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Social Protection: The Impact on Multidimensional Poverty in Ethiopia, India, and Peru
Three large-scale social protection schemes - the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia; the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India; and the Juntos condi...
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Cultural and Creative Industries – 2022 Activity Report
The United Nations 2030 Agenda recognizes culture as a transversal theme and tool of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Improved access to culture and greater participation in cultural life ind...
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Education, Training, Employment - 2022 Activity Report
The Covid-19 crisis has had a major effect on the education sector and jeopardizes the advances made in school enrollment, especially of girls, as well as skills development for young people entering...
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Gaps in Human Capital and Labor Demand in Oaxaca
This report examines the structural barriers that constrain the development of talent in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It proposes concrete strategies to translate the region's cultural, productive, an...
Infographic - Our Sport & Development Commitments 2023
In February 2019, AFD Group adopted a “Sport and Development” strategy, which has consolidated the role of sports as part of our work with youth and efforts to reduce inequalities and build social coh...
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Cultural and Creative Industries – 2023 Activity Report
The United Nations 2030 Agenda recognizes culture as a transversal theme and tool of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Improved access to culture and greater participation in cultural life ind...
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Evaluation Summary - Mid-term evaluation of the project “Training and Employability for Vulnerable Populations...
In Lebanon, for the education and vocational training sector, the project "Training and employability of vulnerable populations impacted by the Syrian crisis in Lebanon" was subject to a mid-term eval...
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Mozambique: children dare to dream big
In Mozambique, AFD and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) are banking on education. The country inherited a deteriorated education system because of the civil war. In 1992, one child in two was n...
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Social Protection and Multidimensional Poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru
We investigate the impact of three large-scale social protection schemes in Ethiopia, India, and Peru on multidimensional poverty. Using data from the Young Lives cohort study, we show the trend, chan...
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Infographic - Our Sport & Development Commitments 2024
In February 2019, AFD Group adopted a “Sport and Development” strategy, which has consolidated the role of sports as part of our work with youth and efforts to reduce inequalities and build social coh...
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Sports & Development - Activity report 2023
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights sports as a unifying and inclusive vehicle: they contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in par...
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Research Conversations replay: A strategic framework for Nature-Based solutions in urban areas
This webinar is part of the conference series 'Research Conversations'.
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Understanding the installation process of youths in agriculture to better support it - Analysis grid and first...
Surprisingly, given the significant issues, it was not until the end of the 2000 decade that greater development efforts were significantly focusing on agricultural training and that the challenge of...
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How Can We Capitalize on the Demographic Dividend? Demographics at the Heart of Development Pathways
In the coming decades, West African countries could benefit from a “demographic window of opportunity” in order to reduce their poverty. The entry of 160 million young people into the labor market bet...
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Baladk Festival: raising awareness about water scarcity through street art
Jordan’s capital Amman hosted, in October 2021, the 9th edition of the “Baladk Street & Urban Art Festival”, organized by Al Balad Theater. The international and local artists participating in this ye...
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The Future of Work in Africa
The Future of Work in Africa focuses on the key themes of creating productive jobs and addressing the needs of those left behind. It highlights how global trends, especially the adoption of digital te...
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Training Gaza Youth for Gainful Employment
The overall objective of the project "Access to employment for NECC graduates in Gaza Strip" (ANGE) is to contribute to reducing poverty in the Gaza strip through increasing youth access to employment...
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Social Protection and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Evidence from Three Large-scale Programs
Social-protection schemes have become a popular form of government intervention in developing countries. The empirical evidence is still scant on their effectiveness in reducing within-household inequ...
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20 years of AFD in Palestine
Over the last twenty years and with a difficult Palestinian history, AFD funded many projects aiming to help the most vulnerable people and to support institutional building of Palestine. In coordinat...
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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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Financing TVET: a comparative analysis in six Asian countries - Korean Case Study
Over the last years, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has been rising in the political agenda of both the international community and many governments around the world. In the ne...
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