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Linking weather forecasts and risk financing
Eastern Caribbean states are highly exposed to extreme weather. Advances in impact forecasting and disaster risk financing create opportunities for reducing the impacts of imminent disasters; but prop...
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AFD and Environmental and climate justice
Faced with the environmental and climate emergency, AFD’s Justice Group offers to support its partner countries to strengthen their environmental law and ensuring access for all to justice in environm...
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AFD and capacity building
Nowadays, AFD is no longer simply a «development financier», but rather strives to strengthen its partners in a more structural way. With in-house expertise in capacity building, we support them in th...
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AFD and Agriculture, Rural Development and Biodiversity
Improving agricultural production and preserving ecosystems are two major challenges for sustainable development of rural areas. AFD finances development programs and projects and supports its partner...
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Bangladesh
Since 2010, Bangladesh has been experiencing remarkable economic development. However, it is also at the forefront of climate change. AFD supports the country in fighting against climate change impact...
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Analysis of Multidimensional Inequalities in West Africa and a Strategy for Inequality Reduction
With the Multidimensional Inequality Framework and the capabilities approach as its theoretical underpinning, this research shows that strong similarities in the expressions of inequalities exist in d...
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Analysis of Multidimensional Inequalities in Central America and Dominican Republic, and a Strategy for Inequa...
The region of Central America and the Dominican Republic (CARD) is experiencing political, social and economic turbulence. Inequality seems to be the root: gaps that bar most people’s access to develo...
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Benin
AFD has been operating in Benin since 1956 and mainly works to improve access to essential services. We are the leading donor for secondary and vocational education and joint leader in the energy sect...
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Twenty years of official dollarization in Ecuador: a blessing or a curse?
Ecuador adopted the U.S. dollar as its legal tender in January 2000, in a context of deep economic and political crisis. Almost two decades later in December 2019, the Executive Board of the Internati...
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Biodiversity: Reconciling Development with Nature
Scientists maintain that ecosystems and natural resources are the foundations on which the future of all societies will be built. It is therefore crucial to preserve their integrity, diversity and cap...
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AFD and Sustainable Cities
AFD supports cities in their low-carbon transition and adaptation to climate change. It aims to improve city dwellers’ quality of life and supports the sustainable development of territories. It helps...
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FOCUS: Sustainable Cities
AFD supports cities in their low-carbon transition and adaptation to climate change. It aims to improve city dwellers’ quality of life and supports the sustainable development of territories. It helps...
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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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Financing the energy transition and renewable energy development
Banco do Brasil is contributing to the diversification of Brazil’s energy mix and the implementation of its climate commitments by strengthening its financing offer for solar equipment aimed at small...
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Digital accessibility
Because Agence Française de Développement (AFD) values inclusion and diversity, it is committed to constantly improving the accessibility of its afd.fr website, especially for people with disabilities...
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Renewable Energy in the Pacific Islands: an overview and exemplary projects
More largely, in the context of the fight against climate change, the subject of renewable energies takes on considerable importance. A large number of island States in the Pacific zone are extremely...
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How Can We Capitalize on the Demographic Dividend? Demographics at the Heart of Development Pathways
In the coming decades, West African countries could benefit from a “demographic window of opportunity” in order to reduce their poverty. The entry of 160 million young people into the labor market bet...
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Managing food price instability in developing countries - A critical analysis of strategies and instruments
Based on a comprehensive review of the theoretical and empirical literature, this book identifies and analyzes four "pure" strategies that can be employed to manage food price instability. It is inten...
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Family Farming Around the World: Definitions, contributions and public policies
Family farms are central to both contemporary changes and contradictions in agriculture. They have been, and are still, the crucible for a whole host of agricultural innovations and major revolutions....
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