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Market research on co-living affordable housing solution in Gauteng, South Africa (Part two)
Respublica, a leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in South Africa and partner of Proparco, aims at developing co-living affordable housing solutions for young professionals...
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Teacher training based on the results of research on their actual practices in the context of Sub-Saharan Afri...
The OPERA project (Observation des pratiques enseignantes dans leur rapport avec les apprentissages des élèves / Diagnosis of Teacher Practices in Relation with Learning) started on the basis of obser...
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Fiscal Consolidation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Unequal Effects on Children’s Health
New research reveals that policies of fiscal consolidation (public spending cuts and/or tax rises) in sub-Saharan African countries are, on average, associated with higher infant mortality: the estima...
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Hard Times for Developing Countries: Africa’s Financing Needs in Question
Semestrial Panoramas are special issues of the MacroDev series written by AFD analysts; They present a synthesis of macronomic et socioeconomic analyses of emerging and developing countries. In additi...
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Spatial inequality through the prism of a pandemic: Covid-19 in South Africa
While the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic made everyone feel very vulnerable, the pandemic has made manifest the significant gaps between individuals in terms of exposure and in terms of the ca...
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From definition to measurement: Constructing a social cohesion index for South Africa
Social cohesion has increasingly become a subject of interest for international organisations, governments, policy-makers and other practitioners. Whilst social cohesion is not a new concept, finding...
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Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Uptake, Reliability, and Complementary Factors for Economic Impact
Access to reliable electricity is the backbone of any modern economy. It is even more important with the digital revolution. If African nations want to see their economies transform, the issue of elec...
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Migration in post-apartheid South Africa: challenges and questions to policy-makers
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Aligned pooled funds for education in Africa: principles, implementation and country case studies
Aligned Pooled Funds for Education represent an innovative and coordinated financing approach designed to enhance the effectiveness of education systems in contexts where international aid is fragment...
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Africa - 10 flagship energy access project
Access to reliable, sustainable, and affordable electricity is a key driver of economic and social development. Despite significant progress in recent years, universal access to electricity across the...
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Socioeconomic and spatially-explicit assessment of Nature-related risks: the case of South Africa
This study introduces new methods for evaluating nature-related socioeconomic risks in the South African context, anchored on two main contributions. Firstly, it embarks on a multidimensional analysis...
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Evaluation Summary - Mombasa Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project (Mombasa WaSSIP), Kenya
In Kenya, for the water and sanitation sector, the sovereign loan to support the Mombasa water and sanitation service improvement project was subject to an evaluation in 2019. At the project incept...
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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in the Middle East and North Africa Area
During the nineties, the globalization of telecommunications imposed a model of development based on the suppression of public monopolies, leading to international competition and the privatization of...
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Evaluation Summary - Sere Wind Farm Project – Eskom
In South Africa, for the “Wind power” sector, Eskom’s Sere Wind Farm project was subject to an evaluation in December 2017. Climate change has launched a quest for sustainable development, which Es...
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The choice of arabo-islamic education in sub-Saharan Africa: findings from a comparative study
While it is a central issue for most sub-Saharan African countries, quantification and qualification of the Arabo-Islamic education choice appear particularly poorly documented. After an inventory of...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Competitiveness for SMEs in Developing Countries: South Africa and Vietnam
Les PME sont souvent accusées de traîner pour mettre en place des pratiques de RSE. Pourtant, cette perception résulte plus d'une application d'un mode de pensée propre aux grandes entreprises. Cette...
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AFD and GLOBE to promote cultural and creative industries in Africa
AFD works with a diverse range of actors in the field, including small CSOs. AFD supports them in their financing but also in the development of their structuring. This is the case, for example, of t...
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Africa’s mining potential: Current landscape, opportunities, and challenges
Mining activity sparks both fantasies and, at times, criticism, particularly among funders and traditional international cooperation actors. By its very nature, any extractive activity is unsustainabl...
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Analysis of Multidimensional Inequalities in West Africa and a Strategy for Inequality Reduction
With the Multidimensional Inequality Framework and the capabilities approach as its theoretical underpinning, this research shows that strong similarities in the expressions of inequalities exist in d...
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AFD in Eastern Africa: Partnering for the rural territories
Does your country or institution wish to promote productive #rural areas that are respectful of nature ? You need a partner who shares the same objectives for those rural areas: ✔Supporting and a...
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