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AFD Group Annual Report 2019-2020
Adapted from the digital Datawall, AFD Group’s Annual Report for 2019-20 is now available in a downloadable PDF, in both French and English. With 14.1 billion euros committed in 2019, AF...
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Can development banks step up to the challenge of sustainable development?
The great planetary challenges, be it the climate, loss of nature or human solidarity, call for concerted actions at all levels, on a scale commensurate with the problems. Yet, this transformative cha...
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An Overview of Inequalities in Urban Water Services in Bolivia
Urban drinking water services are a particularly prolific research object to think about inequalities in the city because they are by definition at the interface of economic, social and environmental...
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10 policy recommendations for decision makers on Public Development Banks
Major planetary concerns, including climate change, loss of nature and inequalities among human beings, call for very large scale concerted action at all levels. The challenge is to favor major struct...
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Evaluation Summary - Secondary Cities Project, Burkina Faso
In 2009, the rate of access to electricity in Burkina Faso stood at around 13%, well below the average of the ECOWAS countries (19%). The country’s energy mix was highly dependent on thermal energy. T...
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AFD and economic and financial governance
In order to finance their development policies and provide essential services to their population (e.g. healthcare, education, water and sanitation), governments have to manage their financial resourc...
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Vietnam: 3 years of partnership to engage young people against climate change
Over the past three years, AFD and the Vietnam Youth Union have carried out various actions to raise awareness among young people about the fight against climate change and encourage them to take acti...
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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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Evaluation Summary - Project to Support Vocational Training in Vietnam
In Vietnam, in the field of vocational training, the Vocational Training Support Project (VTSP) underwent a mid-term evaluation in March 2019. The project aims to support the implementation o...
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Population, Demographic Growth, and Development in the South
Seven countries of the South are regularly cited for the population policies they implemented to navigate the demographic transition: Bangladesh, Mexico, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, and Rwanda....
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Preventing the Deterioration and Overexploitation of Groundwater
The deterioration and overexploitation of groundwater at the global scale is leading to a dramatic rise of local problems. Private pumping for irrigation purposes has become established in poorly reg...
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Middle East - 2020-2030 Regional Strategy
The Middle East Strategy identifies AFD Group’s main strategic priorities for the Middle East, the methodological tools for addressing the challenges common to all of the countries in which AFD operat...
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AFD and public sector reform
States are the primary actors of development, mainly because they are responsible for delivering basic services (such as healthcare and education), and ensuring a peaceful, inclusive socio-economic co...
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2019 Universal Registration Document
AFD maintained its growth trajectory in 2019 and reached critical size. For the first time, the Group’s commitment approvals exceeded the €14 billion threshold at exactly €14.1 billion, versus €11.4 b...
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Flooding: Prevention as the Best Option
Across the world, flooding remains the most frequent and most damaging natural risk. This technical report begins by exploring the reasons for this state of affairs: hydrological regimes, the existenc...
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Why and How Should Development Banks Take Physical Climate Risks into Account?
The physical risks resulting from climate change are those related to the direct impact of both more extreme and frequent weather or climate events and gradual changes in climate patterns. As far as b...
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AFD and India: water and sanitation
A partner of India since 2008, AFD works in agreement with Indian authorities to promote green and inclusive growth. It operates through soft loans to the State and public enterprises, as well as tech...
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Public debt in developping countries with Maxime Terrieux
Since the late 1990s, several developing countries have benefited from public debt relief. Yet by early 2020, half of the poor countries had reached a high risk or even already a situation of public d...
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AFD and the Philippines
The Philippine archipelago, made up of more than 7,100 islands, faces major challenges of climatic, environmental and social vulnerabilities. AFD’s action in the Philippines focuses on natural risk ma...
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Rethinking International Funding of African Research
African research is very unevenly distributed across the African continent and still has a weak presence within global scientific research as a whole, particularly when it comes to the social sciences...
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