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They Are Building the Africa of Today and Preparing the Africa of Tomorrow
Africa is at the heart of AFD Group's work. On such a youthful continent – where 60% of Africans are under the age of 24 years old – we must continue to find ways to generate positive, enduring change...
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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 th...
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Orients - 2021-2025 Regional Strategy
The “Orients” region stretches from the Balkans to Indonesia and harbours important challenges for international peace, and for the collective global transition towards low-carbon, economic and social...
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Precarisation or Protection? The Impact of Digital Platform Labour on Argentinean Domestic Workers in Times of...
The article analyses how the platform economy affects the domestic service sector, focusing particularly on the issue of workers’ formalisation. It looks at Zolvers, the only digital platform for dome...
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Gender inequalities in the platform economy: The cases of delivery and private passenger transport services in...
This article inspects how the expansion of the platform economy affects gender inequalities, in some new forms as well in reinforcing pre-existing ones. It focuses on two platform occupations in the B...
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Labour market trajectories and conciliation efforts among female Uber drivers
This article examines female Uber drivers’ labour trajectories, paying attention to the way in which gender-based occupational segregation is reproduced and/or challenged in the context of the platfor...
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Impacts of CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries
This article analyses the impact of the introduction of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on the European Union (EU) trade partners, focusing especially on its potential socio-economic and...
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Water and Sanitation: 2021 Activity Report
Water is central to the balance of ecosystems and societies and an essential factor for biodiversity, food security, health, gender equality – and even peace. Water resources are under pressure fro...
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Building Data Infrastructure in Development Contexts: Lessons from the #Data4COVID19 Africa Challenge
COVID-19 and other societal threats hamper the ability of development practitioners and stakeholders to address public needs. Bolstering society’s ability to responsibly access, re-use and generate in...
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Clean up Hann Bay in Senegal
Hann Bay, in Dakar, has reached an advanced state of degradation due to the direct discharge of industrial and domestic effluents. To deal with these environmental, economic and health issues, the Sen...
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Sunref Palestine: An AFD Group Green Finance label
Sunref, an AFD Group green finance label, helps economic actors in developing and emerging countries seize the opportunities offered by energy and environmental transitions and encourages local financ...
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India: a resilient, revitalised water supply for jodhpur
Jodhpur is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Located in the Thar Desert, the city is familiar with the challenges of water scarcity. Reservoirs and stepwells dating back to the...
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Conflict prediction using Kernel density estimation
Being able to assess conflict risk at local level is crucial for preventing political violence or mitigating its consequences. This paper develops a new approach for predicting the timing and location...
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The moroccan forest, an exceptional jewel to protect
Morocco’s varied landscapes and geomorphology make it one of the richest Mediterranean countries in terms of biodiversity. Spread over 9 million hectares, the Moroccan forest is akin to the beating h...
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Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Trade: An Empirical Analysis
The paper proposes an empirical analysis of the determinants of the adoption of intellectual property rights (IPR) and their impact on innovation in manufacturing. The analysis is conducted with panel...
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Overcoming Institutional and Organisational Barriers to Sanitation: What's New?
This technical report focuses on how to overcome institutional and organisational barriers to the development of sanitation. It compiles communications from researchers and operational staff on work t...
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Measuring the impact of development projects using geospatial impact evaluation methods
Geospatial impact evaluation (GIE) methods were developed because of the increasing availability of geospatial data. They are particularly suited to evaluating the impact of development aid programmes...
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The middle class in Argentina: dynamics, characteristics and implications for public policies
Argentina is generally considered as the typical middle-class country in Latin America. Yet, while the successive crises that have hit the Argentinean economy over the four last decades have obviously...
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Infographic - Our activity in favor of Gender equality 2023
Often the cause of injustice and factors in poverty, gender inequalities hold back the sustainable development of societies, politically, economically and socially. That’s why AFD mainstreams gende...
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Nature & Biodiversity - Activity report 2023
In 2023, the Group continued its work on aligning its operations with this the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF). In particular, the Group has developed a nature-friendly approach...
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