Alain Goulard
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The regulation of small scale water providers in Laos
The question of how to oversee initiatives such as regulation of Small-Scale Independent Provider without hampering their innovation potential has been studied by AFD and GRET through a common research and capitalisation program on the water sector. The present paper, which fits in this...
Published in December 2010
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Addressing Development Challenges in Emerging Asia: A Strategic Review of the AFD-ADB Partnership
After some seven years of collaboration under the 2003 MoU, AFD and ADB agreed to carry out a strategic review of their partnership. The overall objectives of the review have been threefold: (i) review of the AFD-ADB partnership, both at the institutional and operational levels, and its...
Published in October 2010
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Local Government in Palestine
While the international community and the parties involved in the Israeli-Arab and Israeli-Palestinian conflict have focused their attention on the construction of a Palestinian state for nearly two decades, this report examines the system of local government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The...
Published in October 2010
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Urban Development in Vietnam: the Rise of Local Authorities Resources, limits, and evolution of local governance
Local authorities are playing an increasingly influential role in the exponential economic growth and development of Vietnam and its cities. They have now become key actors playing pivotal roles in the delivery of most public urban services (water, sanitation, waste management, public transport,...
Published in October 2010
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Developing Lower Secondary Education: a Rural Issue and Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa
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...
Published in October 2010
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Operating in Fragile States - Lessons from Experience
There are several approaches to fragile states. The first, based on the crisis cycle, distinguishes between deteriorating countries, countries in prolonged crisis, countries emerging from crisis, and countries showing gradual improvement. The second, advocated by the United Kingdom’s Department...
Published in October 2010
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Private Sector Participation in the Indian Power
In September 2005, AFD’s Research Department launched a Research Program on Public Private Partnerships with an approach combining economic analysis (contractual incentives, financing of investment, etc.) with a sociological and political approach to regulatory issues. Various case studies have...
Published in August 2010
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Soweto Water Project | 2005 - 2010 | A filmed evaluation
The Operation "Gcin'amanzi" (Zulu for "water conservation") in Soweto is one of the country's most ambitious water-related projects. In post-apartheid South Africa the project was essential. Since the fall of the segregationist regime the country has been forging its new identity, navigating...
Published in June 2010
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The Global Discourse on “Participation” and its Emergence in Biodiversity Protection
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,...
Published in May 2010
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Linking Labour Organisation and Vocational Training in Uganda: lessons for rural poverty reduction
This study examines the conditions for effective skills development to reduce rural poverty in Uganda. It is shown that the capacity of the vocational education and training system, despite its ongoing reform, is inadequate to reach the rural poor. An assessment of the relevant policies calls for a...
Published in May 2010
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Gender disparities in Africa‘s labor market
Gender Disparities in Africa‘s Labor Market helps to fill the knowledge gap and identify the links between gender disparities and poverty reduction. The work was implemented in collaboration with a range of poverty and labor market studies to maximize its usefulness for policy dialogue in...
Published in January 2010
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Africa's Infrastructure : A Time for Transformation
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...
Published in January 2010
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Community Participation Beyond Idealisation and Demonisation: Biodiversity Protection in Soufrière, St. Lucia
The Soufrière Maritime Management Association is one of the best-known examples of "participatory environmental planning" in the southern hemisphere. Created in 1994 after more than three years of intensive stakeholder consultation and negotiation, involving resource users, governmental and non...
Published in January 2010
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Assessing the Effects of Health Insurance: The SKY Micro-Insurance Program in Rural Cambodia
When people experience a major health shock, their medical expenses typically rise and their contribution to household income and production (cooking, childcare, etc.) declines (Wagstaff and Doorslaer, 2003; Gertler, Levine & Moretti, 2003; Gertler and Gruber, 2002). According to the WHO, “Each...
Published in January 2010
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Institutional Profiles Database III - Presentation of the Institutional Profiles Database 2009 (IPD 2009)
This document presents an overview of the Institutional Profiles Database (IPD) 2009. The IPD offers researchers a quantitative evaluation of the institutional characteristics of 123 countries covering 99% of global GDP and 96% of the world population. The database is oriented towards the...
Published in January 2010
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Community participation in the Pantanal, Brazil: containment games and learning processes
In this paper, we inquire into how “community participation” (CP) played out in the creation of the Pantanal Regional Park (PRP), a large-scale participatory initiative launched in 1998 in the Brazilian portion of the world’s largest wetland. This paper identifies the strategic significance of CP...
Published in January 2010
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Randomized Controlled Evaluation of SKY Health Insurance in Cambodia, Survey ProtocolRandomized Controlled Evaluation of SKY Health Insurance in Cambodia, Survey Protocol
This proposal describes an impact evaluation of the SKY Health Insurance Program in Cambodia. The origins of SKY (Sokapheap Krousar Yeung, “Health for Our Families”) lie in a microfinance program launched by Groupe d'échange et de recherche technologiques (GRET) in Cambodia in 1991. Observing that...
Published in January 2010