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Urban land-based commons for housing in the Global South
This research project focused on collective arrangements for access to land and housing in developing cities that are linked with the concept of commons. It studied the implementation of some collecti...
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SDG Prospector – Mobilizing artificial intelligence to achieve the 2030 Agenda
Faced with major social and environmental transitions, an increasing number of companies and institutions are called upon to account for the extra-financial impacts of their activities. The SDG Prospe...
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ENGULF – Assessing exposure to relative sea-level rise along the Gulf of Guinea
The coastline of the Gulf of Guinea is lowly elevated and particularly vulnerable to sea level rise triggered by climate change. However, in some places, another important factor has to be taken into...
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Measuring the environmental sustainability of Kenya and Vietnam: application of the ESGAP framework
As part of the ECOPRONAT research program, AFD is developing methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability of a territory, to contribute to the structuring of international standards defini...
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Understanding the impact of human capital on the development of secondary cities in Côte d'Ivoire
The integration of young people into the labour market is a challenge for Côte d'Ivoire, in a context of strong population growth. AFD is working with the Centre de recherche microéconomique du dévelo...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Households and Firms in the MENA Region
What is the short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on households and firms behaviour in the Middle East and North Africa? A research partnership between AFD and the Economic Research Forum (ERF) p...
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Clermont International Development Hub: strengthening and expanding a regional hub of expertise in internation...
This project aims to strengthen skills and synergies in a regional centre of expertise in international development, located in the city of Clermont-Ferrand (France), and its international outreach. T...
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Genealogy and analysis of discourses on the relationship between gender and climate
Climate change and gender equality—understood as equality between women and men—have become central to the strategies of development actors. This research project examines how these actors incorporate...
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Understanding Arabo-Islamic Education in the Sahel
Arab-Islamic education in the Sahel remains poorly understood, despite being a key component for grasping and managing the region’s education systems. This research project, entrusted to IRD, aims to...
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Evaluation of Budget Support to Ghana
This multi-donor evaluation makes it possible to assess 10 years of assistance to Ghana in the form of budget support. It concludes that, despite much progress made, the outcomes proved to be disappoi...
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Evaluation of 10 Year’s of Development Assistance from France to Vietnam
This country evaluation was conducted at the request of the three main French actors of development assistance: the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), the Directorate-General of the French...
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Evaluating 15 years of support for development of rural territories in sub-Saharan Africa
The evaluation covered support projects for local development, decentralization, and development of rural territories in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar carried out over the last 15 years.
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Economic, social and regional inequalities in Tunisia
This research project examines inequalities in Tunisia, in order to provide a more in-depth description and analysis of them in their various forms. In particular, it explores the determinants of the...
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Understanding the role of taxation in the fight against inequalities
Via their tax component and their component of transfers and public expenditure, budget policies are a crucial instrument for governments in their fight against inequalities. This research project see...
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Impact of affordable housing on inequalities in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town - South Africa
This study deals with the new forms of affordable housing and public housing in South African cities. The objective? To determine whether these projects help reduce economic inequalities and encourage...
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Urban inequalities within Jordan cities hosting refugees
This study analyzes trends in inequalities between 2010 and 2016 in the two main Jordanian cities hosting Syrian refugees: 194,000 Syrians in Amman and 140,000 in Irbid, according to 2018 data of the...
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Agroecology public policies and income inequalities in rural regions in Senegal
The goal of agroecological intensification is to increase productivity while avoiding the adverse environmental effects of mechanized conventional agriculture that uses chemical inputs. In order to ca...
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Understanding the dynamics of the earnings distribution in South Africa
Despite a democratic governance, well-established judicial, financial and human rights institutions and a positive policy framework, poverty and inequality are still largely cast along historical line...
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Inequalities in urban water services in La Paz and El Alto - Bolivia
Inequalities in urban water services are often perceived simplistically, according to a binary interpretation of “access/non-access,” with an end goal of making access to this public service universal...
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Analyzing inequalities from the perspective of health, education, and employment trajectories in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has enjoyed relatively strong economic growth throughout the past ten years (more than 5% per year on average). Nevertheless, a non-negligible portion of the country’s population lives be...
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