Publications and media
Final Evaluation of the ‘Liberia Employment and Entrepreneurship Programme’ (LEEP) (CLR1009)
The goal of LEEP was to enable 11,000 Liberian youth, both male and female, aged 18-35 years to find meaningful, market-driven employment or self-employment. It had three interlinked and mutually rein...
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Education, Training, Employment - 2021 Activity Report
Lifelong learning, the acquisition of skills, and access to jobs are the cornerstones of fairer and more sustainable economic and social development (Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 8). In 2021...
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Nigeria: children catch up on their dreams
The CATCH UP! project carried out by the Urumwa Art studio in partnership with the artist Uche Uguru, aims to meet this need for basic education through access to culture. Working for several months o...
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Assam: Forest communities lead forest conservation
In Assam, AFD is supporting the Assam Project for Forest and Biodiversity Conservation (APFBC) as it trains local communities in alternate livelihoods. Through these new trades, local residents can su...
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AFD Group, a partner for your development projects in Southeast Asia
AFD Group has been active in Southeast Asia for over 25 years. Find out what its strategic priorities are in the region and how it can support your projects to improve their impact! ©AFD2021
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In the Sahel, real economic and social development
Fragility and conflict are the main lenses through which Sahelian issues are most often viewed. However, the crystallization of the debate around these issues, real as they are, leads to a narrowing o...
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Education, Training, Employment - 2020 Activity Report
Education, lifelong training and access to employment are the cornerstones of more sustainable economic and social development. In 2020, AFD mobilized its financing to respond to the urgency of the...
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Youth of Niger: schooling and training as useful tools for inclusion
Education and training can help drive escapes from poverty, and education policy needs to understand and deal with each barrier to this goal. Govern-ment and donors need to allocate in-creased budgets...
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Teacher Wages, the Recruitment of Talent, and Academic Achievement
This paper studies the effects of a large unconditional increase in the salary of public sector teachers in Peru. Population-based rules that determine the level of teacher compensation generate local...
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Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: A Review Paper
Very little attention has been paid to African inequality dynamics in high-profile international discussions of changing global inequality despite the fact that African dynamics will become increasing...
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Multidimensional Inequality in Vietnam
Even though Vietnam has achieved great social and economic development over the past 30 years, notorious gaps remain not only in income, but also in other critical dimensions of well-being and politic...
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Pham Thi Lan Phuong and the vocational training for young people
AFD supports the renovation and structuring of five technical training centres to address the shortage of qualified technicians in Vietnam. Meeting with Pham Thi Lan Phuong, director of one of these...
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Vietnam: 3 years of partnership to engage young people against climate change
Over the past three years, AFD and the Vietnam Youth Union have carried out various actions to raise awareness among young people about the fight against climate change and encourage them to take acti...
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Education, Training, Employment - 2019 Activity Report
Education, lifelong training and access to employment are the cornerstones of more sustainable economic and social development. Despite the progress achieved in enrolling children in school, there...
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Inequalities in Tunisia: what role for inherited human capital and social capital?
Regional inequalities are substantial in Tunisia. In the rural western regions, the poverty and unemployment rates are almost three times those of the more advantaged eastern regions. Several factors...
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Improving access to education in Burkina Faso: a major condition for benefiting from the demographic dividend
The large share of children, teenagers, and young people within the Burkinabe population requires strong actions and considerable investments now to offer this segment of the population life skills (k...
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A Strategy for Reducing Inequalities in West Africa
Reducing economic and social inequalities in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Senegal requires a set of policies clearly focused on the most remote areas of these countries and the particular cha...
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Multidimensional Inequality in Vietnam
There is a broad consensus that inequality is harmful to sustainable development. Recent studies show that inequality can reduce economic growth and increase poverty, hamper the enjoyment of human rig...
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Understanding the relationship between Consumption Inequality, Inequality of Opportunity and Education Outcome...
There have been calls for a shift in policy focus towards economic inequality given that it can potentially generate social instability and be harmful to economic growth in the long run. The current s...
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Evaluation Summary - Project to Support Vocational Training in Vietnam
In Vietnam, in the field of vocational training, the Vocational Training Support Project (VTSP) underwent a mid-term evaluation in March 2019. The project aims to support the implementation of the...
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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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