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Income Distribution in Latin America. The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable g...
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Evaluation Summary - Procredit – Upscaling to mesofinance
In Ghana, for the “Finance” sector, the grant to support the upscaling of ProCredit to mesofinance in order to develop its offer of loans to Small and medium enterprises (SME) was subject to an evalua...
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Evaluation Summary - Mesofinance Advans project
In Ghana, for the “Finance” sector, the grant to support the mesofinance Advans project in order to develop its offer of loans to Small and medium enterprises (SME) was subject to an evaluation in Apr...
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8th World Water Forum Press Kit
The international community will be gathering at the 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia (18 - 23 March 2018) to discuss water, a vital resource. The situation is urgent: over 2 billion men, women and c...
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Kenya - 2017-2021 Strategy
AFD group has been operating in Kenya since 1995 via its subsidiary PROPARCO. AFD subsequently opened an agency in Nairobi in 1997, with a regional competence for the five countries which make up the...
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10 years of partnership between India and AFD
Today’s world is increasingly interconnected. Building a safer, more equitable and sustainable world implies intensifying collective action and partnerships to shape solutions that benefit all. India...
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Why is the water issue a major challenge?
Today, 2.1 billion people do not have access to drinking water and 4.5 billion people do not benefit from sanitation services.
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Retrospective Analysis of the Urban Water Supply Sector in Senegal: A Public-Private Partnership Over Time
This study, commissioned by the AFD Innovation, Research and Knowledge department, provides a retrospective analysis of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) that has been managing the urban water supp...
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Water & sanitation: 2017 Review of the implementation of the strategy for 2014-2018
EUR 1.3 billion for the water and sanitation sector 2017 confirmed the strong growth in the annual volume of financing approvals, which has doubled since 2014. Out of EUR 1.3 billion, EUR 1.2 billi...
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French Guiana: Spring water ... finally drinkable
In the Amerindian village of Favard, in the municipality of Roura in French Guiana, the installation of a water treatment unit has given residents access to drinking water all year round. This is prov...
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Challenges in Sanitation
Among the essential public utilities, sanitation and wastewater services present forms of organization and management that have contributed to make it low on the agenda of policy makers when it comes...
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An oasis in the desert
Marsabit forest, a natural space surrounded by desert, covers an area of over 16,000 hectares. This region in the North of Kenya hosts a core resource for neighboring communities and significant biodi...
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Mekong: the challenges of common management
The Mekong River is a common good and its fairly-shared management can be a source of peace and development. This delta is one the biggest water reservoirs in the world along with Amazonia. 80 million...
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Environmental and Social Framework
The present document establishes the Environmental and Social Framework of the AFD and GCF ‘Transforming Financial Systems for Climate’ Programme. It describes standards, procedures, processes and too...
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Céline Gilquin: Water issue a major challenge
In the context of the next World Water Forum, which will kick off on 18 March in Brazil, Céline Gilquin, Head of AFD’s Water and Sanitation Division, gives details about the key challenges concerning...
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Kenya: a bright couloured school start
In Kisumu, the third most populated city in Kenya, pupils and teachers in the Angira school could not wait a second more: walls were crumbling, classrooms were on the verge of collapsing. The school w...
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Mozambique: children dare to dream big
In Mozambique, AFD and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) are banking on education. The country inherited a deteriorated education system because of the civil war. In 1992, one child in two was n...
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Evaluation Summary - Policy loan "Support programme to respond to climate change" (SPRCC)
In Vietnam, the climate policy loan “Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change” (SPRCC) was subject to an evaluation in May 2018. Although CO2 emissions are still low in Vietnam, they are risi...
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Assessing and Addressing Climate Governance Challenges in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This guide is intended to help staff of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and other interested stakeholders identify and address potential domestic governance barriers to implementing and enhanc...
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Spatial poverty and inequality in South Africa: A municipality level analysis
Using the 2011 South African population census, we provide income and multidimensional poverty and inequality estimates at the municipal level. We go on to estimate a spatial econometric model to iden...
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