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AFD and Thailand
Thailand, Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy, is an emerging country. But it faces a three-fold challenge: the ageing of its population, the maintenance of competitiveness and environmental...
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Waste Processing with Irène Salenson
Global waste is growing exponentially. This is partially due to population growth, but also to changing consumption patterns… In developing countries, local authorities are struggling to cope because...
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Hydromet Project: Annex 6 - Environmental and Social Management Framework
This document presents the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) of the project titled “Building Regional Resilience through Strengthened Meteorological, Hydrological and Climate Servic...
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Cambodia: The magical ears of Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh Water Supply authority (PPWSA), in Cambodia, is one of the most efficient in the world, with only 8% water loss, which allows it to keep prices very low. These results are only possible tha...
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Data opportunities and challenges for calculating a global Strong Environmental Sustainability (SES) index
The Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework sets the basis to measure countries’ environmental sustainability performance, based on standards meant to represent the situation at which natur...
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Health and social protection - 2019 Activity report
Health and social protection are central to sustainable development. These sectors are fundamental pillars for the development of human capital. The lack of access to health care, its poor quality and...
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Dona Mena and sustainable cashew farming in Mozambique
Dona Mena is a cashew producer in the Gilé reserve in Mozambique. AFD is funding a project there which aims to contribute to strengthening the cashew nut sector in order to allow a sustainable improve...
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Cultural and Creative Industries - 2018-2019 Activity Report
In 2005, the General Conference of UNESCO adopted the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. In November 2016, the French Interministerial Committee for I...
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Energy - 2019 Activity Report
In 2019, AFD Group’s financing for energy transition reached €2.8 billion, including some €1 billion for the private sector. This accounts for 20% of Group allocations, representing an increase of...
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A research facility to better understand inequalities
The program is financed with €4 million from the European Commission and coordinated by AFD, which is leading various studies with academic and institutional partners in a number of developing, emergi...
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AFD & Food For Cities
In a constantly urbanizing world, city governments have come to play a crucial role in urban food policies. From among the challenges facing cities, ensuring food security for their residents is vital...
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Does family size hinder family living standards? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Madagascar
In this paper we try to identify the causal impact of fertility on household welfare in Madagascar using gender of the two first-born children as a source of exogenous variation. The issue of the link...
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Commons: Towards a New Narrative on Development Policies and Practices?
Narratives feed into development policies. They are the outcome of complex interactions between political and economic contexts as well as scientific findings and practices. Narratives are a way to bu...
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Education and migration: insights for policymakers
Connections between migration and education are numerous, both at the macro and micro level. Recognizing this implies that educational policy as well as migration policy may generate spill-over effect...
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AFD and Myanmar
A large, predominantly rural territory rich in natural resources, Myanmar (formerly Burma) enjoys a strategic geographical position between the Indian subcontinent, China and Southeast Asia. Since 201...
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AFD and Vietnam
AFD supports in Vietnam the implementation of the Paris Agreement around the area of energy transition, resilience of cities and territories, and youth. It offers a wide range of financial instruments...
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Using geographical indications as a development tool
In comparing the contrasting situations of the “Penja pepper” and “Oku white honey” supply chains after their registration as geographical indications (GI) in Cameroon, this technical paper identifies...
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DNDi, a Distinctive Illustration of Commons in the Area of Public Health
Following many years of structural adjustment programmes, the last decades of the 20th century saw drastic reductions in the public health resources of developing countries. The failures of the libera...
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Economic and political stakes of the middle income group expansion in Vietnam
Middle class expansion in formerly poor countries has become the focus point of business groups, development banks and national governments over the latter decade. By naturalizing an income group into...
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Development Practices: Building New Equilibriums within the Commons-State-Market System
For ten years (1998 – 2008), the Cambodian government rehabilitated the Prey Nup polders, a 90 km of earth dikes system protecting 10,500 hectares of rice paddies from seawater intrusion. This French...
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