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Ghana: The challenges of growth faced with increasing imbalances
Ghana, West Africa’s second largest economy, has been particularly adept over the last decade at consolidating its democracy and bolstering its growth regime. Despite the financial crisis, the country...
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Knowledge production at AFD
AFD has a dual mandate of financing sustainable and shared development and producing knowledge. The second strand of its mission is now more necessary than ever before. It needs to find responses to t...
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Water services and the private sector in developing countries. Comparative perceptions and discussion dynamics
During the past twenty years, participation of the private sector in the field of essential services has been a topic of much discussion, allowing the expression of very different viewpoints and the m...
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A Glance at Sustainable Urban Development - Methodological, Crosscutting and Operational Approaches
This work contains a verbatim account of the presentations and debates from the plenary sessions and workshops that took place from 21th to 29th July 2014 at the University of Da Lat on the topic of "...
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Analysis, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Contributions to Social Change - Meaningfully measuring international ...
There are many actors in the field of international solidarity and decentralized development cooperation who seek to orient or contribute to "social change". While they agree that social change canno...
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Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities: The Example of Bamako, Mali
"In any city, the price and quality of housing is so influenced by what land is available for housing, under what terms, with what services, and at what cost. This book provides a very rich and detail...
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The Challenge of Stability and Security in West Africa
This book seeks to critically examine the challenges of fragility and security in West Africa, along with the factors of resilience. It seeks to investigate key drivers of conflict and violence, and t...
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New Caledonia
A French Overseas Territory with exceptionally rich and diverse natural heritage, New Caledonia is currently facing an economic slowdown, compounded by the impact of the Covid-19 crisis, as well as un...
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Evaluation of the Sectoral Intervention Framework “Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa”
In 2015, the Evaluation and Capitalisation Division (EVA) of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) initiated an evaluation of the Sectoral Intervention Framework for Food Security in Sub-Saharan Afr...
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Mozambique : ACAMOZ II - Cashew & macadamia sectors
Improve the competitiveness of cashew and macadamia value chains in Zambézie province (Gilé, Gurué and Pebane districts) and Niassa by combining support for sector govern-ance, economic and social dev...
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Strengthening civil protection in Jordan
As a first responder to incidents and accidents, the Jordanian Civil Defense plays an active role in disaster risk prevention and preparedness, in close collaboration with other institutions of the Ki...
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Lebanon: PARAMED - Strengthening Public Health Workers
Training project for health workers in public hospitals and primary health care centers in Lebanon in order to improve the quality of care provided by the public health system.
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ETHIOPIA: Construction and sustainability preparations for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line 2 in Addis Ababa
The goal of this project is to develop the first high-capacity Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor, which will form one of the backbone of the future mass-transit network of Ethiopia’s capital city. The...
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ETHIOPIA: Upgrading Ethiopia’s power grid control system
By upgrading the power grid control system, this project will help to guarantee reliable, cost-effective access to the electricity supply for all types of customers, including Ethiopia's neighbors.
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ETHIOPIA: Supporting Ethiopia’s economic reform agenda
The purpose of this program is to support economic reforms that will enable Ethiopia to become a middle-income country by 2025, by maximizing the amount of finance available for development and streng...
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ETHIOPIA: Financing for agricultural SMEs
AFD is supporting the government of Ethiopia in promoting the sustainable growth of agricultural SMEs by strengthening their structure, management, trade capacities, and by providing access to finance...
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ETHIOPIA: UWSSP II - Urban Water & Sanitation (World Bank)
The grant, focused on sanitation in secondary towns, will focus financing on the most vulnerable communities and in particular women and girls. The aim is to increase the impact of the UWSSP II progra...
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ETHIOPIA: PRISE - Gender Equality in the Electricity Sector
This project's aim is to boost the efficiency of the electricity sector by sustainably raising the skill level of its human resources and increasing the participation of women within the Ethiopian Ele...
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ETHIOPIA: Restoration and reopening of the National Palace
AFD is helping to finance the restoration of the National Palace and its park, as well as the transformation of the site into a museum to open to the public in 2024.
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ETHIOPIA: Rehabilitation of damaged optical groundwire in post-conflict zones
This project aims to rehabilitate 500 km of the fiber optic network damaged as a result of the conflict in Northern Ethiopia.
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