Publications and media
Proposal for the extension, redesign, and repurposing of the SRD for the goal of poverty reduction
The study examines the special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant (hereafter ‘SRD’) and provides recommendations to maximise its impact on poverty reduction. The SRD showed itself to be an excel...
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Reducing Pollution from Cooking Smoke: key lessons from the REDGAS randomized study in Burkina Faso
Universal access to clean and efficient cooking remains an environmental and health challenge: despite progress in electrification, wood-based cooking is still widely used in many countries. The REDGA...
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Evaluation of the Health in Common 2020 Initiative (HIC 2020)
Three years after the outbreak of the global health crisis caused by Covid-19, an evaluation of AFD’s response to this pandemic seemed essential. Firstly, for accountability requirements with regard t...
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Social Mobility, Care Policies, and Social Protection Policies in Nuevo León
In this study, we shed light on the connections between social mobility and policies in terms of care and social protection in the state of Nuevo León. The objective is to examine women's opportunitie...
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Social Mobility, Care Policies, and Social Protection
In this study, we shed light on the connections between social mobility and social protection related to care. The objective is to examine women's opportunities for choice and life achievements in ter...
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AFD and the Just Energy Transition
The concept of “just transition” came about from the realization of the link between the environmental and social crises. It takes into account the interests of workers and disadvantaged people in the...
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AFD Group and FID health financing for CSOs
Is your Civil Society Organization (CSO) seeking financing for an international solidarity project in the health sector or does it want to implement an AFD group project? AFD group and the Fund for In...
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Human Rights as a Prism for Analysing the Ecological Transition
The fight against the ecological crisis and the protection of human rights are interdependent challenges that require collective efforts from governments, international organizations, civil society, b...
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The human rights-based approach: A lever for transformation
92% of the SDG targets are rooted in the international corpus of human rights. In this context, the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs' human rights strategy calls for "support for human ri...
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How can healthcare for older people in sub-Saharan Africa be improved?
In Africa, the demographic transitions in progress are accompanied by a predicted aging of the population. This phenomenon cannot be ignored in future political decisions. Nations south of the Sahara...
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Infographic - Our health and social protection commitments 2023
In 2023, AFD Group invested 474 million euro in the health sector. New funded projects will strengthen the capacity of health and social protection systems in a range of areas, including human resourc...
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Health and Social Protection - 2023 Activity Report
The year 2023 was rich in strategic developments in the health and social protection sectors, both in France and around the world. 2023 saw widespread recognition of the role of health and social prot...
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Burundi : living with HIV
Around 2.9% of Burundi's population is HIV-positive, a figure that is probably underestimated. Through several projects, the AFD Group is supporting the activities of the National Association for the...
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Kenya: specialist doctors in Kisumu City
In Kisumu, Kenya's third largest city, access to healthcare remains limited. This is why AFD has supported the extension of the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu, which aims to improve access to healthcare,...
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Evaluation of the project Strengthening Strategic Intelligence and Partnership Approaches to Prevent and Contr...
The intended aim of the Project (CZZ2266) was to improve public health programs that influence morbidity and mortality and improve resilience of populations facing climate change. The Project was c...
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Developing regional networks for integrated health surveillance
Avian flu, Ebola, Chikungunya or Covid-19... These emerging diseases are coming from animals. Agence Française de Développement is promoting a new approach to health policies, to better acknowledge t...
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Health and Social Protection - 2022 Activity Report
Two years after the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, the health emergency and the priorities to which it has given rise, have gradually given way to structural challenges faced by health and social...
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Kenya: a maternity ward for Lumumba hospital
Once a modest health center, the Lumumba establishment has become a reference hospital in Kisumu, au Kenya. It received support from AFD for its expansion and equipment, which allowed it to open a mat...
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Impact study of the creosote ban on power grid projects
Throughout the world, a vast majority of electric utility poles are made of wood. To increase the service life of these poles and improve their durability against various types of deterioration (insec...
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Infographic - Our health and social protection commitments 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic revealed the urgent need to invest more in making health and social protection systems more resilient to current and future crises, whether related to health, climate, the econom...
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The local economic development effects of income transfers in South Africa. The Social Relief of Distress gran...
Following the onset of COVID-19 in April 2020, this qualitative study considered the effects of the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant on local economies in five urban and peri-urban locations in S...
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