Publications and media
Evaluation Summary - Budget support to the forestry sector in Turkey
In Turkey, the budget support to the forestry sector was subject to an evaluation in July 2018. The budget support was granted in the context of the opening of chapter 27 of the pre-accession negot...
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Evaluation Summary - Development of the Ninh Thuan irrigation system, Vietnam
In Vietnam, for the “Irrigation” sector, the development of the Ninh Thuan irrigation system was subject to an evaluation in July 2018. The province of Ninh Thuan, which suffers from extremely dry...
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Laos: Managing our bamboo forest for a better life
Houaphan is a mountainous province in northern Laos forested with a high diversity of bamboo species and non-timber forest products. These resources, if well managed and used, have a strong potential...
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Climate - 2017 Activity Report
The climate is today the identity marker of the AFD group. In 2018, this already strong orientation was reinforced by the adoption of a new climate strategy (2017-2022), which reflects AFD's ambition...
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Poinsettia Assembly and Selling Emotion: High Value Agricultural Exports in Ethiopia
We examine how investment in high-value agriculture can help to address the balance of payments constraint on growth and the wage employment challenge in Ethiopia while accelerating structural change....
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AFD and solar energy
Levier essentiel de la transition énergétique et de la lutte contre le changement climatique, les énergies renouvelables – l’énergie solaire en particulier – sont aussi de formidables vecteurs de déve...
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Panorama 2018 - AFD Group Annual Report
AFD is the leading actor in France’s development policy. We commit to projects that genuinely improve the everyday lives of people, both in developing and emerging countries and in the French overseas...
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AFD Group's Corporate Social Responsibility Policy 2018-2022
The future of the planet – a prerequisite for the survival of humankind – implies a shared responsibility, as expressed by States in New York in 2015 with the adoption of the Sustainable Development G...
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Waste, how much does it cost?
The French Development Agency (AFD), along with Le Mans University, the Gevalor Association, Urbananalyse, and ALBWaste, conducted the ORVA2D (Organisation for Waste Recycling in Developing Cities) re...
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The Challenges of Energy Transition in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Agence française de développement (AFD), Global Development Network (GDN), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), École française d’Extrême-O...
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India - 2017-2021 Strategy
With a total net commitment of almost EUR 1.5bn since the opening of AFD’s India agency in 2008 and annual commitments of around EUR 250m since 2013,27 activities in India represent, nearly a quarter...
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AFD and sport: a vehicle for social cohesion and equity
Sport is a valuable tool for helping achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It contributes to peace, education, gender equality and health and opens up new horizons for development actors, in part...
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Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa
Despite economic growth and improvements in many dimensions of welfare, poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa (Africa hereafter). Approximately two people in five li...
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Harnessing the commons to govern water as a flow
This paper examines the usefulness of recognizing the commons governing irrigation water. It harnesses the commons to understand the power interactions at play in transformations over local, national...
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The Gold Digger and the Machine: Evidence on the Distributive Effect of the Artisanal and Industrial Gold Rush...
We document the local impact of two alternative mining techniques: artisanal (labor intensive, managed in commons) and industrial (mechanized, privatized). Our identification strategy exploits two sou...
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Crisis and Development. The Lake Chad Region and Boko Haram
From 2009, insecurity linked to the insurgency of the Boko Haram group and its repression spreads from the heart of Nigerian Borno to the north-east of the country and then to the border areas of neig...
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Sahel Alliance: HAWA and AMADOU
Social assistance and climate resilience programme in Mauritania In Mauritania, a TEKAVOUL social protection system allows families to keep children in school. It is a support and a regular payment...
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Sahel Alliance: Ari
Preventing youth exclusion in the Diffa region - Niger Because of the insecurity in Niger, many young people like Ari have lost their jobs. To face this problem, we support a project of professiona...
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Sahel Alliance: Hassane
Support for justice and security in Niger (AJUSEN) In a difficult security context in Niger, it is essential to help the judicial system function effectively. That’s why with European Union, we sup...
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Sahel Alliance: Arafa
Inclusive economic and social recovery around Lake Chad (RESILAC) Like Arafa, 3 million people had to flee their homes because of the security crisis in the Lake Chad region. As part of the Sahel A...
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AFD and access to energy for all
Over a billion people live without access to electricity. Almost a third of humanity depends on biomass energy on a daily basis. Access to quality energy services while safeguarding the environment is...
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