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For Thierry Paulais, an AFD researcher, the conditions are right for better city development. This is essential to enhance economic effectiveness and improve living conditions for city dwellers. However, he says that this will only come about if there is a change of scale and if we rely on African-led financing.

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Africa's Cities

"Les mentalités doivent changer"

Dans le débat sur les liens entre démographie et développement, J.P. Guengant, chercheur et auteur de Comment bénéficier du dividende démographique ?, répond à nos questions. Selon lui, l'explosion démographique que connaît l'Afrique, et inédite, pourrait grêver lourdement ses perspectives de développement.

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Explosion démographique

"China is a real high-speed laboratory in the fight against climate change"

In China, AFD gives priority to innovative projects that we will be able to reproduce in other countries, particularly in Africa. An interview with Sandrine Boucher, Director of AFD’s Beijing agency.

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China: Objective Climate

Designing cities in Latin America

Aerial tramway in Medellin, Bus Rapid Transit system in Curitiba... The continent is at the cutting edge of innovation in urban mobility. Two AFD experts explain how the Latin American approach has revolutionized the way urban mobility is designed and how AFD is supporting this revolution.

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Designing cities

Nationwide Photography Tour

Join AFD in celebrating its 70th anniversary!
AFD is launching a nationwide photography tour
in association with Magnum Photos,
and wants you to attend this special event.

Find out the dates on our website

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Photo Tour 70 Years

L’AFD se développe sur le net !

Venez explorer les nouvelles rubriques du site objectif-developpement.fr, un site ludique pour découvrir le développement en images.
Naviguez sur la frise interactive des 70 ans, visionnez nos défis en vidéo, poser vos questions, commentez les posts de notre blog… et bien sur, retrouvez les webdocs et l'expo par Magnum photo.

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Objectif developpement

Objectif développement

“The abolition of hunger is not utopian.”

Ismail Serageldin, Professor at the Collège de France, and Dov Zerah are marking the G20 Agriculture meeting by launching an appeal to abolish world hunger “now”. At the same time, two AFD experts have been reviewing AFD’s action for food security.

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securité alimentaire

World hunger

Reconciling development and environmental protection

How does AFD work to protect the environment? How does it manage the impacts the projects it finances have on the environment? Anticipating the conference “Reconciling poverty eradication and quality of the environment”, Tiphaine Leménager, an AFD expert, answers our questions. Watch the video interview (in French)

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Development and environment

Development and environment

Bogotá’s historic city center is closed to cars on Sundays

Guiding Urban Transformation in Emerging Countries

AFD gives a voice to those who, through their commitments as professionals, politicians, members of associations and citizens, guide transformation in developing and emerging cities and come up with responses to the expectations of the people who live in them.

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Developing Cities

NGOs, a core partnership for French aid

In 2010, over sixty NGO projects were cofinanced by AFD. Catherine Bonnaud, Head of Partnerships with NGOs, answers our questions and makes a review of AFD’s NGO activity.

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Partnership with NGOs

The partnership with civil
societies for development

studied through two
determinants of development :
food sovereignty and peace.
Find out more in the last issue
of Savoirs communs,
realized with the CCFD.

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Savoirs Communs

Savoirs communs

"Getting to zero: zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths"

AFD is marking 23^rd World AIDS Day by reiterating its commitment to fight against mother-to-child HIV transmission.

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World AIDS Day

New focus on health

“For every dollar spent on family planning, four dollars are saved in the water, sanitation, education and health sectors…”.

Two AFD experts explain why health is an essential lever for development.

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Health & AFD

Haiti: "The projects are taking shape. They require all our energy"

Since the earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, AFD has pledged more than €100M for the reconstruction of the country, while pursuing projects that are already active. Priority has been given to rebuilding the Haitian State and to education, health and agriculture.
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2 years on from the earthquake

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News

AFD-EUDN 2012 Conference: Evaluation and its discontents, do we learn from experience in development? March 26th 2012, Paris

01/02/2012

Our societies’ demand for the evaluation of economic policies has been evolving alongside a growing desire for transparency and accountability of decision-makers . This is within a context where persistent doubts exist regarding the efficiency ...
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AFD/Objectif développement photo competition: first edition a great success!

01/02/2012

AFD has marked its 70th anniversary and the “Objectif Développement” exhibition by launching an online photo competition open to all photo enthusiasts. The prizes were awarded by a jury of professionals from the photography industry and media. ...
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Concrete results in sustainable coral reef management

31/01/2012

The final report of the 2011 capitalization on the program for the protection and sustainable management of coral reefs in the Pacific (CRISP) has been published. This review reports on the impressive number of extremely concrete results in the field, ...
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Psychosocial support for displaced persons in Eastern Chad

12/01/2012

This is a first for AFD: in Eastern Chad, it has added a psychosocial support program to projects implemented in conflict or post-conflict areas. This support is being provided in a hundred villages or so and in around forty nomad camps. It has reached ...
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CALL FOR PAPERS! - Local Politics, Global Impacts: Steps to a Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Scales

30/12/2011

The University of Chicago and the French Development Agency are pleased to announce a one and one half day conference to be held in Paris on 14th and 15th June 2012. We are calling for paper proposals to be submitted, in English, before 15th February ...
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Renforcer la coopération économique entre les pays de l’océan Indien

28/12/2011

L’AFD et la Commission de l’océan Indien (COI) ont signé, le 13 décembre 2011, une convention de financement de 200 000 euros qui servira à alimenter un fonds d’études et à dynamiser la coopération économique et commerciale entre les ...
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Development in motion

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Publications News

Les réformes de l’aide au développement en perspective de la nouvelle gestion publique

06/02/2012

The purpose of this article is to analyze foreign aid reforms with the analytical grid of New Public Management. Three principles are particularly discussed: the segmentation of development policies implementation, the growing concern for accountability, ...
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02/02/2012
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Quelle(s) classe(s) moyenne(s) en Afrique ?

09/01/2012

Dominique Darbon, Professeur, Institut d’études politiques de Bordeaux Comi Toulabor, directeur de recherches, LAM, Bordeaux This document studies the concept of middle class in Sub-Saharan Africa, based on the existing litterature, ...
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02/01/2012
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