Alain Goulard
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Climate: Taking action for a more sustainable financial system
Actors in the financial system play an essential role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in combating climate disruption. AFD Group works alongside financial institutions and regulators in the field to build long-term sustainable economic, social, and environmental...
Published in March 2024
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Emerging and Developing Countries: The Noose is Tightening
The dual shock of the health crisis and the war in Ukraine has pushed up inflation to an extent not seen in developed countries since the 1979 oil shock and the Iran-Iraq war. This shock has put an end to two decades of disinflation imported from China and other emerging and developing countries...
Published on 14 Feb 2023
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Urban Projects Finance Initiative (UPFI)
The Union for the Mediterranean, the European Union, Agence Française de Développement and the European Investment Bank have joined forces to build a successful transition towards sustainable Mediterranean cities.
The Urban Projects Finance Initiative (UPFI) supported public project...
Published in January 2023
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AFD and Macroeconomic Modelling Tools for the Ecological Transition
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Gender and Mental Health: COVID-19 shock-related factors
At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the self-reported mental well-being of women in certain Middle East and North African (MENA) countries was significantly worse compared to that of men. New analysis has found that certain household and employment-related factors, such as food insecurity and...
Published in May 2022
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Populations' Behavior Toward Covid-19 Safety Measures: Evidence from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia
The present study aims to analyze the populations’ behavior toward COVID-19 safety measures in each of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. In this direction, a particular focus is put on which safety measures are observed and which category of people is most likely to observe them. To answer these...
Published in May 2022
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Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in MENA in the Time of COVID-19
A total of 52 million people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) were chronically undernourished in 2019. About eight million more were expected to fall into poverty and be food insecure in the Arab region by the end of 2021 owing to COVID-19. This study estimates if and to what extent...
Published in May 2022
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Populations' behavior analysis toward Covid-19 safety measures: Evidence from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
This policy brief assesses the COVID-19 safety measures use practices of some MENA populations, namely: Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian populations. To this end, three waves of data provided by rapid phone survey (household data) of ERF COVID -19 MENA Monitor, and Computer-Assisted Personal...
Published in May 2022
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Resilience in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons Learned from MENA SMEs
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent an important socioeconomic pillar that contributes to overall economic activity in many developing countries. The Covid-19 pandemic that emerged in the early months of 2020 is both a health and an economic crisis with dire consequences for...
Published on 03 May 2022
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The moroccan forest, an exceptional jewel to protect
Morocco’s varied landscapes and geomorphology make it one of the richest Mediterranean countries in terms of biodiversity.
Spread over 9 million hectares, the Moroccan forest is akin to the beating heart of the country's ecological wealth, and the lungs that help regulate the climate. It’s...
Published in March 2022
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AFD Group and Europe in North Africa
In Morocco, the "Metis" project, through photography aims to raise awareness of the role of women in artisanal fishing through: the impact of entrepreneurship and women's financial autonomy on development and the preservation of the environment.
Launched in 2021 by Agence Française de...
Published in January 2022
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North Africa - 2021-2025 Regional Strategy
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Food Systems in Africa
Rapid population growth, poorly planned urbanization, and evolving agricultural production and distribution practices are changing foodways in African cities and creating challenges: Africans are increasingly facing hunger, undernutrition, and malnutrition. Yet change also creates new...
Published in January 2021
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Cities and Food Systems: Rethinking the role of markets
This note is based on a research program carried out by AFD since 2014 to assess the role of food markets in African cities and to shift to a more holistic approach of “food systems”, considering many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Based on case studies led in Rabat-Salé in Morocco,...
Published on 14 Oct 2020
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Retrospective Evaluation of the Interventions in the Irrigation Sector
This evaluation was completed between August 2017 and July 2019 by the Hydroconseil-Agriate Consortium. The AFD’s Evaluation and Learning Department (EVA: Evaluation et Apprentissage) was responsible for the overall management of the evaluation. A Reference Group comprising AFD experts and...
Published in January 2020
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Rethinking Urban Food Supply in the Global South
Challenging misconceptions in order to improve public policy. Many misconceptions exist surrounding urban food supply in the Global South. They result in part from a fragmented vision of the food sector, which generates public policies that are focused either only upstream or downstream. A...
Published in October 2019
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Zenata, Sport at the heart of the new city
In the heart of the new city of Zenata, the first ground of the partnership between AFD and the famous NBA (National Basketball Association) was born. Adorned with the colors of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this brand new sports facility is designed to accommodate for several years...
Published in July 2019
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Challenges in Sanitation
Among the essential public utilities, sanitation and wastewater services present forms of organization and management that have contributed to make it low on the agenda of policy makers when it comes to the development of infrastructures. Backlogs in the provision of services to populations in...
Published in August 2018