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PEFA Methodology and Sub-National Governments: What Lessons for AFD?
The analysis of the application of the PEFA framework methodology to sub-national entities, developed here through the examination of 56 evaluation reports, and based on the practical experience of te...
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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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When Can Work Performed by Women Become a Factor in Their Empowerment? - Women‘s access to quality employment ...
The employment of women in Morocco, Tunisia and Türkiye is not necessarily equated with financial, social and/or political empowerment. Though the three countries share striking similarities as regard...
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Cocoa farmers’ agricultural practices and livelihoods in Côte d’Ivoire
Cocoa production in Côte d‘Ivoire has more than doubled over the last four decades, from 565 thousand tons in 1984 to approximatively 1.5 million tons in recent years. This increase has been mainly du...
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Urban fabric initiative: a laboratory for citizen participation
The urban fabric initiative brings out and supports small or temporary micro-projects, carried by the inhabitants and quickly implemented, on the sites of urban projects financed in parallel by the Ag...
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Minka CAR Initiative
The Central African Republic (CAR) is experiencing a situation of chronic conflict, with militant activity by armed groups spreading over a large swath of the country, including violent attacks agains...
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Drinking water for everyone, everywhere at Kinshasa
As part of the Debt Reduction and Development Contract (C2D) signed between France and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), AFD granted in May 2014 a grant of €18 million to finance the project for...
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Reducing Inequalities: Insights from the EU-AFD Research Facility
In this summary, find more information about the lessons learned, tools, and partnerships developed within the framework of the EU-AFD Facility for Research on Inequalities between 2020 and 2025.
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Holding Land in Common within Cities
In the Global South, access to decent housing and secure land tenure remains a great challenge for most urban dwellers. Yet secure land tenure is a key component of urban resilience. This paper summar...
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Challenges in Sanitation
Among the essential public utilities, sanitation and wastewater services present forms of organization and management that have contributed to make it low on the agenda of policy makers when it comes...
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Sahel Alliance: Arafa
Inclusive economic and social recovery around Lake Chad (RESILAC) Like Arafa, 3 million people had to flee their homes because of the security crisis in the Lake Chad region. As part of the Sahel A...
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WWF and AFD, a technical and strategic partnership
AFD works with a diverse range of actors in the field, including French CSOs of international stature. AFD and WWF France have been partners for a long time, both through the financing of numerous pr...
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Panorama of worldwide Climate and Nature solutions: supporting low-carbon, resilient and nature-positive transitions
This new edition of the World Tour of Climate Solutions presents a sample of projects, offering concrete and inspiring responses, financed by AFD Group. This collection invites you to discover a sel...
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Minka Sahel Initiative
The security, humanitarian, and sociopolitical situation in the Sahel has continued to deteriorate since the 2012 crisis in Mali, with a significant increase in conflict hotspots. More than one millio...
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Operating in Fragile States - Lessons from Experience
There are several approaches to fragile states. The first, based on the crisis cycle, distinguishes between deteriorating countries, countries in prolonged crisis, countries emerging from crisis, and...
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Support to local socio-economic revitalisation in cities undergoing crisis
AFD is regularly called upon to support urban development projects in areas recovering from crises, be they natural or political. Above and beyond the simple reconstruction of buildings, such requests...
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Creating Alliances to Accelerate Commercially Viable Sanitation - Lessons learned from the toilet board coalit...
The past decades have seen a growing appreciation of the role of market-based approaches in driving global development. Many coalitions of public and private players have emerged to promote them. How...
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History of evaluation : Conservation Trust Funds
As the pressure on natural environments continues to increase, mobilising funding for biodiversity conservation is a major challenge. In this context, Conservation Trust Funds are important tools for...
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Catherine Simonet and Camille Laporte: the importance of evaluating the Minka fund
In the face of increasingly complex crisis, development gains are under threat. In response, France has created a financing tool dedicated to peacebuilding: the Minka Fund. Five years after its launch...
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