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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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Gender and Mental Health: COVID-19 shock-related factors
At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the self-reported mental well-being of women in certain Middle East and North African (MENA) countries was significantly worse compared to that of men. New analys...
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Populations' behavior analysis toward Covid-19 safety measures: Evidence from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
This policy brief assesses the COVID-19 safety measures use practices of some MENA populations, namely: Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian populations. To this end, three waves of data provided by rapid...
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Mental Health and Gender Inequality in the MENA Region: An Analysis of Shock Related Factors Within the Contex...
This paper investigates the potential associations between factors that affected households during the pandemic (such as food insecurity) and the gendered mental health inequalities in the MENA region...
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Populations' Behavior Toward Covid-19 Safety Measures: Evidence from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia
The present study aims to analyze the populations’ behavior toward COVID-19 safety measures in each of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. In this direction, a particular focus is put on which safety measu...
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Resilience in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons Learned from MENA SMEs
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent an important socioeconomic pillar that contributes to overall economic activity in many developing countries. The Covid-19 pandemic that emerged in...
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Resilience in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons Learned from MENA SMEs
We investigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in four non-oil-exporting MENA countries (Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt). Using data from a recen...
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First Out, Last In amid COVID-19: Employment Vulnerability of Youths in the Middle East
This study estimates the impacts of the evolving COVID-19 crisis on the trends in workers’ employment outcomes in Egypt and Jordan. Using panel microdata from ERF COVID-19 MENA Monitors, waves 1–5 (Ju...
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Beirut: a healthcare center for the disadvantaged
In a context of deterioration of the Lebanese health system, AFD, trough Minka Peace and resilience fund, has decided to intervene to ensure the provision of quality and sustainable health care to Leb...
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Building Data Infrastructure in Development Contexts: Lessons from the #Data4COVID19 Africa Challenge
COVID-19 and other societal threats hamper the ability of development practitioners and stakeholders to address public needs. Bolstering society’s ability to responsibly access, re-use and generate in...
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Improving the identification of multiple causes of death in the absence of death certificates
Health developments represent a challenge for healthcare systems and public policy alike. High-income countries developed the multiplecauses-of-death approach, which takes into account all the causes...
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Methodological Guide: Integrating Informal Actors into Waste Management Projects in Emerging Countries
Whether we call them chiffonniers, cartoneros, pepanadores, zabbalin or ragpickers, historically and in most societies, the poorest have handled the management of household waste, in particular the wa...
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FOCUS | Solid waste management
Mankind generates more than two billion tons of municipal solid waste every year; at least one third of this is not properly treated. This waste has a direct impact on health, climate, biodiversity an...
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Türkiye: a new state hospital in Hatay
Built with the financing of the EU under the Facility for Refugees in Türkiye (FRiT), and implemented by AFD under a delegation of funds, the construction and equipment of the new hospital was led by...
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Social Assistance for Informal workers
This paper exposes the measures extended to informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study analyzes two South-American countries which have a high percentage of informality, Colombia and Bra...
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Making abortion safer: a vital necessity
One-third of the 200 million pregnancies per year are un- wanted. These are closely linked to difficulties in acces-sing sex education and effective contraceptive methods. Unwanted pregnancies are a p...
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