Publications and media
Sahel - 2019 Activity Report
As a priority area for French development policy, the Sahel is faced with a diverse array of security, climate, economic, social and political challenges. The countries in the region (Burkina Faso, Ca...
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Rethinking International Funding of African Research
African research is very unevenly distributed across the African continent and still has a weak presence within global scientific research as a whole, particularly when it comes to the social sciences...
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Open Data for Resilient Agriculture - Hackathon Accra 2019
AFD supports open data in order to share knowledge enriched by the multitude of contributors and to create digital commons that benefit everyone. The Internet and browsers constitute the most advanced...
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Urban fabric initiative: a laboratory for citizen participation
The urban fabric initiative brings out and supports small or temporary micro-projects, carried by the inhabitants and quickly implemented, on the sites of urban projects financed in parallel by the Ag...
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Evaluation Summary - Common Health Fund (FCS), Niger
In order to strengthen aid effectiveness, a multi-donor fund, the Common Health Fund (CHF), was created on the initiative of AFD and the World Bank in 2006, joined by other technical and financial par...
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Sanitation for all in Djibouti
The city of Djibouti is home to 75 % of the total population of the eponymous country. Increasing urbanization has led to the explosion of the Balbala district. The result is a disorganized urban fab...
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Seed fund for African digital start-ups
It’s a big boost for small businesses and entrepreneurs. To help support and finance African start-ups, AFD is launching a new €15 million seed fund. It’s part of a growing commitment to expanding the...
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Access to electricity in Sahel doubled by 2022 - Synthesis of the conference
The “Energy Access in the G5 Sahel Countries” Conference is the first edition of an annual meeting organized by the Energy Group of the Sahel Alliance, which aimed at strengthening the coordination of...
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Inequality trends in South Africa: A multidimensional diagnostic of inequality
This report on inequality trends in South Africa is a joint publication produced by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in partnership with the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SAL...
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Minka Lake Chad Initiative
The violence linked to the Boko Haram crisis has had an impact far beyond the birthplace of the movement in northeast Nigeria, its combat zones and the areas to which its fighters have withdrawn. The...
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Minka Sahel Initiative
The security, humanitarian, and sociopolitical situation in the Sahel has continued to deteriorate since the 2012 crisis in Mali, with a significant increase in conflict hotspots. More than one millio...
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Minka CAR Initiative
The Central African Republic (CAR) is experiencing a situation of chronic conflict, with militant activity by armed groups spreading over a large swath of the country, including violent attacks agains...
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Climate: the double life of wastewater
In Tunisia, climate change is likely to exacerbate an already critical situation of water stress. While demand is growing, Water is becoming scarce. Following the Paris Climate Agreement, AFD has l...
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Making Food a “Common Good”: Lessons From Three Experiences to Fight Malnutrition
Food supply is caught in a powerful paradox. The right to food is one of the most established and codified human rights. However, almost a billion people – one person out of nine – currently suffer fr...
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The Challenges of Achieving Universal Electrification
This study takes stock of national off-grid electrification strategies, focusing mainly on two technical options: mini-grids and individual solar systems. It provides recommendations regarding the amb...
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Impacts of weather and climate information services on African agriculture
Weather and seasonal forecasts give African farmers the information they need to prepare for climate shocks and change their practices.These changes are generally economically beneficial. Yet consider...
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Reviving agricultural advisory and extension services in sub-Saharan Africa
The Inter-réseaux Développement rural – IRAM – Ambre conseil/CERFRANCE – CIRAD group was mobilised by the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement, or “AFD”) in order to spark disc...
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Citizen participation:leverage for better public services?
Citizen participation could leverage public action to improve access to water in remote areas and address second-string subjects such as sanitation. However, this still very incantatory notion with i...
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All Hands on Deck : Reducing Stunting through Multisectoral Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa
The prevalence of stunting in Sub-Saharan Africa has been declining significantly. Yet, because of high fertility rates, this is the only region in the world with a growing number of children under th...
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Evaluation Summary - Mombasa Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project (Mombasa WaSSIP), Kenya
In Kenya, for the water and sanitation sector, the sovereign loan to support the Mombasa water and sanitation service improvement project was subject to an evaluation in 2019. At the project incept...
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Evaluation Summary - Health Sector Support Projects in Chad (PASST 1 and 2)
In Chad, for the health sector, two successive health sector support projects were evaluated in 2019. The methodological approach developed for this evaluation was "change" oriented, putting at the he...
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