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Three Oceans

To increase regional integration in France’s overseas territories and offer a global solution to cross-border issues, AFD adopted the Three Oceans strategy in 2019. This approach groups together overs...

Financing without doing harm: for virtuous mechanisms to support african social science research

African research has scarcely begun to emerge at international level: Africa’s overall share in global publications stands at about 3.5%, and the social sciences represent a tiny fraction of this figu...

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Sea level rise: observations, projections and uncertainty

Sea level rise due to climate change is an important risk factor for growing populations living in coastal areas. This issue reports on the observations, projections for the 21st century and major unc...

Climate change in Viet Nam, Impacts and adaptation

On the occasion of COP26, this report is proposing an assessment of the socio-economic impacts of climate change in Viet Nam by 2050, based on the intermediary results of the GEMMES Viet Nam research...

The future for the Mekong Delta with Marie-Noëlle Woillez

Marie-Noëlle Woillez holds a Ph.D. in Climate Modeling and conducts research on the impacts of climate change in AFD’s countries of operation. During this interview, Marie-Noëlle Woillez evokes the f...

A scoping review of the vulnerability of Nigeria's coastland to sea-level rise and the contribution of land su...

Nigeria’s low-lying coastal region, with its various economic activities, is vulnerable to global sea-level rise triggered by climate change. In some areas, this threat can be amplified by land subsid...

Vulnerability of Ghana’s Coast to Relative Sea-level Rise: A Scoping Review

Coastal areas are regions of essential value that are home to a myriad of services. However, population growth and climate change along with their cascading impacts have had profound impacts on their...

Meeting the equity challenge in Burkina Faso: regional policies to reduce economic inequalities

In their design and formulation, policy documents are generally limited to the macro level (entire country); they set out regional differences without explicitly highlighting the intraregional mechani...

Improving access to education in Burkina Faso: a major condition for benefiting from the demographic dividend

The large share of children, teenagers, and young people within the Burkinabe population requires strong actions and considerable investments now to offer this segment of the population life skills (k...

The impact of the military-political crisis of 2002 on inequalities in Côte d’Ivoire

The military-political crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, sparked by an armed rebellion on September 19, 2002, increased inequalities in the CNW zone (Center, North, and West). However, even if they remained hi...

Where do social inequalities come from in Côte d’Ivoire?

The LAMPE study on the determinants of social inequalities in Côte d’Ivoire1 shows a persistence of inequalities between 2008 and 2015. In particular, inequalities in participation in the labor market...

Improving housing and access to sanitation in informal neighborhoods in Ouagadougou to reduce inequalities

The precarious housing conditions in informal settlements increase inequalities. Restructuring these neighborhoods by providing them with basic social services would be one of the solutions to improve...