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279 results for "citoyens institutions"
The Gap Between Rich and Poor: South African Society’s Biggest Divide Depends on Where You Think You Fit In
In this paper, we consider social cohesion primarily in terms of its absence – “the nature and extent of social and economic divisions within society” (Easterly et al., 2006: 105). We use data from th...
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Brochure AFD and European partnership
AFD and European Union (EU) institutions have decided to strengthen their partnership, with the aim of enhancing their effectiveness in development assistance and the fight against extreme poverty. O...
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Supporting pastoralism in Countries of the South: courses of action for sustainable development. AFD – CIRAD –...
The various forms of pastoralism help address the major challenges (such as food sovereignty, climate change adaptation, and social inclusion) faced by the approximately 100 countries worldwide where...
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Infographic - Our activity in favor of Gender equality 2023
Often the cause of injustice and factors in poverty, gender inequalities hold back the sustainable development of societies, politically, economically and socially. That’s why AFD mainstreams gende...
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Civil protection and AFD
AFD has been supporting the civil protection sector since 2019, with the goal of bolstering the resilience of both governments and populations affected by natural, climate-related and industrial hazar...
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Infographic – Our Activity in Favor of Gender Equality in 2022
Often the cause of injustice and factors in poverty, gender inequalities hold back the sustainable development of societies, politically, economically and socially. That’s why AFD mainstreams gend...
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How AFD brings your projects to life
How can a French public development bank support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that concern the whole world? Funding requests are submitted by local project sponsors to AF...
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Impact Evaluation - A Map of Uses
The best form of impact evaluation is that which is useful to AFD and its partners. Various types of methodological approaches can be used depending on the contexts and the issues at stake. This im...
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Official Development Assistance at the Age of Consequences
Official Development Assistance (ODA) was introduced in the 1960s as a temporary instrument to respond to a phase in world history involving decolonization, the Cold War, industrialization and flagran...
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Inequalities in Maternal Healthcare Spending: Evidence from Zambia
Public and overall health spending on institutional delivery services are more egalitarian as policies targeting universal maternal care are being rolled out in Zambia. While the distribution of benef...
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The effectiveness of an environmental credit line in Egypt: Synergies between market incentive and binding reg...
Among the many embodiments of the global sustainable development project, “green finance” is gaining ground and profile. Designed to both avoid investments with a negative environmental impact and mak...
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Aid Selectivity According to Augmented Criteria
A dominant trend in the literature maintains that donor assistance should be targeted to poor countries with sound institutions and policies. In this context, donor selectivity refers to what extent a...
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Research Conversations replay: Bonds for Sustainable Development?
This webinar is part of the conference series 'Research Conversations'.
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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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The choice of arabo-islamic education in sub-Saharan Africa: findings from a comparative study
While it is a central issue for most sub-Saharan African countries, quantification and qualification of the Arabo-Islamic education choice appear particularly poorly documented. After an inventory of...
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Digital technology: 2024 Activity report
In 2024, digital technology was a driving force in major economic, social, environmental, and democratic transitions. It provides powerful responses to the climate crisis, rising inequality, the trans...
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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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Research Conversations replay: Multidimensional Inequality in Vietnam
This webinar is part of the conference series 'Research Conversations'.
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Inequalities in Maternal Healthcare Spending: Evidence from Burkina Faso
This brief examines how public and overall health spending on institutional delivery services have become more egalitarian as policies targeting universal maternal care have been rolled out in Burkina...
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A research facility to better understand inequalities
The program is financed with €4 million from the European Commission and coordinated by AFD, which is leading various studies with academic and institutional partners in a number of developing, emergi...
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Shared Challenges for Development within ASEAN - Applied and Analytical Methods
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Global Development Network (GDN), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), University of Nantes, École...
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