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An oasis in the desert
Marsabit forest, a natural space surrounded by desert, covers an area of over 16,000 hectares. This region in the North of Kenya hosts a core resource for neighboring communities and significant biodi...
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Climate: the double life of wastewater
In Tunisia, climate change is likely to exacerbate an already critical situation of water stress. While demand is growing, Water is becoming scarce. Following the Paris Climate Agreement, AFD has l...
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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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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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Sahel Alliance: HAWA and AMADOU
Social assistance and climate resilience programme in Mauritania In Mauritania, a TEKAVOUL social protection system allows families to keep children in school. It is a support and a regular payment...
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Sahel Alliance: Ari
Preventing youth exclusion in the Diffa region - Niger Because of the insecurity in Niger, many young people like Ari have lost their jobs. To face this problem, we support a project of professiona...
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Sahel Alliance: Hassane
Support for justice and security in Niger (AJUSEN) In a difficult security context in Niger, it is essential to help the judicial system function effectively. That’s why with European Union, we sup...
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AFD and Mozambique
Present in the country since 1981, AFD is a long-term partner of Mozambique. For nearly 40 years, AFD has continuously supported the country in its efforts to improve basic infrastructure, preserve bi...
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AFD and Nigeria
AFD began its activities in Nigeria 12 years ago and is now one of the country’s rightful partners. Its unique position as a bilateral lender for varied financing solutions enables it to contribute no...
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A Poverty Forecasting Tool
Poverty reduction has become the focus of economic policy in many Sub-Saharan African countries. As a result, a need for new social indicators has arisen to monitor the application and effectiveness o...
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The investment climate in Egypt: Institutions or Relationships as Conditions for Sustainable Reform?
Observations made here show that it is possible to improve the investment climate, achieve effective cooperation between private investors and political decision-makers, fight against corruption and m...
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Poverty, Inequality and Growth Proceeding of the AFD-EUDN Conference 2003
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Linking Labour Organisation and Vocational Training in Uganda: lessons for rural poverty reduction
This study examines the conditions for effective skills development to reduce rural poverty in Uganda. It is shown that the capacity of the vocational education and training system, despite its ongoin...
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Poverty, Access to Credit and the Determinants of Participation in a New Micro-credit Program in Rural Areas o...
This paper describes the economic living conditions of the population in dispersed rural areas of Morocco and analyses their response to the introduction of a new micro-credit program. The first secti...
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Inspiring children and uplifting the city through sports
The city centre of Johannesburg, historically the heart of the city's economic activity, has seen a sharp decline since the 1970s: many buildings were abandoned, public spaces were left in decline and...
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Evaluation Summary - Rural roads improvement project in Central Kenya
The Rural roads improvement project in Central Kenya was subject to an evaluation in November 2016, for the “Road transport” sector. The project was formulated under Kenya’s Roads 2000 Road Mainten...
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Evaluation Summary - District development facility (DDF), Ghana
In Ghana, the District development facility project (DDF) was subject to an evaluation in September 2015. Access to funds by the Metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) for implemen...
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Evaluation Summary - Small towns water supply and sanitation project (STWSSP), Tanzania
In Tanzania, the Small towns water supply and sanitation project (STWSSP) was subject to an evaluation in December 2014. The project was implemented to help fulfill the need for further decentraliz...
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Sanitation for all in Djibouti
The city of Djibouti is home to 75 % of the total population of the eponymous country. Increasing urbanization has led to the explosion of the Balbala district. The result is a disorganized urban fab...
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Ex-post evaluation of the Kisumu Urban Project (KUP), Kenya
The project (CKE1035) aimed at structurally improving both the management and the quality of life in the city, through soft (ex: capacity building, urban planning…) and hard investments (ex: infrastru...
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