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Covid-19: Preparing for the Pandemic in Africa
Agence Française de Développement has provided investment funding to help shore up and improve the infrastructure and capacity of institutions across East and West Africa. It’s part of a growing effor...
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Covid-19 in Rwanda: Delivering Drugs by Drone
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. Imaginative modes of transport are being harnessed to transport vital medicin...
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The Social & Inclusive Business Camp Supports Entrepreneurs across Africa to address the Covid-19 Crisis
After being imagined and incubated by the AFD Campus du Développement, the SIBC will be piloted over the next three years by I&P Conseil and its partners - African Management Institute, ScaleChanger a...
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AFD's Response to the Covid-19 Crisis
A worldwide health and economic emergency has emerged from the coronavirus pandemic. Since March, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has been working to provide a multi-pronged response. It is tr...
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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 in...
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The Integration of Food Aid Programmes in Niger‘s Development Policies: the 2004-2005 Food Crisis
The 2004-2005 food crisis was doubled by a politicoinstitutional crisis that bears witness to the lack of coordination among the various players‘ programmes and raises the following question: what mal...
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Sectoral aid in practice
Since the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, developing countries and donors have increasingly favoured the development of sectoral aid, which represents a substantially different approach from t...
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The forest sector in countries of the Congo Basin: 20 years of AFD Intervention
The concept of sustainable forest management emerged at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992. It entails the conservation and enhancement, for the welfare of present and future generations, of the eco...
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Going Beyond Adverse Selection: Take-up of a Health Insurance Program in Rural Cambodia
Standard insurance theory predicts that households that anticipate high insurance costs are those that are willing to purchase health insurance (adverse selection). However, there are also several oth...
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Insuring Health or Insuring Wealth? An experimental evaluation of health insurance in rural Cambodia
High health care expenditures following a health shock can lead to long-term economic consequences. Health insurance has the potential to avert economic difficulties following health shocks. If uninsu...
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SKY Impact Evaluation Cambodia, 2010 Village Monographs
The SKY health microinsurance programme, run by the GRET is an innovative attempt to extend health insurance to Cambodians, with special initiatives reaching out to both the rural and urban poor. The...
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Adverse selection based on observable and unobservable factors in health insurance in rural Cambodia
High health care expenditures following a health shock can have long-term economic consequences. Health insurance has the potential to avert economic difficulties following health shocks, increase hea...
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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...
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Fostering Impact Evaluation at the Agence Française de Développement: a process of building in-house ownership...
In 2006, the Evaluation Unit of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) was incorporated into the Research Department in order to integrate a research strand into the work of evaluation. This new...
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Access to Water and Militant Uses of the Law - A Case Study in Soweto
At the end of apartheid, in 1994, hopes for political, economic and social renewal are emerging in South Africa. Among the preoccupations of the new ANC government: wipe out inequalities and generaliz...
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Energy Efficiency Retrofitting of Buildings Challenges and Methods. Research Program in Hubei Province, China
Energy efficiency retrofitting of existing buildings was long ignored by public authorities who favored energy efficiency policies in new buildings, which are easier to implement. It has now become in...
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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 d...
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The environmental challenges faced by a Chinese oil company in Chad
The surge in Chinese investments in Africa has brought about a flurry of questions expressing concern over their ecological impact in the host countries. Still, the principles and implementation of en...
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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...
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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 t...
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