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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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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Angola Field Survey
This report is part of a study carried out by the AFD Research Department on vocational training in the informal sector in seven African countries, which are, in alphabetical order, South Africa, Ango...
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Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the BENIN Field Survey
This report is part of a study carried out by the AFD Research Department on vocational training in the informal sector in seven African countries, which are, in alphabetical order, South Africa, Ango...
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L'économie africaine 2025: English version of Introduction & 1st Chapter
Since 2020, La Découverte and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have published an annual edition of L’Économie africaine, aiming to provide an accessible macroeconomic analysis of the Africa...
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The role of social housing in reducing inequality in South African cities
Social housing is a powerful tool to integrate divided cities by providing decent rental accommodation for low- and moderate-income working families. It can bring communities together in dense urban a...
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Evaluating 15 Years of Support for Development
This document is a summary of the final report of the external evaluation of 15 years of AFD and FFEM interventions related to “the development of rural territories or landscapes”3 in sub-Saharan Afri...
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Migrants, Markets, and Mayors
Research on migration and urban development in Africa has primarily focused on larger cities and rural-to-urban migration. However, 97 percent of Africa’s urban centers have fewer than 300,000 inhabit...
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The African Economy 2022
This issue of L’Économie africaine has been created by Éditions La Découverte and the Agence française de développement (AFD) (French Development Agency), who are continuing their collaboration for th...
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Social Contracts for Development
Sub-Saharan Africa has achieved significant gains in reducing the levels of extreme poverty in recent decades, yet the region continues to experience challenges across the development indicators, incl...
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Estimating the distributional incidence of healthcare spending on curative health services in Sub-Saharan Afri...
Sub-Saharan African countries have been experiencing a persistently high level of inequality in access to healthcare services. Following the global call to eliminate health inequalities worldwide, dif...
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AFD 2026 AI Pre-Summit Program
Building Bridges through AI: Fostering India-Africa-France Dialogue to Advance AI for the Common Good AI Impact Summit 2026 Pre-event hosted by the AFD Group at its Paris Headquarters 28 January 20...
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Measuring Local Inequality: Insights from Data on Night Lights
Data on human emissions of light at night – as detected by satellites – provide valuable insights into the extent of inequality at the local level. New research uses the latest generation of night lig...
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Open Data for Resilient Agriculture - Hackathon Accra 2019
AFD supports open data in order to share knowledge enriched by the multitude of contributors and to create digital commons that benefit everyone. The Internet and browsers constitute the most advanced...
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Evaluation Summary - NamPower Caprivi-Link Interconnector (CLI) project, Namibia
In Namibia, the NamPower Caprivi-Link Interconnector (CLI) project was subject to an evaluation in October 2014. To meet its electricity needs, Namibia relies on imports from thermal power stations i...
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AFD and Cameroon
Located at the crossroads of West and Central Africa, Cameroon has historically been one of AFD Group’s main countries of intervention. Most recently, AFD has supported Cameroon through major infrastr...
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AFD and Cameroon
Located at the crossroads of West and Central Africa, Cameroon has historically been one of AFD Group’s main countries of intervention. Most recently, AFD has supported Cameroon through major infrastr...
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Evaluation of AFD and FFEM contributions to biodiversity conservation trust funds (2005-2019)
This evaluation is the first of its kind and focuses on projects that targeted Conservation Trust Funds (CTFs) supported by AFD and FFEM. It provides a comparative analysis of eight CTFs in Africa, th...
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Combining Social Cohesion and Resilience: The Experience of African Cities
Although today Africa has a low level of urbanisation, high demographic growth coupled with an ongoing rural exodus is now driving the highest urban growth rate in the world. The number of city dwelle...
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AFD Group and the Gambia
The Republic of the Gambia is the smallest country of continental Africa and one of the priority countries for French development assistance. The country carries a heavy public debt as well as many ch...
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Securing pastoral mobility in Sahel
Pastoralism has long been regarded as archaic, but recent research shows that pastoral systems can effectively exploit the characteristic instability of dryland ecosystems and make productive use of t...
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