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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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Burkina Faso: corporate citizens facing Covid-19
Like many countries, Burkina Faso is confronted with the Covid-19 pandemic. This health crisis has had a major impact on household income. In response, social support measures have been taken, such as...
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Dona Mena and sustainable cashew farming in Mozambique
Dona Mena is a cashew producer in the Gilé reserve in Mozambique. AFD is funding a project there which aims to contribute to strengthening the cashew nut sector in order to allow a sustainable improve...
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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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Waste Processing with Irène Salenson
Global waste is growing exponentially. This is partially due to population growth, but also to changing consumption patterns… In developing countries, local authorities are struggling to cope because...
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Dr. Thu Zar Myint Than and the knowledge for better disease control in Myanmar
The ECOMORE II project, coordinated by the Institut Pasteur and funded by the AFD, is investigating changes in the environment and in the human activities behind the emergence of infectious diseases i...
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Ko Naing Oo and a life in harmony with dolphins in Myanmar
The Irrawaddy dolphin has seen its population plummet by half in the last 60 years. This species is classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The objective of this project,...
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Ouvea, paradise under threat
Ouvea is listed as World Heritage by UNESCO and is one of the largest Pacific atolls (54 km long, 132 km²). It has a population of 3,400. The island is particularly vulnerable to climate hazards and g...
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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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Promoting equitable development of the cashew nut sector in Mozambique
The project aims to contribute to the strengthening of the cashew nut sector in order to allow a sustainable improvement of farmers' incomes while preserving natural resources. ©AFD2020
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Gilé National Reserve : Source of life in Mozambique
Like many other Protected Areas in the country, the Gilé National Reserve has suffered greatly from 25 years of conflict, war of independence and civil war. She was also very affected by the recurrent...
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Zambia: Clear as the province copperbelt water
The Copperbelt Province, Northern Zambia, is the second most populous province in the country with some 2 million inhabitants, 60% of which live in underserved urban areas where access to drinking wat...
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Water is life. Reviving water supply and livelihoods in Dhaka
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is home to 5 of Bangldesh’s 700 rivers. Still, depleting ground water levels mean nearly a third of the city’s population lacks reliable access to water. Together wi...
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Urban fabric initiative: a laboratory for citizen participation
The urban fabric initiative brings out and supports small or temporary micro-projects, carried by the inhabitants and quickly implemented, on the sites of urban projects financed in parallel by the Ag...
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Biodiversity under threath: how can we protect it?
As the Aichi 2010 targets come up for revision by the international community, the evaluation results outline potential answers to what works and does not work in the area of biodiversity protection,...
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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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Incubating innovative Audio-visual content
The Digital Content Hub is AFD’s first investment in the area of digital innovation in South Africa and reflects a new focus on financing cultural, creative and tech industries as key players in local...
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Sanitation for all in Djibouti
The city of Djibouti is home to 75 % of the total population of the eponymous country. Increasing urbanization has led to the explosion of the Balbala district. The result is a disorganized urban fab...
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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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Inspiring children and uplifting the city through sports
The city centre of Johannesburg, historically the heart of the city's economic activity, has seen a sharp decline since the 1970s: many buildings were abandoned, public spaces were left in decline and...
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