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The Generation Equality Forum (FGE) opens today in Paris. 26 years after the Beijing Declaration, this event...

Across the world, flooding remains the most frequent and most damaging natural risk. This technical report begins by exploring the reasons for this state of affairs: hydrological regimes, the existence of extreme events as part of a continuous distribution of possibilities, and the concepts of...

Supporting national research activities and institutions and structuring networks of researchers in developing countries is a recent focus of AFD's activities and is fully in line with its strategy. Thomas Melonio, AFD's Executive Director for Innovation, Research and Knowledge, explains the...

This study provides an analysis of the French usage of multi-bi aid in comparison to other large donors of development assistance. Using a diverse set of methods, including document analysis, interview evidence, and state-of-the-art statistical methods, it seeks to identify general trends in the...

Responsible consumption based on labels arouses enthusiasm among the community of development (donors, NGOs, researchers, policy makers). Indeed, information provision may appear as a “third wave” of regulation (Tietenberg, 1998), both less costly and more efficient than “command-and-control” or...