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In the mountainous regions of southern Ethiopia, crops are exposed to erosion and loss of soil fertility, with disastrous consequences on agriculture and livestock. AFD is therefore supporting a project implemented by Inter Aide that will benefit 40 000 families. ©AFD2022

The mountainous regions of southern Ethiopia are suffering from severe water shortages. Inter Aide, with the support of AFD, has therefore developed a project of water networks, hence reinforcing water security for the communities. ©AFD2022

Jérémy Gasc, Energy Task Team Leader for Eastern Africa at AFD, details the potential of regional integration for the development of green energy in the region, but also AFD's actions to support this approach.

Does your country or institution wish to promote productive #rural areas that are respectful of nature ? You need a partner who shares the same objectives for those rural areas:  ✔Supporting and accompanying your development projects so that they are both productive and ecological...

An increased recourse to financing from the domestic banking sector has proved to be an important source of resilience for many developing countries in their efforts to face expenditures generated by the Covid-19 crisis. The second issue of MacroDev Semestrial Panorama offers an analysis of the...

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 conditional cash transfer program in Peru – contribute to reduced consumption inequality between and...

Three large-scale social protection schemes – the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia; the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India; and the Juntos conditional cash transfer program in Peru – have been successful in diverting resources from adults to children,...

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 conditional cash transfer program in Peru - have led to a reduction in both the incidence and...

Do antipoverty programs reduce inequality? Evidence from Ethiopia, We examine trends of consumption inequality among culturally and socially defined groups in Ethiopia, India and Peru during the period 2006-2016. We find a strong correlation between living standards and social protection...

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, changes and evolution of multidimensional poverty for program participant households. We follow a...

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 inequality and poverty. To this aim, we use data from the Young Lives cohort study, and evaluate the...

We examine how investment in high-value agriculture can help to address the balance of payments constraint on growth and the wage employment challenge in Ethiopia while accelerating structural change. The industrialization of freshness has significant implications for policy priorities....

In Ethiopia, for the “Wind power” sector, the project to support the construction of the Ashegoda Wind farm was subject to an evaluation in February 2018. The Ethiopian government sought to diversify its renewable...

The aim of this study is to examine public food storage systems in developing countries, particularly Africa. In which context is it pertinent to set up one type of stock over another? What conditions have to be met to ensure the institutional and economic feasibility of this type of instrument...

Climate change has become the most important global issue of our time and now occupies a key place on the global governance agenda. Recent attempts to create a concrete framework for mitigation have fallen short. This failure has been explored in a number of studies. These have mostly focused on...

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...

This report is an integral part of the survey and analysis work launched by the Research Department of the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement, AFD) on training in the informal sector in five African countries (South Africa, Benin, Cameroon, Morocco and Senegal). It was...