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Public bank lending in Africa in times of crisis
This paper examines public bank lending in Africa in times of crisis. To do so, we exploit an original data set covering all banks operating in eight West African countries. The final sample considers...
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E-commerce tax: an opportunity for Africa?
The digital transformation does away with the need for multinational enterprises to be physically present in the countries where they operate. This poses a major challenge in terms of taxation and los...
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Semestrial Panorama 2022 #2
The rise in commodity prices had already been happening since mid-2020 and is subject to an in-depth analysis in this third issue of the semi-annual MacroDev Panorama. The objective is to place the dr...
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Drinking water for everyone, everywhere at Kinshasa
As part of the Debt Reduction and Development Contract (C2D) signed between France and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), AFD granted in May 2014 a grant of €18 million to finance the project for...
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Catherine Simonet and Camille Laporte: the importance of evaluating the Minka fund
In the face of increasingly complex crisis, development gains are under threat. In response, France has created a financing tool dedicated to peacebuilding: the Minka Fund. Five years after its launch...
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TO PETOLA Project: strengthening the resilience of Kinshasa's urban neighborhoods
CICLIA is a facility funded by the EU, SECO and AFD that supports more than 35 cities in sub-Saharan Africa in the preparation of low-carbon and resilient urban strategies and projects. CICLIA funded...
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CICLIA: more resilient neighborhoods in Monrovia
In Liberia, the inhabitants of Greater Monrovia face the double challenge of living in very difficult conditions (poor access to basic services, no public spaces, damages caused by strong and regular...
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Agroforestry: reinvesting the acacia trees in Sudan
In Sudan, along the Gum Arabic belt, the Acacia tree “Senegal” has been cultivated for 300 years. Natural driver of the agroforestry, the trees are also cultivated for their Gum, making Sudan the worl...
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Water works in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province
The Mulonga water project in the Copperbelt Province was initiated to change lives of 530 000 people, by providing safe access to sanitation and drinking water. The project aims to improve living cond...
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Egypt - Strategy to 2025
“AFD Group’s country strategy for Egypt up to 2025” builds on the joint programming and partnership initiative established between AFD and Egypt’s Ministry of International Cooperation. It presents a...
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In Egypt, AFD Group is committed to renewable energies
AFD Group has been operating in the energy sector in Egypt for almost 10 years, financing renewable energy projects and strengthening the electricity transmission network. AFD Group has already commit...
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Up to the Tusk | Episode 1
The National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC), with support from AFD and Peace Park Foundation, launched a series of counter-offensives aimed at protecting Mozambique wildlife and biodivers...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on households and firms in the MENA region: the case of Sudan
This paper aims to discuss the status of households and firms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sudan as a case study of the MENA countries. It is based on new primary data obtained from ERF COVID MENA...
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Kenya: Tailoring a city to its residents
In Western Kenya, Kisumu city is home to 600,000 residents. A figure that keeps growing. To support the city in accommodating its population, AFD Group and the city of Kisumu have partnered for over...
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Evaluation of AFD and FFEM contributions to biodiversity conservation trust funds (2005-2019)
This evaluation is the first of its kind and focuses on projects that targeted Conservation Trust Funds (CTFs) supported by AFD and FFEM. It provides a comparative analysis of eight CTFs in Africa, th...
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Evaluation Summary - Social protection policy-based loan, Egypt
The objective of AFD’s intervention was to improve the equity and financial sustainability of the social protection system. It was structured around two pillars: - supporting the implementation of t...
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Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in the Time of COVID-19: Selected MENA Countries
COVID-19 is testing food and social protection systems in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at an unprecedented scale. Countries responded by expanding social safety nets (SSNs) and/or di...
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Mental Health and Gender Inequality in the MENA Region: An Analysis of Shock Related Factors Within the Contex...
This paper investigates the potential associations between factors that affected households during the pandemic (such as food insecurity) and the gendered mental health inequalities in the MENA region...
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Resilience in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons Learned from MENA SMEs
We investigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in four non-oil-exporting MENA countries (Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt). Using data from a recen...
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Sahel - 2021 Activity Report
Development in the Greater Sahel region (Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad) is marked by contrasts. The wide range of issues require a collective...
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Measuring the impact of development projects using geospatial impact evaluation methods
Geospatial impact evaluation (GIE) methods were developed because of the increasing availability of geospatial data. They are particularly suited to evaluating the impact of development aid programmes...
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