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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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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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Urban Development and Support for Local Authorities - 2021 Activity Report
AFD provides cities with support for taking up the challenges of urban growth, social and territorial inequalities, and vulnerability of urban areas. It promotes sustainable cities as a process of des...
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First Out, Last In amid COVID-19: Employment Vulnerability of Youths in the Middle East
This study estimates the impacts of the evolving COVID-19 crisis on the trends in workers’ employment outcomes in Egypt and Jordan. Using panel microdata from ERF COVID-19 MENA Monitors, waves 1–5 (Ju...
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Resilience in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons Learned from MENA SMEs
We investigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in four non-oil-exporting MENA countries (Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt). Using data from a recen...
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2021 Universal Registration Document
Eighty years after its creation by General de Gaulle on 2 December 1941, the AFD Group continues its relentless quest for impact. It is in this spirit that AFD, guided by the 2030 Agenda of the United...
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Women and Youth labor market outcomes during Covid19: evidence from Egypt and Jordan
In response to the onslaught of Covid-19, many countries introduced lockdowns and social distancing measures of varying stringency, with severe repercussions for labor market participants. Youth and f...
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Resilience in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons Learned from MENA SMEs
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent an important socioeconomic pillar that contributes to overall economic activity in many developing countries. The Covid-19 pandemic that emerged in...
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Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in the Time of COVID-19: Selected MENA Countries
COVID-19 is testing food and social protection systems in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at an unprecedented scale. Countries responded by expanding social safety nets (SSNs) and/or di...
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Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in MENA in the Time of COVID-19
A total of 52 million people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) were chronically undernourished in 2019. About eight million more were expected to fall into poverty and be food insecure in the...
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