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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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Ex-post evaluation of AFD policy-based loans in Georgia
The evaluation covers AFD support through PBL (policy-based loans) to Georgia’s social welfare policies since 2016, in two main phases: i) a non-targeted multisectoral budget support programme, co-fin...
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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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Health and Social Protection - 2021 Activity Report
The Covid-19 epidemic is a reminder to us all of the critical importance of health and social protection in a world threatened by environmental crises. The multidimensional and long-lasting nature of...
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AFD and Health in Common
Fulfilling France’s commitment to the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, AFD took action starting in April 2020 to address the social and health challenges stemming from the crisis, via our “He...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on households and firms in the MENA region: the case of Sudan
This paper aims to discuss the status of households and firms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sudan as a case study of the MENA countries. It is based on new primary data obtained from ERF COVID MENA...
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Evaluation Summary - Social protection policy-based loan, Egypt
The objective of AFD’s intervention was to improve the equity and financial sustainability of the social protection system. It was structured around two pillars: - supporting the implementation of t...
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Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in the Time of COVID-19: Selected MENA Countries
COVID-19 is testing food and social protection systems in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at an unprecedented scale. Countries responded by expanding social safety nets (SSNs) and/or di...
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Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in MENA in the Time of COVID-19
A total of 52 million people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) were chronically undernourished in 2019. About eight million more were expected to fall into poverty and be food insecure in the...
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