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Ethiopia
Ethiopia, a flagship country in the Horn of Africa, holds a unique position, both for its rich history and its strategic geographic location at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Thi...
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Digital Energy Challenge 2025: Five projects recognized in Dakar
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) announced the five winners of the 2025 Digital Energy Challenge during an event held in Dakar, which brought together more than 100 energy players from across A...
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Developing Historical Gridded Climate Datasets for Vietnam Using Reanalysis Data and Station Observations Sinc...
Accurate and high-resolution gridded climate data are crucial for scientific applications, yet such data have long faced limitations due to sparse and uneven station networks. In this study, we addres...
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The Climate Archives of Indochina - And their contribution in understanding climate change in Vietnam and Sout...
This article presents a new historical climate database called Climate data rescue of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. It covers the period from 1867 to 1973. The oldest data were produced by military ho...
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BASATINE - Bolstering Agriculture Systems’ Ability To Invest, Nourish and Employ
The severe financial and economic crisis in Lebanon hit hard the agricultural sector and farmers are struggling to preserve their livelihood and productivity due to their heavy dependency on imported...
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Capacity Building against Exclusion, Violence and Addictions
The ReCEVAL project affirms the continuity of the first stage supported by AFD since 2019 to improve access to mental health services to people living in Lebanon, where mental health deterioration is...
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PERMA 2 : Promoting Economic Revival for Microbusiness and Agriculture
The project supports the development of rural microfinance and small enterprises as a sustainable way to revive the agricultural economy in Ninewa and Salah-al-Din, with complementary support to innov...
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Improving access to sanitation for host communities and refugees in Ramtha and Sahel Houran
The Hashemite Kingdom is facing a critical situation: according to the Jordanian authorities, more than one million Syrian people have fled to Jordan since 2012, a large number of them in the northern...
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Supporting the Lebanese Public Education System
The French Republic is committed to supporting the Lebanese public education system through the Natafaal project (meaning "to engage" in Arabic). This project, designed in partnership with the Ministr...
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Minka Sahel Initiative
The security, humanitarian, and sociopolitical situation in the Sahel has continued to deteriorate since the 2012 crisis in Mali, with a significant increase in conflict hotspots. More than one millio...
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Minka CAR Initiative
The Central African Republic (CAR) is experiencing a situation of chronic conflict, with militant activity by armed groups spreading over a large swath of the country, including violent attacks agains...
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Minka Middle East Initiative
The wars in Syria and Iraq have driven more than 15 million people to flee their homes and have caused the largest population displacement in the Middle East since World War II. The top host countries...
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Minka Peace and Resilience Fund - 2019 Activity Report
As crises become longer and more complex, AFD Group has made a key commitment to sustainable peace, to the climate and to social cohesion. This commitment is part of France’s “Prevention, Resilience a...
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Minka Peace and Resilience Fund - 2020 Activity Report
As crises become longer and more complex, AFD Group has made a key commitment to sustainable peace, the climate and social cohesion. This commitment is part of France’s “Prevention, Resilience and Sus...
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Minka, France’s development tool to take action before/during/after a crisis
Crises must be tackled urgently to mitigate their effects and over time to deal with them in depth. The Covid-19 pandemic is an example. It is a reminder of the urgent need to take full account of lon...
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"WATAD" project in Lebanon
Lebanon is struggling to ensure employment and to strengthen social cohesion in its most vulnerable neighborhoods. The WATAD project aims to improve the socio-economic conditions of the inhabitants of...
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"Haretna": Community Recovery in Lebanon’s Cities
Implemented by a consortium of NGOs led by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), this project will support local development and improve the residents living conditions of three vulnerable urban neighb...
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Lebanon: PARAMED - Strengthening Public Health Workers
Training project for health workers in public hospitals and primary health care centers in Lebanon in order to improve the quality of care provided by the public health system.
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Minka Lake Chad Initiative
The violence linked to the Boko Haram crisis has had an impact far beyond the birthplace of the movement in northeast Nigeria, its combat zones and the areas to which its fighters have withdrawn. The...
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Access to healthcare and protection: Tools to prevent tensions in Lebanon (phase 2)
The Lebanese association Amel is working on reducing tensions in Lebanon by improving access to health and protection for vulnerable people, in partnership with International Alert and Samusocial Inte...
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