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With pragmatism and determination, AFD teams are currently working on more than 2,500 development projects across the world - supplying water to parched land and people in Jordan and electricity to the most remote villages in guatemala; helping farmers preserve their land in Peru; funding research

Sub-Saharan Africa has just experienced one of the best decades of growth since the 1960s. Between 2000 and 2012, gross domestic product (GDP) grew more than 4.5 percent a year on average, compared to around 2 percent in the prior 20 years (World Bank various years). In 2012, the region's GDP

This study is part of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world's knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. The AICD will provide a baseline against which future improvements in infrastructure services can be measured, making it possible to

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

It is generally agreed the last public-private partnership in which EDM was engaged, from 2000 to 2005, was a "resounding failure": international donors, professionals, and the totality of the Malian population are in agreement on this matter. The present study is opposed to such interpretations

Aid for trade is intended to support the integration of developing countries into the world trading system. Although this form of aid is being hailed as a promising new development tool, it lacks the strategic dimension that it needs if it is to be truly effective and fulfil donors‘ policy

This paper inquires into the nature of “participation” as a cross-section set of principles now applied to many issues of global concern. It argues that “participation” is a type of “global discourse” that is central to current forms of global governance, as well as to debates on, and around

New data, new concepts, new results: This working paper offers tools to rethink the role of "good governance" in development strategies. What is "good governance"? Transparency of public action, control of corruption, free operation of markets, democracy and the rule of law.With macroeconomic

Since the CICID (Inter-ministerial Committee for International Co-operation and Development) meeting in 2005, sectoral capacity-building now falls under AFD’s responsibility/remit. At the same time, technical assistance has become an entirely separate intervention modality for AFD. In 2007, the