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Social Housing and Upward Mobility in South African Cities
Not enough is being done to maximise the prospects of upward mobility for the tenants of South Africa’s social housing programme. Household-level improvements in well-being are generally taken for gra...
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Displaced Sand, Displaced People: Examining the Livelihood Impacts of Sand Mining
The social, economic and ecological consequences of unabated sand exploitation are profound. Sand miners, working directly in riverbed sand mining in and around Phnom Penh and urban farmers, whose liv...
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Environmental Inequalities in the Mekong River Basin: A systematic mapping of existing knowledge
How do accelerating environmental changes impact inequalities and how do rising inequalities affect, in reverse, environmental dynamics? Numerous studies have tackled one specific aspect of the relati...
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Inequality measurements: the impact of a correction for missing top incomes in a South African household surve...
Often the richest households are poorly captured in household surveys1, leading to a likely underestimate of inequality in analyses such as CEQ Assessments2 that conduct fiscal incidence using househo...
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South African housing subsidies: the challenges of measuring the impact of a productive asset
When analysing the impact of South African housing subsidies on poverty, Goldman, Woolard & Jellema (forthcoming) find that the housing programme looks less progressive than expected. They find both t...
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Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: A Review Paper
Very little attention has been paid to African inequality dynamics in high-profile international discussions of changing global inequality despite the fact that African dynamics will become increasing...
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The distributional impacts of development cooperation projects
In 2015, world leaders committed, through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to reduce inequalities. Accordingly, a specific Sustainable Development Goals Goal (SDG 10) has b...
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AFD and the water and sanitation sector in Uganda
Uganda has embarked on an ambitious Water and Sanitation Sector Development Program. In order to contribute to its achievement, AFD is focusing on three main strategic lines: Improving access to...
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Water and Sanitation - 2020 Activity Report
The United Nations recognized the human right to access to water and sanitation in 2010, but there is still much progress to be made: over two billion people do not have access to a quality drinking w...
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Protecting the water ressource of Lake Victoria
Present in the East Africa region for more than 20 years, AFD has been working with the cities bordering Lake Victoria to improve access to clean water and sanitations for the population. A long term...
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Türkiye: Protecting forests and the future
Protecting our forests is crucial for combating climate change, conserving biodiversity, and for human health and development. Since 2012, Turkish and French experts have contributed to the protect...
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Türkiye: forests adapted to current and future climate change
Increase in temperatures, increase in forest fires, disruption of precipitation… the effects of climate change on Turkish and French forests are strong. Supported by AFD, expert institutions from both...
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EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities 2017-2020 synthesis
4-million euro program to better understand inequalities in low and middle income countries, the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequality was funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for...
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Rwanda: an effective development model, rising to the challenge of its sustainability
Rwanda emerged from the 1994 genocide in a considerably weakened state. The country's strongman, Paul Kagame, came to power during this period of instability and gradual reconstruction. He became Pres...
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Jordan
AFD has been working in Jordan since 2006, primarily on issues related to climate change adaptation and social cohesion, through solidarity-based and sustainable investments. As key partners in the wa...
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Atlantic Ocean - 2020 Activity Report
Despite their diversity, the territories around the Atlantic Ocean share common issues that call for a regional approach to development. This can consist in encouraging dialogue among stakeholders, fi...
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Evaluation Summary - Pastoral Water Programme in Central Chad, Second Phase (Almy Al Afia 2)
In Chad, the pastoral water programme in central Chad, 2nd phase - Almy Al Afia 2 (CTD1125), was evaluated in 2020. The main objective of the programme was to secure the pastoral economy, strengthen s...
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The African Economy 2021
So far, Africa has thwarted the predominantly pessimistic forecasts regarding its capacity to withstand Covid-19. Beset with the presumption of fragility, the continent has nonetheless demonstrated it...
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Combining Social Cohesion and Resilience: The Experience of African Cities
Although today Africa has a low level of urbanisation, high demographic growth coupled with an ongoing rural exodus is now driving the highest urban growth rate in the world. The number of city dwelle...
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North Africa - 2021-2025 Regional Strategy
Set up in September 2019, the North Africa Regional Office covers five countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. This strategy aims to position AFD Group’s action as a support for buildin...
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