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294 results for "citoyens institutions"
Microfinance at the service of the population in Ghana
The Ghanaian financial sector is dominated by banking institutions but also relies on a large number of non-bank financial institutions, from the formal, semi-formal or formalization sector. Microfina...
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Covid-19 response: supporting front-line laboratories in southeast Asia
To support national reference laboratories in Southeast Asia in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, AFD has granted additional financing of €2M to the ECOMORE II project implemented by the Institut Pas...
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AFD supports Armenia on its path towards more sustainable and resilient development
How can development finance address climate, social and institutional challenges at once?
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Access to water: persistence of inequalities in the life of women
This policy brief is aimed primarily at decision-makers at the municipal, regional and national levels, as well as at non-governmental institutions, neighborhood councils and private institutions. As...
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Evaluation Summary - Procredit – Upscaling to mesofinance
In Ghana, for the “Finance” sector, the grant to support the upscaling of ProCredit to mesofinance in order to develop its offer of loans to Small and medium enterprises (SME) was subject to an evalua...
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Checks and balance, Political Leadership, and Bureaucratic Autonomy: Evidence from National Development Banks
A long standing view in the political economy of bureaucracy holds that the quality of political governance is the foundation of high quality development agencies. However, the existing literature doe...
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Mid-term Evaluation of the Technical Assistance Program in Support to Reforms in the Water, Sanitation, and En...
The overall objective of the project is to strengthen the Lebanese actors in their respective functions as service providers (RWEs and supervision MoEW as well as to support the institutional dialogue...
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Mapping 500+ Development Banks
The Institute of New Structural Economics (INSE) at Peking University and the Agence française de développement (AFD) are collaborating to build the first comprehensive database on public development...
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Kosovo: The Challenges of Building the Growth Model
A small country in the Western Balkans, Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia in 2008. It has since strengthened its independence and built its sovereignty, resulting in a gradual...
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Paris Dialogue - Acting together for sustainable development
Established in 2023 by AFD, IEA, ICC, CEB, OECD, OIF, and UNESCO, the Paris Dialogue initiative is the result of a shared observation: international, European, and French institutions must cooperate d...
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Virtual universities in Africa: The challenges that need to be overcome
An increasing number of African nations now offer virtual universities. This is an appropriate (though partial) response to the challenge of the massification of higher education. However, the rollout...
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AGREENFI, an Agricultural and Rural Finance Label
Agricultural and rural development are essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also has a leverage effect for reducing social, economic, and climate vulnerabilities, and f...
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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in the Middle East and North Africa Area
During the nineties, the globalization of telecommunications imposed a model of development based on the suppression of public monopolies, leading to international competition and the privatization of...
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France’s Anti-Corruption Strategy in Its Cooperation Action 2021-2030
Fighting corruption is central to the rule of law and a necessary condition for the respect of human rights. A global phenomenon affecting all countries, corruption weakens the legitimacy of public au...
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Part 2: Implementing Alignment with the Paris Agreement: Recommendations for the Members of the International ...
Alignment with the Paris Agreement has become the new frontier of climate finance. Financial institutions, whether seeking sustainable development impacts or with commercial goals, are increasingly co...
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Women and Youth labor market outcomes during Covid19: evidence from Egypt and Jordan
In response to the onslaught of Covid-19, many countries introduced lockdowns and social distancing measures of varying stringency, with severe repercussions for labor market participants. Youth and f...
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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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What is Adapt'Action Facility?
Following the Paris Climate Agreement, AFD has launched Adapt’Action to support countries seeking technical assistance for the institutional, methodological and operational implementation of their com...
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Participatory irrigation management: from theory to reality – Insights from the Phước-Hòa irrigation project
PIM (Participatory Irrigation Management) has become one of the cornerstones of irrigation development. Its implementation always involves multilayered interaction between international ideologies, de...
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AFD and Southern Africa
The Johannesburg-based regional office for Southern Africa covers AFD’s activities in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. AFD’s par...
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How to improve the Effectiveness of International Funding for Education? The Aligned Pooled Fund Approach
International aid still largely relies on project-based financing. However, this fragmented approach has revealed significant limitations: it often establishes parallel systems that compete with...
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