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Encouraging green finance: AFD's offer to public banks
AFD is the first agency to be 100% in line with the Paris Agreement and to make strong commitments on climate financing by supporting the transformation of financial actors' practices and promoting su...
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Social Protection and Multidimensional Poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru
We investigate the impact of three large-scale social protection schemes in Ethiopia, India, and Peru on multidimensional poverty. Using data from the Young Lives cohort study, we show the trend, chan...
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Social Protection and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Evidence from Three Large-scale Programs
Social-protection schemes have become a popular form of government intervention in developing countries. The empirical evidence is still scant on their effectiveness in reducing within-household inequ...
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Social Protection and Inequality: Evidence from Ethiopia, India and Peru
Do antipoverty programs reduce inequality? Evidence from Ethiopia, We examine trends of consumption inequality among culturally and socially defined groups in Ethiopia, India and Peru during the pe...
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India: Citizen-powered urban development
Under the Government of India's CITIIS program, AFD and the EU are supporting the city of Amaravati in its transformation into a bustling urban hub. Here's how the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Develo...
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India: Cleaner, greener public open spaces with CITIIS
Agartala Smart City Limited, together with support from AFD and the EU under the CITIIS program, is determined to bring the city's public spaces back to life. The Howrah Riverfront Development Project...
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AFD and India: Focus on Energy
A partner of India since 2008, AFD works in agreement with Indian authorities to promote green and inclusive growth. It operates through soft loans to the state and public enterprises, as well as tech...
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Shaping sustainable urban development in india with CITIIS
The CITIIS program was launched by the government of India, AFD and the EU in 2018. Under this program, 12 Indian cities were selected to receive financial and technical assistance from AFD and the EU...
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Restoring forest ecosystem in Assam
Since 2012, AFD has been working with the State of Assam on biodiversity conservation, sustainable and participatory management of forests, creation of alternate livelihoods for forest-dependent commu...
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Diverting Solid Waste
This work takes as its starting point the findings of local authorities in the global South: as and when they are required to shut down old disposal sites and invest in costly sanitary landfills, citi...
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Kochi Metro: Enhancing mobility and empowering women
AFD has been working with local authorities and the Indian government to support the Kochi Metro project since February 2014. When the metro was first inaugurated, the curious public would come to vis...
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AFD and India
A partner of India since 2008, AFD works in agreement with Indian authorities to promote green and inclusive growth. It operates through loans to state and public enterprises, as well as through techn...
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Building smart sustainable cities with CITIIS
In July 2018, AFD launched one of its largest national level projects – CITIIS (City Investments to Innovate, Integrate and Sustain). 100 cities have been shortlisted by the government of India to bec...
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India - 2017-2021 Strategy
With a total net commitment of almost EUR 1.5bn since the opening of AFD’s India agency in 2008 and annual commitments of around EUR 250m since 2013,27 activities in India represent, nearly a quarter...
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10 years of partnership between India and AFD
Today’s world is increasingly interconnected. Building a safer, more equitable and sustainable world implies intensifying collective action and partnerships to shape solutions that benefit all. India...
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Challenges in Sanitation
Among the essential public utilities, sanitation and wastewater services present forms of organization and management that have contributed to make it low on the agenda of policy makers when it comes...
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Informal Recycling vs municipal Waste Service in Asian cities: Opposition or Integration?
Despite being generally poorly recognized by public authorities, informal recycling remains nevertheless a major component in the waste sector, which questions the legitimacy of the official waste arr...
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Kochi Metro Experience
THE KOCHI METRO EXPERIENCE: A valuable contribution to the history of Indian metros
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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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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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Panorama of the Urban and Municipal Sector in India
La transition urbaine de l'Inde aura des impacts majeurs ces vingt prochaines années. En comparaison à la moyenne mondiale (50 %), le taux d'urbanisation du pays, situé juste au-dessus de 30 %, est en...
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