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The Minka Peace and Resilience Fund is AFD's peacebuilding tool dedicated to territories affected by crises or violent conflicts. Positioned on the humanitarian-...

Since the last edition of our publication MacroDev Semestrial in February 2023, international economic developments have remained eventful and intense, against the backdrop of the continued global geopolitical reconfiguration. They are not without consequences for emerging and developing...

Over the past decade, the deterioration of the security situation has profoundly destabilized the Central Sahel, with spillover effects throughout the region and even beyond. Weakened social cohesion has led to increasingly violent and uncontrolled conflict. In addition, the political turmoil...

The Minka Peace and Resilience Fund, implemented by AFD, is dedicated to medium and long-term financing  operations in regions affected by crisis or violent conflict. The Minka...

Development in the Greater Sahel region (Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali,...

In Burkina Faso, the "Metis" project, through dance, aims to strengthen social ties in a context of urban development through work on self-esteem, by fostering resilience and inclusion and by providing access to art and culture. Launched in 2021 by Agence Française de Développement...

CICLIA is a facility funded by the EU, SECO and AFD that supports more than 30 cities in sub-Saharan Africa in the preparation of low-carbon and resilient urban strategies and projects. With 800,000 inhabitants, the city of Bobo-Dioulasso is the second largest city in the country and a very...

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 of analyses, whereas the truth is that the region is also seeing positive trends. Even as it...

The Greater Sahel region was once a prosperous region in Africa. The region is clearly defined by its geography and climate. It also has the lowest GDP per capita of all the six African regions identified by AFD. Over the past...

As crises become longer and more complex, AFD Group has made a key commitment to sustainable peace, the climate and social cohesion. This commitment is part of France’s...

The precarious housing conditions in informal settlements increase inequalities. Restructuring these neighborhoods by providing them with basic social services would be one of the solutions to improve their inhabitants’ living conditions, and thus to reduce inequalities.

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 Faso. Over time, we observe increased equality for both public and overall health spending,...

How public and overall health spending on curative health services have become more egalitarian as Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policies have been rolled out in Burkina Faso? Over time, increased equality in the distribution of benefits is seen for both public and overall health spending, the...

The distribution of both public healthcare spending and overall healthcare spending has become increasingly egalitarian in Burkina Faso, Malawi, and Zambia, according to a new study. Nevertheless, there remain significant regional differences within countries. In addition, limitations in data...

A new study examines the distributional incidence of healthcare spending in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the techniques used to conduct the analysis will help key decisions on both future policy and future data collection.  

In 2009, the rate of access to electricity in Burkina Faso stood at around 13%, well below the average of the ECOWAS countries (19%). The country’s energy mix was highly dependent on thermal energy. The country then embarked on a proactive policy to improve access to energy services. The project...

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 (knowledge, soft skills, and know-how), through quality education and training, in order to...

In their design and formulation, policy documents are generally limited to the macro level (entire country); they set out regional differences without explicitly highlighting the intraregional mechanisms at play. It is necessary to understand these interregional inequalities, but also to shed...

With the Multidimensional Inequality Framework and the capabilities approach as its theoretical underpinning, this research shows that strong similarities in the expressions of inequalities exist in different domains of life in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal. Inequalities depending...

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 challenges facing women, young people, and minority groups. New research on inequalities across six...