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Transport and Mobility - 2020 Activity Report
The mobility of people and goods is a prerequisite for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indeed, it plays a fundamental role in providing people with access to employment an...
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Debt sustainability in Africa: state of play and future challenges
Almost fifteen years after the last debt relief initiatives were implemented by the international community, some African countries have either recently defaulted on their public debt, subscribed to t...
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Preserving marine biodiversity in West Papua, Indonesia
The Bird's Head Seascape is a global marine biodiversity hotspot located in West Papua, Indonesia. To preserve its richness while ensuring sustainable livelihoods for communities, the Blue Action Fund...
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Thomas Mélonio : “we believe in the role that science and research play in development”
Supporting national research activities and institutions and structuring networks of researchers in developing countries is a recent focus of AFD's activities and is fully in line with its strategy. T...
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AFD Group 2020 Results: The Essentials
With the boost in France’s development policy and the mobilization of French stakeholders and other public development banks, AFD Group has been able to mount a rapid response to the crisis caused by...
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AFD Group Economic and Financial Transition Strategy
The Economic and Financial Transition Strategy is one of AFD’s 6 transitions. Its objective: support the transformation of economies to build economic, social and environmental balances sustainable ov...
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AFD Group Economic and Financial Transition
Let’s change horizon, let’s transform the economy. This is the goal of the economic and financial transition. Its guiding principle: build a longer-term vision of the economy to ensure that its object...
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Urban Development and Support for Local Authorities - 2020 Activity Report
AFD provides cities with support for taking up the challenges of urban growth, social and territorial inequalities and territories’ vulnerability. It promotes sustainable cities as a process of design...
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Digital Transition - 2021-2025 Strategy
Faced with geopolitical threats in which digital technology is a vector, this AFD Group strategy bears a specifically French and European signature: that of digital commons at the service of citizens...
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Sahel - 2020 Activity Report
The Greater Sahel region was once a prosperous region in Africa. The region is clearly defined by its geography and climate. It also has the lowest GDP per capita of all the six African regions identi...
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Estimating the distributional incidence of healthcare spending on maternal health services in Sub-Saharan Afri...
Improving access to maternal health services is a critical policy concern, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where maternal mortality rates remain very high, particularly so among the poorest seg...
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Renewing Energy Access Approaches
When it comes to energy access projects (electrificationand thermal energy), approaches introducing a commons perspective can be distinguished by the fact that users play anactive role. This role is c...
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Impact Evaluation Study of Forest Management Systems on the Forest Cover in the Congo Basin
Given the extent of production forests, which is much larger than protected areas, sustainable logging, through timber concessions with forest management plans, can be a valuable tool for forest conse...
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The challenges of the demographic dividend for African countries
The implementation of population related public policies in Africa will only have the anticipated effects if a certain number of issues are tackled: harmful traditional practices, the stereotypes rega...
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Multimodal transport hubs – Good practice guidelines
Mobility actors have now fully incorporated the concept of multimodal transport hubs (MTH) into their vocabulary. The notion refers to a building and an urban space, and translates into different real...
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Public debt in developping countries with Maxime Terrieux
Since the late 1990s, several developing countries have benefited from public debt relief. Yet by early 2020, half of the poor countries had reached a high risk or even already a situation of public d...
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Encouraging green finance: AFD's offer to public banks
AFD is the first agency to be 100% in line with the Paris Agreement and to make strong commitments on climate financing by supporting the transformation of financial actors' practices and promoting su...
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Support to civil society organizations - 2019 Activity report
AFD has been supporting the initiatives of French civil society organizations (CSOs) and their partners in the Global South for 10 years, with financing delegated by the Ministry for Europe and Foreig...
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Who bears the burden of climate variability? A comparative analysis of the impact of weather conditions on ine...
Is climate variability regressive? One argument could be as follows: People living in areas with high risk of climate hazards usually correspond to the most disadvantaged populations. Due to existing...
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Exploring the dynamics of micro- level consumption inequality in Ghana
Despite the country’s recent impressive growth record, inequality remains a pressing concern in Ghana as the benefits of higher incomes are not being evenly distributed. Existing micro-level studies o...
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