The pilot urban management program recently launched on 7 May is particularly important for the country whose population will double by 2040. It aims to promote enhanced urban governance and make local public investments to improve living conditions for residents.

Improved patient integration, closer to families, with a lower cost for the local authority… Réunion’s public mental health institute is creating new community reception areas for outpatients in the municipalities of Bras Panon, Sainte-Suzanne and Saint-André.

Energy management, biodiversity preservation and low-carbon urban infrastructure development, the new MOU signed between the Indian Ministry of Finance and AFD provides for the extension of its mandate and a tripling of AFD's funding approvals.

The boom in Chinese investments in Africa comes with concerns over their ecological impacts in host countries.
A predominant view is that the low level of environmental and social requirements gives Chinese companies a comparative advantage to access Africa’s natural resources over their Western competitors, who benefit from their long-standing establishment and their advanced technologies. However, the principles and implementation of environmental management by Chinese companies remain largely unknown.

Whether we consider climate change, transmissible diseases, financial crises or the protection of biodiversity, the analysis of global issues suffers from deeply ingrained disciplinary boundaries. However, multi-disciplinary research, which makes a fresh analysis of the interactions between socio-economic and political actors,may reveal global governance schemes yet to be imagined that would supplement national sovereignty.

 

In this interview with AFD in May 2012, Ibrahima Coulibaly, President of Mali’s National Coordination of Farmers’ organizations (CNOP-Mali) and Vice President of ROPPA (Network of Farmers’ and Producers’ Organizations of West Africa), talks about the threat that large-scale land grabbing poses to family farming in Africa.

Central American countries have significant potential for renewable energy development. In a context of sharp growth in electricity demand, Proparco is participating in financing a large-scale wind project in Nicaragua.
 

From the Balearics to the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean has over ten thousand small islands and islets which are real biodiversity treasure houses. Yet these islands are vulnerable… A meeting to learn more about their history, the threats to which they are exposed and the protection activities financed by the French GEF and the French Coastal Conservation Authority.