Research

More than 3 billion people live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change (IPCC, 2022). Yet, adapting to the impacts of climate change remains a complex process: multiple sectors as well as a wide range of social,...

Faced with increasingly competitive world tourism, the islands of the Indian Ocean are joining forces to become a common destination. The idea is to create a joint marketing banner, economies of scale and an inter-island travel offer based on ecotourism. The initiative is led by the association...

The current development of African education systems focuses on the perspective of universal completion of six years of schooling. This perspective, targeted by the international community for the year 2015 (Dakar declaration, Millennium Development Goals), will no doubt be reached by a number of...

Climate change is already having serious consequences in small island developing states (SIDS) in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. Sea level rise and the impacts of increasingly frequent and intense weather forcing threaten populations, economic infrastructure and basic services. It is urgent to...

Better-equipped hospitals, improved access to healthcare facilities, better trained staff, the upcoming introduction of universal health insurance: since 2007, AFD has been supporting the Comorian authorities through the PASCO project, an ambitious program aimed at supporting the health sector...

Initiated by the Indian Ocean Commission, the SEGA (Epidemic Surveillance and Alert Management) network is entering its third phase. The goal: a permanent regional mechanism to control the risk of epidemics in the south-western Indian Ocean.

Based in Moroni, AFD's Comoros office is attached to the Indian Ocean Regional Division.

Present in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, France has five departments and regions and seven overseas collectivities which are home to 2.7 million French citizens. Scattered across the globe, the overseas territories concentrate 97% of France’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) – the second...

It is now a widely recognised fact in the economic literature that the level of per capita income and the degree of sectoral concentration of economic activity evolve together over the long term. The empirical research of Imbs and Wacziarg (2003) has notably shown that production diversification...

Coastal erosion and marine flooding today pose a major challenge for the Comoros and are likely to increase in the future. To cope with this, the local population mainly favors “hard” adaptation by stabilizing the coast, in particular through seawalls. However, this approach appears to be rather...

At the Interministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) on February 8, 2018, the government made a commitment to strengthen the integration of overseas territories into their regional ocean basins by supporting cooperation projects with neighboring states....