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Flooding: Prevention as the Best Option
Across the world, flooding remains the most frequent and most damaging natural risk. This technical report begins by exploring the reasons for this state of affairs: hydrological regimes, the existenc...
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Southeast Asia - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy
AFD Group’s regional strategy for Southeast Asia aligns with the priorities of French development policy defined by the Interministerial Committee on International Cooperation and Development (CICID),...
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Cambodia: The magical ears of Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh Water Supply authority (PPWSA), in Cambodia, is one of the most efficient in the world, with only 8% water loss, which allows it to keep prices very low. These results are only possible tha...
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How can water resources be better managed to improve farmers' resilience to climatic hazards?
The WAT4CAM (Water Resources Management and Agricultural Transition for Cambodia) project supports the Royal Government of Cambodia to rehabilitate and modernize 7-13 medium irrigation schemes and 20-...
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Retrospective Evaluation of the Interventions in the Irrigation Sector
This evaluation was completed between August 2017 and July 2019 by the Hydroconseil-Agriate Consortium. The AFD’s Evaluation and Learning Department (EVA: Evaluation et Apprentissage) was responsible...
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Financing TVET: a comparative analysis in six Asian countries
Over the last years, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has been rising in the political agenda of both the international community and many governments around the world. In the ne...
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Reemerging diseases: New health challenges in Southeast Asia
Population growth and economic development in Southeast Asia are driving major changes: a high rate of urbanization, increased exploitation of natural resources, intensification of agricultural practi...
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Southeast Asia - Activity Report
AFD’s field of intervention in Southeast Asia covers seven ASEAN member countries: we’ve had a long-standing presence in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam going back to 1993. We’ve subsequently extended our...
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AFD and Cambodia
The French Development Agency or Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has been present in Cambodia since 1993. The Agency supports Cambodia in territorial, ecological and social transitions while f...
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AFD and the Environment in Cambodia
Despite its low contribution to global warming, Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world, which directly threatens the country’s prodigious biodiversity. AFD is...
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AFD and the Energy in Cambodia
In terms of energy, Cambodia faces major challenges: more than 20 years after the end of the social unrest that ravaged the country, it has yet to rebuild, develop and diversify its energy production,...
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AFD and the Financial Sector in Cambodia
Cambodia’s financial sector has developed recently, particularly through microfinance institutions. Many banks have also opened in the country in recent years, which is a proof of its economic strengt...
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AFD and the Water in Cambodia
In Phnom Penh, the drinking water system is of good quality. But in the provinces, the sanitation services are still largely undeveloped. AFD has been engaged in this sector in Cambodia since 2004. Th...
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AFD and the Rural Development in Cambodia
80% of the Cambodian population live in rural areas and 45% of the working population are engaged in agriculture. The primary sector still accounts for 23% of Cambodia’s GDP, despite a steady decrease...
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AFD and the Professional Training in Cambodia
Cambodia’s growth is one of the most robust in the region. However, the dynamism of the economy faces a number of structural weaknesses, notably related to the lack of qualifications among the workfor...
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Development Practices: Building New Equilibriums within the Commons-State-Market System
For ten years (1998 – 2008), the Cambodian government rehabilitated the Prey Nup polders, a 90 km of earth dikes system protecting 10,500 hectares of rice paddies from seawater intrusion. This French...
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Mekong: the challenges of common management
The Mekong River is a common good and its fairly-shared management can be a source of peace and development. This delta is one the biggest water reservoirs in the world along with Amazonia. 80 million...
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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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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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Evaluation Summary - Northwest irrigation sector project, Cambodia
In Cambodia, for the “Agricultural water resources” sector, Northwest irrigation sector project was subject to an evaluation in September 2014. The Northwest region of Cambodia includes a wide rura...
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Agroecology: Evaluation of 15 Years of AFD Support
This document is a summary of the final report on the external evaluation of 15 years of support actions by Agence Française de Développement and the French Facility for Global Environment – FFGE in a...
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