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Funds and facilities: a source of complementary financing
Whether for project preparation or to finance specific themes (such as conflict prevention or climate adaptation), Agence Française de Développement (AFD) manages or leverages funds and facilities tha...
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Measuring our concrete results
AFD will soon be launching an Impact Portal based on its new Results and Impact Framework (CRI). In 2025, AFD will become the first public development bank to provide full transparency in terms of imp...
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Macroeconomic modeling tools for an ecological transition
AFD has developed two quantitative modeling tools – the GEMMES and ESTEEM – models to analyse the macroeconomic dimensions of the ecological transition.
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European Neighborhood and Enlargement Regional Office
The European Neighborhood and Enlargement Regional Office covers a vast area extending from the Adriatic Sea to the Caspian Sea, characterized by socio-economic diversity and close geographical proxim...
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Rainfed Food Crops in West and Central Africa: Points for Analysis and Proposals for Action
The rise in world agricultural prices in 2008 revealed the fragility of food security in many developing countries. Poor populations in sub-Saharan Africa are the biggest victims of this fragility. Ra...
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Development Impact Evaluations - State of Play and New Challenges
Development impact evaluations, and randomised control trials (RCTs) in particular, have boomed since the early 2000s albeit with large differences in growth patterns from one donor to the next. These...
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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...
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Contract Farming in Developing Countries - A Review -
Contract farming can be defined as a firm providing farmers with particular “input” — such as seed, fertilizer, credit, extension — in exchange for exclusive purchasing rights over a specified crop. T...
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Toward a Joint Management of Transboundary Aquifer Systems
Aquifer systems, which can contain a major part of the accessible water resources of a country, are often imperfectly known. However, and much more commonly than transboundary rivers, many aquifers ar...
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Methods for the Economic Valuation of Urban Heritage: A Sustainability-based Approach
Today, development actors see urban heritage as a resource for their territory, which is why they need to define its economic value. This evaluation is a delicate exercise as such patrimony is general...
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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 aga...
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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...
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Social Differentiation and Inequalities - Methodological and Cross-cutting Approaches to Questions of Gender a...
The Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Nantes University, the École française d’Extrême-Ori...
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Water and Its Many Issues - Methods and Cross-cutting Analysis - Regional Social Sciences Summer University "T...
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), the University of Nantes, the École française d’Extrê...
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Mayotte
The youngest French department, Mayotte faces a range of challenges: supporting local authorities, developing infrastructure, and energizing the private sector, among others. AFD works alongside local...
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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...
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Learning for life and work : GEFOP contribution to the World Development Report 2007
GEFOP is a group of vocational training experts set up by the AFD. It brings together vocational training researchers, managers and practitioners from Europe, Africa and Asia, as well as training spec...
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Natural Capital and Sustainable Development in Africa
This paper underlines a paradox: although "pro-poor" development assistance policies pay little attention to natural capital, the fact is that such resources are of great practical importance for the...
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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 yea...
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Energie du Mali, or the paradoxes of a "resounding failure"
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...
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