Publications and media
Zenata, Sport at the heart of the new city
In the heart of the new city of Zenata, the first ground of the partnership between AFD and the famous NBA (National Basketball Association) was born. Adorned with the colors of the Sustainable Develo...
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All Hands on Deck : Reducing Stunting through Multisectoral Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa
The prevalence of stunting in Sub-Saharan Africa has been declining significantly. Yet, because of high fertility rates, this is the only region in the world with a growing number of children under th...
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Evaluation Summary - Mid-term evaluation of the project “Training and Employability for Vulnerable Populations...
In Lebanon, for the education and vocational training sector, the project "Training and employability of vulnerable populations impacted by the Syrian crisis in Lebanon" was subject to a mid-term eval...
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Evaluation Summary - Mombasa Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project (Mombasa WaSSIP), Kenya
In Kenya, for the water and sanitation sector, the sovereign loan to support the Mombasa water and sanitation service improvement project was subject to an evaluation in 2019. At the project incept...
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Evaluation Summary - Health Sector Support Projects in Chad (PASST 1 and 2)
In Chad, for the health sector, two successive health sector support projects were evaluated in 2019. The methodological approach developed for this evaluation was "change" oriented, putting at the he...
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The Interplay between Women’s Earnings and the Income Distribution: A Cross-National Analysis of Latin America...
Since the 1980s, an inter-disciplinary literature drawing heavily from economics and sociology has addressed the interplay between women’s earnings and household income. We use data from the Luxembour...
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Market income inequality, left-wing political parties, and redistribution in Latin America
The paper uses household-level data from more than 200 household income surveys from 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries to explore the (revised) median voter hypothesis and the political determ...
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AFD in Laos - 25 Years “In Common”
Laos is a resource-rich country. But these resources are regularly threatened by various factors, such as pollution, overexploitation and tourism. In addition, the management of resources often crysta...
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Diverting Solid Waste
This work takes as its starting point the findings of local authorities in the global South: as and when they are required to shut down old disposal sites and invest in costly sanitary landfills, citi...
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Best Practice Guide – Security Plan
This guide aims to highlight the consideration of security issues and provides good practices for developing a dedicated plan. It is intended for all entities that are beneficiaries or potential be...
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Ghana: What Economic Challenges?
Ghana stands apart from other African economies thanks to its consolidated democratic achievements as well as the pace of its economic growth since the early 2000s. The start of oil production in the...
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Energy Transition - 2019-2022 Strategy
The Energy Transition (ET) is now underway in developing and developed countries alike. Driven mainly by technological advances, it presents an economic, social and environmental opportunity to achiev...
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Baking for a better future
The Boulangerie Française offers trainings in bakery jobs, which facilitates the integration of disadvantaged young people into the labour market and improves their living conditions. Meeting with May...
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Research, Innovation & Knowledge - 2019-2022 Strategy
Strengthening research efforts and promoting innovation are among the cross-cutting focus areas of the French development and international solidarity policy. Echoing this ambition, the AFD Group is s...
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The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa: Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptab...
Over the past two decades, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have grown their economies, lifted millions out of poverty, recovered from conflict, and greatly expanded access to education with a boo...
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Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Uptake, Reliability, and Complementary Factors for Economic Impact
Access to reliable electricity is the backbone of any modern economy. It is even more important with the digital revolution. If African nations want to see their economies transform, the issue of elec...
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Mobility and transport- Synthesis of the AFD Group sectoral intervention framework
The challenge in the sector: Contribute to the achievement of the SDGs while adhering to low-carbon and resilient development trajectories Mobility is determined by individual choices made by a mul...
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AFD and the energy transition in Vietnam
In line with Vietnam’s revised Power Development Plan, electricity production in 2030 will be four times the level of 2014. This revised plan emphasises the development of renewable energies (ENR), wh...
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AFD and Cambodia
The French Development Agency or Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has been present in Cambodia since 1993. The Agency supports Cambodia in territorial, ecological and social transitions while f...
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AFD and the Environment in Cambodia
Despite its low contribution to global warming, Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world, which directly threatens the country’s prodigious biodiversity. AFD is...
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AFD and the Energy in Cambodia
In terms of energy, Cambodia faces major challenges: more than 20 years after the end of the social unrest that ravaged the country, it has yet to rebuild, develop and diversify its energy production,...
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