajectories
In recent seminal studies for France and the Netherlands, biodiversity has been proven a significant source of financial vulnerability, both in terms of potential physical impacts, dependence to ecosy...
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Evaluation Summary - First Green Credit Line to PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (Persero)
In Indonesia, in the green finance sector, the PT-SMI project (CID1056) was subject to an evaluation in 2020. The objectives of the financing programme were: - To strengthen the supply of finance fo...
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