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North Africa - 2021-2025 Regional Strategy
Set up in September 2019, the North Africa Regional Office covers five countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. This strategy aims to position AFD Group’s action as a support for buildin...
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Covid-19 response: supporting front-line laboratories in southeast Asia
To support national reference laboratories in Southeast Asia in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, AFD has granted additional financing of €2M to the ECOMORE II project implemented by the Institut Pas...
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South Asia - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy
AFD Group’s priorities in South Asia over the coming years are part of the French strategy for the Indo-Pacific and res¬pond to the region’s climate-related, environmental and social challenges. They...
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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...
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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 antici...
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AFD and the Protection of Biodiversity in China
China has adopted an ambitious strategy and action plan to preserve its biodiversity. AFD is supporting this policy by funding sustainable development and ecological transition programs for territorie...
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Digital Energy Challenge - 2021 Call for Projects
Digitalization is key to increasing energy access, integrating renewable energy sources into the grid and improving the performance of power utilities, especially in developing countries. Public utili...
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AFD Group - 2020 Results
AFD Group’s commitments surpassed €12 billion in 2020, even amidst the devastating Covid-19 crisis. And the Group fast-tracked procedures to meet the urgent health and social needs of its clients in 2...
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Ex-post evaluation of the impacts of the tramway systems of Casablanca and Rabat-Salé – 2020
Commissioned by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD, French Development Agency), Casa Transports, and the Société du Tramway de Rabat Salé (STRS, Rabat-Salé Tramway Company), the present evalua...
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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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Beirut: a healthcare center for the disadvantaged
In a context of deterioration of the Lebanese health system, AFD, trough Minka Peace and resilience fund, has decided to intervene to ensure the provision of quality and sustainable health care to Leb...
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Climate - 2021 Activity Report
Climate change and biodiversity loss could jeopardize efforts to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Capping the rise in global temperatures to below 2°C – or even to 1.5 °C if p...
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Sahel - 2021 Activity Report
Development in the Greater Sahel region (Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad) is marked by contrasts. The wide range of issues require a collective...
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