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Evaluation Summary - Siem Reap/Angkor Urban development project, Cambodia
In Cambodia, the Siem Reap/Angkor urban development project was subject to an evaluation in May 2014. Siem Reap is the second economic center of Cambodia and has to cope with increasing tourist pre...
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Retrospective Evaluation of the Interventions in the Irrigation Sector
This evaluation was completed between August 2017 and July 2019 by the Hydroconseil-Agriate Consortium. The AFD’s Evaluation and Learning Department (EVA: Evaluation et Apprentissage) was responsible...
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Using Carbon Revenues
In 2019, 42% of the aggregate carbon revenue was channeled to the general state budget, 47% was allocated to environmental or broader projects, 5% went to tax cuts and 6% to direct transfers to famili...
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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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Incubating innovative Audio-visual content
The Digital Content Hub is AFD’s first investment in the area of digital innovation in South Africa and reflects a new focus on financing cultural, creative and tech industries as key players in local...
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A single indicator of strong sustainability for development: Theoretical basis and practical implementation
This Scoping Paper discusses options and approaches for design of a single indicator of strong sustainability for development, in light of current proposals for sustainability indicators generally. It...
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Atlantic Ocean - 2019-2023 Regional Strategy
At the Interministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) on February 8, 2018, the French government made a commitment to strengthen the integration of overseas territori...
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Shaping sustainable urban development in india with CITIIS
The CITIIS program was launched by the government of India, AFD and the EU in 2018. Under this program, 12 Indian cities were selected to receive financial and technical assistance from AFD and the EU...
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Biodiversity under threath: how can we protect it?
As the Aichi 2010 targets come up for revision by the international community, the evaluation results outline potential answers to what works and does not work in the area of biodiversity protection,...
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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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Vulnerabilities to climate change in the French overseas territories and small island states
The Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Index (PVCCI) measures the vulnerability of small island territories to the impacts of climate change, whether periodic (cyclones, droughts) or progressive...
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World Development Report - WDR 2015 - Progress and Limits
The innovative World Bank Report Mind, Society, and Behavior (WDR 2015) offers great prospects, focusing on the way in which human beings act according to the meaning they give to situations in which...
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Are the Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa so Dependent on Food Imports?
Prevalent in discussions of food provision issues in Western and Central Africa is the idea that urban centres in Western and Central Africa are dependent on food imports, and that urbanization is acc...
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Sahelian youth: dynamics of exclusion, means of integration
For twenty years now, the Sahel region has been marked by rising insecurity, political crises, and poorly controlled flows of people, arms and illegal goods, with a major risk of States becoming desta...
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Safety Nets in Africa : Effective Mechanisms to Reach the Poor and Most Vulnerable
The need for safety nets in Sub-Saharan Africa is vast. In addition to being the world‘s poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa is also one of the most unequal. In this context, redistribution must be see...
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Shared Challenges for Development within ASEAN - Applied and Analytical Methods
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Global Development Network (GDN), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), University of Nantes, École...
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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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Ex Post Written and Audiovisual Evaluation of the Limpopo National Park Development Project
The Limpopo National Park (LNP) is one of the largest parks in Mozambique. It covers 11,230 km 2 (an area the size of Ile-de-France) and is part of a larger transfrontier park that encompasses the Kru...
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Vietnam: New "Workshop of the World"? Opportunities and Challenges
Following turbulence in 2012-2013, the Vietnamese economy seems to have recovered its momentum. Its growth rate was 6.7% in 2015 and is expected to stabilize at over 6% in 2016 despite the negative im...
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Rethinking Precarious Neighborhoods
On the occasion of the United Nations Habitat III Conference on cities, to take place in Quito (Ecuador) in October 2016, this research publication proposes an innovative reflection on precarious neig...
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