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Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has just experienced one of the best decades of growth since the 1960s. Between 2000 and 2012, gross domestic product (GDP) grew more than 4.5 percent a year on average, compared to...
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Social Differentiation and Inequalities - Methodological and Cross-cutting Approaches to Questions of Gender a...
The Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Nantes University, the École française d’Extrême-Ori...
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Water and Its Many Issues - Methods and Cross-cutting Analysis - Regional Social Sciences Summer University "T...
The Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), the University of Nantes, the École française d’Extrê...
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Mayotte
The youngest French department, Mayotte faces a range of challenges: supporting local authorities, developing infrastructure, and energizing the private sector, among others. AFD works alongside local...
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The Perception and Management of Risk - Applied Methodological Approaches to Development
This work contains a verbatim account of the presentations and debates from the plenary sessions and workshops that took place from 19th to 27th July 2013 at the University of Đà Lạt on the topic of...
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Learning for life and work : GEFOP contribution to the World Development Report 2007
GEFOP is a group of vocational training experts set up by the AFD. It brings together vocational training researchers, managers and practitioners from Europe, Africa and Asia, as well as training spec...
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Natural Capital and Sustainable Development in Africa
This paper underlines a paradox: although "pro-poor" development assistance policies pay little attention to natural capital, the fact is that such resources are of great practical importance for the...
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Developing Lower Secondary Education: a Rural Issue and Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa
The current development of African education systems focuses on the perspective of universal completion of six years of schooling. This perspective, targeted by the international community for the yea...
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Energie du Mali, or the paradoxes of a "resounding failure"
It is generally agreed the last public-private partnership in which EDM was engaged, from 2000 to 2005, was a "resounding failure": international donors, professionals, and the totality of the Malian...
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Institutions, Development and Poverty
This paper explores the relationships between institutions, growth and poverty, presenting the multiplicity of the causal links connecting these three terms. There is currently a consensus that instit...
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AFD and its Partners - The Cultural Dimension
A development agency operating in a large number of countries and territories is faced with great cultural diversity. There are, of course, universal or almost universal expectations towards it. They...
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Keeping AFD Group’s promise
The French Programming Act of 2021 on Inclusive Development and Combating Global Inequalities has made AFD Group a unique player in the development finance ecosystem. AFD Group’s three funding arms –...
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Raising awareness and training employees
Since 2004, AFD Group has developed and implemented a corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach that applies both to its internal operations and to its financing activities. AFD Group is committe...
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2023 evaluations report
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2022 activity and corporate social responsibility report
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AFD Group 2019-2020 Annual Results
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Supporting BDMG in financing public climate
By deploying an innovative financing offer aimed at municipalities, the Development Bank of Minas Gerais (BDMG) supports the development of sustainable cities that combine social cohesion, economic pe...
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Supporting the transformation of BRDE’s financing strategy
The Regional Development Bank of the Far South (BRDE) is strengthening its transformation into a sustainable development bank with the support of AFD. A total financing package of €70.5 million (loan...
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French Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
AFD Group offers French civil society organizations (CSOs) a range of tools and mechanisms to support their work. Every year, we issue a call for projects and expressions of intent to co-finance devel...
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Supporting BRDE’s strategy for financing SDG-oriented projects
By strengthening its financing offer for green and sustainable projects, the Regional Development Bank of the Far South (BRDE) supports investments with a positive impact on the Sustainable Developmen...
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