Alain Goulard
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Consulted
45
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Interventions in Contexts of Armed Conflict
Recent experience shows that development projects must avoid various pitfalls when working to stabilize conflict zones. Mediation, reintegration, and negotiation projects must not neglect political motivations or the impacts of solidarity amongst factions. Actions conducted locally must be...
Published in November 2023
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Universalizing and accelerating electricity access over the next decade through Public Service Delegation (PSD)
Widely used in the water sector, which is also unprofitable in contexts similar to those prevailing in regions not yet electrified, the Public Service Delegation (PSD) offers a solid regulatory and financial framework that balances Government needs on one side, and greater visibility for private...
Published in July 2023
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203
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National Public Development Banks (PDBs): Key Actors Financing Water and Sanitation
Today, more than 2 billion people still do not have access to safe drinking water, and more than 3.6 billion people do not have access to sanitation. In many countries, climate change is increasing the risks related to the water cycle; at the same time, the quantitative and qualitative pressure...
Published in March 2022
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145
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Including agricultural water management in the governance and sustainable development of rural territories
The sustainable development of a territory depends on the capacity of its actors to define, plan and finance actions that are part of a strategic vision promoted by a local authority and a locally legitimised institution. Establishing or strengthening inclusive territorial governance mechanisms...
Published in February 2022
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55
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Making abortion safer: a vital necessity
One-third of the 200 million pregnancies per year are un- wanted. These are closely linked to difficulties in acces-sing sex education and effective contraceptive methods. Unwanted pregnancies are a public-health issue: one- quarter of them result in unsafe abortion, often with medical...
Published in November 2021
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Incorporating biodiversity into development trajectories
In recent seminal studies for France and the Netherlands, biodiversity has been proven a significant source of financial vulnerability, both in terms of potential physical impacts, dependence to ecosystem services and in the face of future tighter protection policies.
Applying similar...
Published in September 2021
Ressource
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Continuous water supply: a decisive factor in the fight against cholera
Around 2.4 billion cases of diarrhoeal disease were recorded globally in 2015, causing approximately 500,000 deaths among children under five. Over 60% of these deaths were attributed to poor access to water and sani-tation. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease which, if left untreated, can...
Published on 06 Sep 2021
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38
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The crisis of affordable housing in Jordan
> Jordan is in the throes of a property crisis: following a construction boom, sales have now collapsed and housing is ill-adapted to demand,
> 18% of the housing stock is kept vacant in anticipation of speculative sales,
> Jordan hosts 750,000 refugees registered with...
Published in May 2021
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56
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Affordable housing, a social challenge amidst Lebanese crises
Since 2019, Lebanon has been experiencing the worst financial and economic disaster in its history. The explosion on 4 August 2020 affected many of the capital’s residential buildings. With over half of the country’s 6 million residents living under the poverty line, these crises reinforce the...
Published in May 2021
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58
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Preventing the Deterioration and Overexploitation of Groundwater
The deterioration and overexploitation of groundwater at the global scale is leading to a dramatic rise of local problems.
Private pumping for irrigation purposes has become established in poorly regulated contexts, with agriculture as the main sector responsible for this situation....
Published in December 2020
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93
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Emerging Use of Technologies for Development
With only 10 years left in the 2030 Agenda, development practitioners need to innovate how they make decisions and solve problems. Such innovations can be enabled by intelligences, born from innovative uses of new technology. Although technology poses certain risks, evidence now shows that under...
Published in October 2020
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44
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Central banks at the heart of ecological reconstruction
Faced with the pandemic crisis and its economic and financial consequences in the short and medium term, central banks found themselves in the position of guardians of chaos. They thus acted quickly and massively to avoid the potentially dramatic consequences of a sudden shutdown of a large...
Published in October 2020
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Innovation towards the Access to Essential Therapeutic Products
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Using Carbon Revenues
In 2019, 42% of the aggregate carbon revenue was channeled to the general state budget, 47% was allocated to environmental or broader projects, 5% went to tax cuts and 6% to direct transfers to families or businesses.
Countries that have successfully implemented carbon pricing have...
Published in January 2020