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Socioeconomic and spatially-explicit assessment of Nature-related risks: the case of South Africa
This study introduces new methods for evaluating nature-related socioeconomic risks in the South African context, anchored on two main contributions. Firstly, it embarks on a multidimensional analysis...
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How is training helping address the energy crisis in Pakistan?
The Mangla Hydropower Training Institute (HPTI) is a unique institution in Pakistan, providing about 500 engineers hands-on, field training in the specific field of hydropower. AFD is supporting not o...
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AFD group and 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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Measuring social norms towards women and work in Tunisia. An assessment of the ‘opinion-matching’ method
The presence of patriarchal social norms and traditional gender roles is a potential explanation for persistent inequalities in labor market opportunities for women in the MENA region. We investigate...
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Evaluation Highlights: In Chad, a project to ensure food security in the capital
The Bahr Linia peri-urban area plays an essential role in the food security and food independence of Chad’s capital, N’Djamena. The Bahr Linia Hydro-agricultural Development Project (PAHA-BL), which s...
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AFD & KfW activities in the context of Loss and Damage - Position paper
First mentioned in 1991, Loss and Damage (L&D) has become the third pillar of the climate negotiations within a few years. In the absence of an agreed UNFCCC definition, a number of competing framings...
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Burundi : living with HIV
Around 2.9% of Burundi's population is HIV-positive, a figure that is probably underestimated. Through several projects, the AFD Group is supporting the activities of the National Association for the...
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Preventing hunger with agroecology in Burundi
Training in agroecology has enabled Burundian farmer Ndayisaba Marie Goreth and her family to be more food secure and to simply eat better. They’re not alone: more than 9,000 farmers, 52% of them wome...
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Burundi: raising awareness against violence from an early age
In Burundi, where primary schooling has been free since 2005, the NGO Play International uses sport to combat the causes of school drop-out (gender, disability and poverty). To reintegrate and keep ch...
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The Commons- Overview in Arabic
An overview in Arabic of The Commons- Drivers of Change and Opportunities for Africa also available in French and in Swahili (overview).
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Methods for Credible Evaluation of Programme Stimulus Effects in South Africa
In response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020-2021 the South African government instituted various economic relief and stimulus programmes. These included substantial increases to socia...
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Stimulus effects of a large public employment programme
We characterize the spending and factor income effects of a large public employment programme in South Africa. We match anonymized participant IDs with weekly individual-level sales data from one of t...
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Migrants, Markets, and Mayors
Research on migration and urban development in Africa has primarily focused on larger cities and rural-to-urban migration. However, 97 percent of Africa’s urban centers have fewer than 300,000 inhabit...
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The minerals essential to the energy and digital transitions: An opportunity for Africa?
With the acceleration of the energy and digital transitions, global demand for critical minerals has grown exponentially in recent years. Africa, with its extensive and still relatively unexploited re...
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Fiscal Incidence and Public Spending: Public Policy Scenarios for Colombia
In 2020, Colombia recorded the highest levels of inequality and poverty in the last decade. According to the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE, 2020), the monetary poverty rate re...
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Latin America: at the vanguard of sustainable development
As countries around the world try to cope with climate change and protect biodiversity, the search is on for new development models and practices. Some are emerging in Latin America, as we can see in...
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« GRANDES LIGNES »| EPISODE 10 : CLIMATE-FINANCIAL TRAP
« Grandes Lignes » is the podcast of Éditions Agence française de développement which deciphers in less than 20 minutes the major questions of research on sustainable development with AFD experts....
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MacroDev - Semestrial Panorama 2024 #1
Three decades ago, it was believed that the end of the (first) Cold War would herald the “end of history” and the advent of economic globalization dominated by multinational companies, relegating gove...
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In Mbarara, providing water by and for women
The districts of Mbarara and Isingiro in south-western Uganda are under permanent water stress. To remedy this situation, AFD and the European Union are financing a large-scale project to supply wate...
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Reducing inequality, a question of survival
In a world of limited planetary resources, the concentration of wealth is leading to growing division. Inequalities significantly hinder sustainable development. Since many different forms of inequal...
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