Alain Goulard
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Renewable Energy in the Pacific Islands: an overview and exemplary projects
More largely, in the context of the fight against climate change, the subject of renewable energies takes on considerable importance. A large number of island States in the Pacific zone are extremely dependent on fossil fuels, and in the coming years, will face major impacts related to climate...
Published in October 2014
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Agroecology: Evaluation of 15 Years of AFD Support
This document is a summary of the final report on the external evaluation of 15 years of support actions by Agence Française de Développement and the French Facility for Global Environment – FFGE in agroecology (in practice, on Direct Seeding Mulch-based Cropping systems – DMC). The evaluation was...
Published in October 2014
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Knowledge production at AFD
AFD has a dual mandate of financing sustainable and shared development and producing knowledge. The second strand of its mission is now more necessary than ever before. It needs to find responses to the concrete questions posed by the field and to feed fresh ideas into the international debate...
Published in September 2014
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Relational Capability Index 2.0
Relational Capabilities, as introduced by Giraud et al. (2013) aims to introduce social capital and social inclusion in the capabilities paradigm. This paper presents RCI 2.0, an alternative version of the Relational Capability Index (RCI). It is tailored for long-run monitoring of a country’s...
Published in September 2014
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Evaluation Summary - Northwest irrigation sector project, Cambodia
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The Rise of Asian Emerging Providers: New Approaches to Development Cooperation in Asia?
Le 15 novembre 2013, l'AFD et The Asia Foundation ont organisé un séminaire, à Paris, pour échanger sur les approches asiatiques de la coopération au développement. Cet évènement a regroupé des experts et praticiens des politiques asiatiques et européennes qui, ensemble, ont échangé sur la...
Published in September 2014
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Pastoral Water Development in Chad - Evaluation of AFD Interventions over the Last 20 Years
In 2012 the Evaluation Division of AFD’s Research Department decided to evaluate and follow up 20 years of AFD Group interventions in the pastoral water sector in Chad. This exercise, which covered 11 projects implemented in three areas of Chad between 1993 and 2013, was driven by the need for a...
Published in September 2014
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Securing pastoral mobility in Sahel
Pastoralism has long been regarded as archaic, but recent research shows that pastoral systems can effectively exploit the characteristic instability of dryland ecosystems and make productive use of their considerable potential. Recent research has increased recognition of pastoralism’s economic...
Published in August 2014
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Evaluation Summary - Yichang small hydraulic project, China
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The Perception and Management of Risk - Applied Methodological Approaches to Development
This work contains a verbatim account of the presentations and debates from the plenary sessions and workshops that took place from 19th to 27th July 2013 at
the University of Đà Lạt on the topic of “The Perception and Management of Risk“. Four main areas of re%ection are prioritised in the...
Published in July 2014
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Indonesia Climate Change Programme Loan (ICCPL)
In close partnership in 2008, 2009 and 2010, JICA and AFD approved a series of “climate” budget loans to the Indonesian Government in order to facilitate the design and implementation of an ambitious national policy to combat climate change (CC), supported by a high-level policy dialogue. This...
Published on 06 Sep 2017
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Ghana: The challenges of growth faced with increasing imbalances
Ghana, West Africa’s second largest economy, has been particularly adept over the last decade at consolidating its democracy and bolstering its growth regime. Despite the financial crisis, the country has seen average annual growth rates of over 7 per cent since 2005. Furthermore, Ghana has...
Published in June 2014
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Evaluation Summary - Siem Reap/Angkor Urban development project, Cambodia
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Exploring Environmental Complementarity between Types of Protected Areas in Kenya
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has clearly demonstrated that all the Earth‘s ecosystems have now been dramatically transformed through human actions. The resulting biodiversity loss is undermining the provision of a wide range of ecosystem services on which humanity depends. In this context...
Published on 31 Aug 2017
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AFD and its Partners - The Cultural Dimension
A development agency operating in a large number of countries and territories is faced with great cultural diversity. There are, of course, universal or almost universal expectations towards it. They do not only concern the purely financial aspects of its operations, such as interest rate levels...
Published in March 2014
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Development Challenges in Latin America
Despite remarkable economic dynamism and poverty reduction over the past decade, Latin America must still overcome many socioeconomic challenges to achieve sustainable development. Against a backdrop of less favorable economic circumstances for emerging countries, the second edition of the...
Published in March 2014
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Institutional Pathways for Local Climate Adaptation: A Comparison of Three South African Municipalities
Cette recherche porte sur les facteurs politiques, institutionnels et sociaux à l'origine de l'initiation de l'adaptation climatique à Cape Town, Durban et Theewaterskloof, localement considérées comme "leaders" dans la lutte contre le changement climatique. Les conclusions montrent que, faute...
Published in March 2014
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Food Reserves and Regulating Market Volatility in Africa
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...
Published in February 2014
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Refining AFD’s Interventions in the Palestinian Territories - Increasing Resilience in Area C
Zone C in the West Bank is a territory rich in natural resources and with great potential for economic development. It is also the only part of the West Bank over which the Palestinian Authority has no administrative control, nor a mandate to follow security issues that remain the responsibility...
Published in January 2014
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Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
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...
Published in January 2014