Publications and media
Improving the employment of young people and women in a context of crisis in Lebanon
In Lebanon, AFD and the NGO IECD (“Semeurs d’Avenir”) are not only trying to teach young people a trade, they are promoting the togetherness. Lebanese society has not totally recovered from the 2005 c...
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Philanthropic Foundations in Asia: Insights from Singapore, Myanmar and China
This study looks at an emerging trend in which wealthy families, individuals, and corporations in Asia set up foundations to institutionalise their giving. This giving is motivated by a myriad of fact...
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Holding Land in Common within Cities
In the Global South, access to decent housing and secure land tenure remains a great challenge for most urban dwellers. Yet secure land tenure is a key component of urban resilience. This paper summar...
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Kochi Metro Experience
THE KOCHI METRO EXPERIENCE: A valuable contribution to the history of Indian metros
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Indonesia: Reforms to Meet Development Challenges
The Indonesian economy is experiencing structural changes and must deal with new challenges in an uncer¬tain international setting. In the past decade, its industry has undergone reprimarization (focu...
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Evaluation Summary - District Heating Projects in Jinzhong and Taiyuan
In China, district heating projects in Jinzhong and Taiyuan were subject to an evaluation in May 2017. In 2005, the Government of the People’s Republic of China set national goals for reducing the...
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Evaluation Summary - Urban development project in Luang Prabang (PADUL)
In the People’s Democratic Republic of Lao, for the “Urban Development” sector, the grant to support the urban development project in Luang Praband (PADUL) was subject to an evaluation in November 201...
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Towards Efficient Urban Public Services in India
The urban population in India is growing consistently, placing unseen pressure on existing urban infrastructures. Public service performance is low by international standards. Empowerment of local aut...
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Sri Lanka’s Growth Model: Progress and Vulnerabilities
This study provides a cross-analysis of the social and macroeconomic challenges facing Sri Lanka and is based on five sections. The first section addresses the socio-political context. In the second s...
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Evaluation Summary - Reconstruction of the urban drainage system of Banda Aceh
In Indonesia, for the “Sanitation” sector, the sovereign loan to support the reconstruction of the urban drainage system of Banda Aceh was subject to an evaluation in January 2017. After the 2004 t...
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Evaluation Summary - Niroth Water Production Facilities (phase 1), Cambodia
In Cambodia, for the “Water supply” sector, the Niroth Water Production Facilities (phase 1) project was subject to an evaluation in October and November 2016. The project was implemented in the cont...
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Evaluation Summary - Cluster of 5 District Heating Projects in China
A cluster of 5 district heating projects financed by AFD in China was evaluated. They were approuved between 2012 and 2017, some of which were still being implemented at the time of the evaluation. Th...
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Vietnam: New "Workshop of the World"? Opportunities and Challenges
Following turbulence in 2012-2013, the Vietnamese economy seems to have recovered its momentum. Its growth rate was 6.7% in 2015 and is expected to stabilize at over 6% in 2016 despite the negative im...
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Evaluation Summary - Budget support operation for decentralization in the Philippines
In the Philippines, the budget support operation for decentralization was subject to an evaluation in July 2016. Due to a lack of regulatory framework and of local government unit capacities, the e...
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Evaluation Summary - Second phase of the water supply distribution extension in Vientiane project (AEP2)
In Laos, the second phase of the water supply distribution extension in Vientiane project (AEP2) was subject to an evaluation in May 2016. The company Nam Papa Nakhone Luang (NPNL) was unable to me...
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Supporting Access to and Retention in Employment for Women by Enhancing Childcare Services in Türkiye
Female labor force participation remains low in Türkiye compared to other OECD countries and labor market attachment is particularly low among women with children. In recent years, government policy h...
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Toward an Analytical Framework for the Governance of Natural Resources: The Case of Groundwater
The issue of groundwater management challenges the paradigm along which the concept of good governance has developed since the 1990s. We show that in contexts involving multiple power structures, the...
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Evaluation Summary - Şishane-Yenikapi metro extension project of the metropolitan municipality of Istanbul
In Turkey, the Sishane-Yenikapi metro extension project of the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul was subject to an evaluation in March 2016. The major transportation scheme designed by the Metr...
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Creating Alliances to Accelerate Commercially Viable Sanitation - Lessons learned from the toilet board coalit...
The past decades have seen a growing appreciation of the role of market-based approaches in driving global development. Many coalitions of public and private players have emerged to promote them. How...
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Energy and Development in Emerging Countries
Energy is an important component of the economy and is a fundamental factor of production. In general we expect is use to grow in some relation to growth in economic activity. Empirically we see a clo...
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Actors and networks of agroecology in the Greater Mekong Subregion
A comparative analysis of agroecology network led to a classification based on their conditions of emergence, their structure and governance mechanisms. The study points the strengths and weaknesses o...
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