Research Conversations: Interactive Webinars on Sustainable Development

On average, two Research Conversations webinars are organized each month. Below you will find a schedule of upcoming dates as well as links for signing up for each webinar on Livestorm.

• Restoring wetlands in Uganda: an integrated approach for sustainable solutions - September, 18th, 2024 from 11.00am to 12.30pm
  
  Intervenants :
  Maxime PETROSINO, ECOPRONATproject manager, AFD
  Yong JIANG, project coordinator, Associate Professor, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
  Frank KANSIIME, local lead partner, Professor, Makerere University
  Anne VAN DAM, Project co-leader, Associate Professor, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
  Jimmy MUHEEBWA, Project partner, Nature Uganda
  Bernard ARINAITW, Key stakeholder, Ministry of Water and Environment
  Dina TUMWREBAZE, key stakeholder, Ntungamo District Government
  Jacinta NALWOGA, Key stakeholder, UNDP/Green Climate Fund
  Raphaël BILLÉ, Programme Director and Deputy Director General, Tour du Valat
   
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Since foresight and understanding mean acting in a more effective manner, we carry out applied research at AFD. Our goal? To provide support to developing countries in their economic, ecological and social transition.

Bringing together academics from developing and developed countries, this research is carried out by multidisciplinary teams: specialists in economics, environmental sciences, sociology, demographics, anthropology and political science.

Beyond knowledge production, it is also essential that we share it, speed up its diffusion and debate about it to bring it alive and make it useful to development stakeholders. 

It's important to provide a regular discussion platform on topics concerning research, results, and public policy perspectives. Entitled "Research Conversations," these webinars are offered on Wednesdays, in French or English, depending on the speaker.

Climate change, preserving biodiversity and forging social ties, are just of a few of the topics to be covered.

Our last Research Conversation was about:

Stimulus effects of public employment programs - June, the 12th, 2024

Speakers:
Anda DAVID, Senior researcher, AFD
Ihsaan BASSIER, Researcher, UCT SALDRU
Maikel LIEUW-KIE-SONG, Senior Employment Intensive Specialist – ILO

You can watch the replays of previous Research Conversations here:

• A strategic framework for Nature-Based solutions in urban area: Feedback from Addis Ababa and Kigali - May, the 22nd, 2024
  Speakers:
  Julien CALAS, Biodiversity expert, AFD
  Lisa BEYER, Urban Water Infrastructure Manager, WRI
  Alemakef TASSEW, Urban Development Project Specialist, WRI
  Marc MANYIFIKA, Lead, Urban Resilience for Africa, WRI
  Liku WORKALEMAHU, Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC), Addis Ababa University
  Jean-Pierre MUGABO, Team Leader, Rwanda Young Water Professionals
  Charles KARANGWA, Global Head, Nature-based Solution Management Hub, IUCN
  Watch the replay
   
• Innovation for strong sustainability trajectories - April, the 3rd, 2024
  Speakers:
  Antoine GODIN, Head of the GEMMES macroeconomic modeling unit, Agence Française de Développement
  Eric KEMP-BENEDICT, Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Associate Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds
  Emily GHOSH, Researcher on energy modelling & planning at the Equitable Transitions program, Stockholm Environment Institute
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• Coastal areas of the Gulf of Guinea faced with relative sea-level rise - November the 22nd, 2023
  Speakers:
  Marie-WOILLEZ, Climate Change Research officer, AFD
  Philip MINDERHOUD, Assistant professor in Land subsidence and coastal-deltaic systems, Wageningen University
  Pietro TEATINI, Associate Professor in Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, University of Padua
  Kwasi APPEANING ADDO, Professor in Coastal Processes, Director of the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies, College of Basic and Applied Science, University of Ghana
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• Balancing Conservation and Community Welfare: Enhancing the Management of Marine Protected Areas in Indonesia - July 12th 2023
  Speakers:
  Oskar Lecuyer, Research Officer at AFD
  Lia AMELIA, researcher, the SMERU Institute
  Muhammad SYUKRI, senior researcher, the SMERU Institute
  Julian CLIFTON, Senior Lecturer / Programme Leader, senior researcher, University of Lincoln
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• Nature-related risks in South Africa - March 14th 2023
  Speakers:
  Antoine GODIN, Head of the GEMMES macroeconomic modeling unit, Agence Française de Développement
  Julien CALAS, Biodiversity expert, AFD
  Paul HADJI LAZARO, Ecological Macroeconomist, Sorbone Paris-Nord University
  Yuval TECHECHIK, Technical Advisor and Director, Strategic Program and Sustainable Finance, Department of Environmental Affairs
  Alex MARSH, Policy Advisor, South Africa National Biodiversity Institute
  Julie CLARKE, Environmental Analyst, Development Bank of South Africa
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• Middle Classes : A socioeconomic exploration of Ghana and Argentina - March 7th 2023
  Speakers:
  Anda DAVID, Senior researcher, AFD
  Felipe KORREALES, Research Officer, AFD
  Danielle RESNICK, Researcher, IFRPI & Brookings Institution
  Matthieu CLEMENT, Researcher, BSE - U. Bordeaux
  Eric ROUGIER, Researcher, BSE - U. Bordeaux
  Stephen AFRANIE, Researcher, ISSER - U. Ghana
  Robert DARKO, Researcher, ISSER - U. Ghana
  Gabriel KESSLER, Research, Conicet – U. Nacional de La Plata
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• Green transition in developing countries - challenges and opportunities - April, the 5th 2023
  Speakers:
  Gaëlle LE TREUT, Research Officer, AFD
  Camila GRAMKOW, Economic Affairs Officer, ECLAC
  Gabriel PORCILE, Economic Affairs Officer, ECLAC
  Igor PAUNOVIC, Chief of Economic and Environmental Affairs, UNCTAD
  Guilherme MAGACHO, Senior Economist, AFD
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• Colombia: Implementing structural reforms to address the great challenge of inequality - March, the 15th 2023
  Speakers:
  Felipe KORREALES, Research Officer, AFD
  Jairo NÚÑEZ, Researcher, Fedesarrollo
  Lamine SOW, Director for Colombia, AFD
  Daniel OSORIO, General Directorate of Macroeconomic Policy, Ministry of Finance
  Laura CASTILLO - UNDP economist 
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• Raising the Bar of Sustainable Finance: Cooperation Between Multi and National Banks - March, the 8th 2023
  Speakers:
  Régis MARODON, Special Advisor Sustainable Finance, AFD
  Thomas MAROIS, Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London
  Elif TIMUR, Head of the Office of Evaluation, CEB
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• Climate change and environmental pressures in vietnam - December, 14th, 2022
  Speakers:
  Marie-Noëlle WOILLEZ, Climate Change Research officer, AFD
  Thanh NGO-DUC, Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi
  Guilherme MAGACHO, Senior Economist, AFD
  Nicolas GRATIOT, Research Director IRD, Deputy Director IGE
  Clara JULLIEN, PhD student in urban studies and geography, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  Thi Thu Ha NGUYEN, Macroeconomic modeler - PhD student in Economics LASTA, University of Rouen Normandy
  Quang Chi TRUONG, Researcher, Can Tho University
  Marc GOICHOT, Lead Freshwater WWF Asia Pacific
  Quang KHAI HA, Lecturer, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
  Thuy LE TOAN, Leader of the Biomass group at CESBIO
  Hoang VO, Post-doctoral researcher at Wageningen University
  Hervé CONAN, country director, AFD Vietnam
  Sepehr ESLAMI, chercheur senior, DELTARES
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• Inequalities and environmental changes in the Mekong region - July, 6th, 2022
  Speakers:
  Hélène DJOUFELKIT, Director of the Economic Diagnostics and Public Policy Department
  Alexis DROGOUL, Director of Research in Computer Science, IRD
  Etienne ESPAGNE, Senior Economist, AFD
  Linh HUYNH THI PHUONG, Social Scientist, IRD
  Stéphane LAGRÉE, Social Scientist, IRD
  Jean-Pierre MARCELLI, Director of Operations, AFD
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• Can we talk of a Just Transition in South Africa ? - May 18th, 2022
  Speakers:
  Wendy ANNECKE, Independent researcher in social sciences
  Anda DAVID, Senior researcher, AFD
  Antoine GODIN, Senior researcher, AFD
  Nthabi MOHLAKOANA, Researcher, Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST), Stellenbosch University
  Britta RENNKAMP, Researcher, African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) University of Cape Town
  Peta WOLPE, Climate change practitioner
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• Strong environmental sustainability and international commitments: setting the right targets to preserve ecosystems - April 27th, 2022
  Speakers:
  Pr Paul Ekins, OBE, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London
  Eric Tromeur, Deputy Head of the Biodiversity and Resources Office, CGDD, Ministry of Ecological Transition
  Oskar Lecuyer, Research Officer at AFD
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• Digital labour platforms: What challenges and opportunities for Argentina? - March 15th, 2022
  Speakers:
  Cecilia POGGI, Economist, Social Protection Research Officer, AFD
  Francisca PEREYRA, Sociologist, Adjoint Professor, Universidad Nacional general Sarmiento (UNGS)
  Sonia FILIPETTO, Economist, Researcher, UNGS
  Lorena POBLETE, Sociologist, Full Professor, CONICET-IDAES/Universidad Nacional de San Martín
  Ariela MICHA, Economist, Researcher, CONICET-UNGS
  Martín TROMBETTA, Economist, CONICET-UNGS
  Uma RANI, Senior Economist, Research Department, International Labour Organization (ILO)
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• Energy Transition Metals’ extraction and Sustainable development goals (SDG) - December 8th, 2021
  Speakers:
  Etienne ESPAGNE, Senior Economist, AFD
  Hugo LAPEYRONIE,Research officer and PhD student in economics, AFD
  Rémi BAZILLIER, University Professor - Deputy Director of the Sorbonne School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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• Low-carbon transition: What macroeconomic vulnerabilities for developing countries? - November 24th, 2021
  Speakers:
  Antoine GODIN,Head of the GEMMES macroeconomic modeling unit, Agence Française de Développement
  Guilherme MAGACHO,Economist, Agence Française de Développement
  Sebastian VALDECANTOS,Aalborg University as Assistant Professor
  Mariana DEHEZA,Climate Finance Expert, Agence Française de Développement
  Cécile VALADIER,Deputy director, Economic Diagnostic and Public Policy Department, AFD
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• Linking social protection and the environment: Perspectives in Southeast Asia - November 16th, 2021
  Speakers:
  Etienne Espagne, Senior Economist, AFD
  Anda David, Senior Economist, AFD
  Pascale Turquet, Assistant professor in economics, LiRIS, Université Rennes 2
  Phuong Linh Thi Huynh, Doctor of Philosophy, Institute of Research for Development - IRD, Office in Hanoi
  Dr Venkatachalam Anbumozhi, Director, Research Strategy and Innovations ERIA
  Garima Bhalla, Economist and social protection specialist at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  Federico Spano, Social Protection and Resilience Officer, FAO
  Cecilia Costella, Independent Consultant, University of Twente, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
  Anna McCord, Independent Consultant
  Marie-Christina Dankmeyer, Social Protection and Climate Change Specialist, Social Protection Department (SOCPRO), ILO
  Nuno Meira Simoes Da Cunha, Senior Technical Specialist on Social Protection (Decent Work Technical Support Team for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific), ILO
  Language: English
  Watch the replay
   
• Socio-economic impacts of climate change in Vietnam - November 10th, 2021
  Speakers:
  Etienne Espagne, Senior Economist, AFD
  Marie-Noëlle Woillez, Climate scientist, AFD
  Manh-Hung Nguyen, Economist, INRAE/TSE
  Thi Thu Ha Nguyen, Economist, IRD/Université de Rouen
  Ngo-Duc Thanh, Climate scientist, USTH/IPCC
  Emmanuel Pannier, Anthropolog, USSH/IRD
  Language: English
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• Structural change and green growth in Colombia - October 6th, 2021
  Speakers:
  Gustavo Hernandez, Senior Researcher, Departamento Nacional de Planeacion
  Santiago Barbosa Naranjo, Researcher and advisor, Departamento Nacional de Planeacion
  Language: English
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• A “Silent Spring” for the Financial System? Exploring Biodiversity-Related Financial Risks - September 15th, 2021
  Speakers:
  Julien Calas, biodiversity expert, AFD
  Antoine Godin, Economist, AFD
  Etienne Espagne, Economist, AFD
  Julien Gauthey, Environmental economist, Office français de la biodiversité
  Romain Svartzman, Economist, Banque de France
  Mathilde Salin, Economist, ENS
  Paul Hadji-Lazaro, Economist, Paris 13 – CEPN
  Katie Leach, ShareAction
  Nepomuk Dunz, World Bank
  Gilles Kleitz, AFD
  Language : French
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• Just transition in South-East Asia - June 23rd, 2021
  Speakers:
  Alexandre BERTHE, Rennes University
  Pascale TURQUET, Rennes University
  Huynh Thi PHUONG LINH, IRD
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• Debt sustainability in Africa - June 9th, 2021, 2pm CET
  Speakers:
  Hélène Djoufelkit, Director of the Economic Assessment and Public Policy Department, AFD
  Benoît Jonveaux, Country risk economist, AFD
  Marin Ferry, Lecturer at Gustave Eiffel University and Associate Researcher at UMR LEDa (Université Paris-Dauphine, IRD, CNRS, DIAL)
  Anne-Laure Kiechel, Founder of Global Sovereign Advisory 
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• Gender - Women’s paths to success - May 19th, 2021
  Speakers:
  Prof. Jean François Kobiane, Professor of demographics at the Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP), Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  Dr. Bilampoa Gnoumou, Lecturer in Demographics, ISSP/Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
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• Macroeconomic impact of typhoons on Vietnam through satellite imagery - May 5th, 2021
  Speakers:
  Boi-Yen Ha, Research Assistant, Paris School of Economics
  Kenneth Houngbedji, Researcher, IRD
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• Taking joint action on water territories - March 10th, 2021
  Speakers:
  Juan Edson Quispe Cabrera, Urban planner, Universidad Privada Boliviana
  Jeanne Perrier, Doctor in Political Science, independent consultant, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3
  Watch the replay
   
• Inequalities and Environmental changes in the Mekong region: A review - February 24th, 2021
  Contributor:
  Phuong Linh Huynh Thi, Socioanthropologist, IRD
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• Youth & sports in the Maghreb and the Middle East - January 20th, 2021
  Speakers:
  Roman Stadnicki, Lecturer at the Université de Tours, UMR CITERES
  Myriam Catusse, Research fellow, CNRS, IREMAM Research Center
  Raphaël Le Magoariec, PhD researcher, Université de Tours, UMR CITERES
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• How to finance life on Earth: a high-level discussion with experts in biodiversity finance - January 13th, 2021
  Speakers:
  Bérangère Abba, Secretary of State under the Minister of Ecological Transition, in charge of biodiversity
  John Tobin, Professor, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and lead editor of the LBIN
  Andrew Mitchell, Founder and principal advisor of Natural Capital Finance Alliance & Global Canopy, and editor of the “Little Book” series
  Daniela Torres, Lead Expert at PNUD-BIOFIN for Mexico
  Marisa Drew, Head of Sustainable Development and Worldwide Manager for Sustainability Strategy, Consulting and Finance in Sustainable Development, Crédit Suisse
  Fiona Stewart, Lead Specialist in Insurance and Pensions, World Bank group
  Gilles Kleitz, Director of the Natural Ecological Transition and Natural Resource Management Department, AFD
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• Impacts of the 2002 crisis on inequality in Côte d'Ivoire - January 6th, 2021
  Speakers:
  François Bédia a.k.a., Professor, University of Bouaké
  Linda Zanfini, Research fellow, AFD
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• Multidimensional Inequality in Vietnam - December 15th, 2020
  Speakers:
  Vu Thi Quynh Hoa, Head of the campaign and advocacy at Oxfam Vietnam
  Doctor Phung Duc Tung, Director of the Mekong Development Research Institute
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• 5 years after COP 21, a research perspective - December 9th, 2020
  Speakers:
  Hélène Djoufelkit, AFD
  Etienne Espagne, AFD
  Eloi Laurent, Sciences-Po, France
  Rogerio Studart, World Resources Institute, USA
  Adam Tooze, Columbia University, USA
  Harald Winkler, Cape Town University, South Africa
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There is also a dedicated playlist of Research Conversations webinars on AFD’s YouTube channel.