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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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Multidimensional Inequality in Vietnam
Even though Vietnam has achieved great social and economic development over the past 30 years, notorious gaps remain not only in income, but also in other critical dimensions of well-being and politic...
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Springs and collective laundries in the city of La Paz, notes for their management
The urban landscape of the city of La Paz hides a large number of underground rivers but reveals dozens of springs on its hillside territories. These springs have multiple meanings, mainly for women,...
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Access to water: persistence of inequalities in the life of women
This policy brief is aimed primarily at decision-makers at the municipal, regional and national levels, as well as at non-governmental institutions, neighborhood councils and private institutions. As...
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Municipal planning and inter-institutional coordination for good water management
Water distribution systems involve various actors. Access to water is a fundamental human right that materializes in a set of rules, laws and institutions that exercise shared, exclusive or concurrent...
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Water and Sanitation works with Neighborhood Participation: regulated and transparent
This policy brief is targeting State authorities involved in the water and sanitation sector, regardless of whether they are responsible for public policies, regulators, executors or projects financer...
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Water provision and management of urban-rural interface territories
The urban-rural interface territories, as well as their inhabitants, play a key role in the collection and distribution of water resources for the city, often because the sources and infrastructures a...
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Water in the city of El Alto, a right that arrives incomplete
In Bolivia cities, statistics reflect a high access to water coverage and a lower coverage of basic sanitation. The phenomenon can be observed in the city of El Alto. A socio-economic analysis conduct...
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Social Housing and Spatial Inequality in South African Cities
Social housing can be a powerful tool for integrating socially divided cities by providing decent rental accommodation for low- and moderate-income working families in central urban areas. Yet as new...
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Social Housing and Upward Mobility in South African Cities
Not enough is being done to maximise the prospects of upward mobility for the tenants of South Africa’s social housing programme. Household-level improvements in well-being are generally taken for gra...
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Displaced Sand, Displaced People: Examining the Livelihood Impacts of Sand Mining
The social, economic and ecological consequences of unabated sand exploitation are profound. Sand miners, working directly in riverbed sand mining in and around Phnom Penh and urban farmers, whose liv...
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Environmental Inequalities in the Mekong River Basin: A systematic mapping of existing knowledge
How do accelerating environmental changes impact inequalities and how do rising inequalities affect, in reverse, environmental dynamics? Numerous studies have tackled one specific aspect of the relati...
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Water and Sanitation - 2020 Activity Report
The United Nations recognized the human right to access to water and sanitation in 2010, but there is still much progress to be made: over two billion people do not have access to a quality drinking w...
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Protecting the water ressource of Lake Victoria
Present in the East Africa region for more than 20 years, AFD has been working with the cities bordering Lake Victoria to improve access to clean water and sanitations for the population. A long term...
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Turkey : Protecting forests and the future
Protecting our forests is crucial for combating climate change, conserving biodiversity, and for human health and development. Since 2012, Turkish and French experts have contributed to the protect...
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EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities 2017-2020 synthesis
4-million euro program to better understand inequalities in low and middle income countries, the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequality was funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for...
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Kanta Kiari, a vegetable grower at the heart of the Great Green Wall
Kanta Kiari, a vegetable grower in the Gouré Department in Niger, describes the progress and benefits of the PASAM project (project supporting the food security of households). PASAM is a project...
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Evaluation summary - Policy-based loan on maritime logistics sector in Indonesia
In Indonesia, the policy-based loan on maritime logistics (CID1070 (DPL1), CID1072 (DPL2), CID1073 (TA)) was subject to an evaluation between September 2020 and Feb 2021. Transport and maritime log...
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Developing green mobility in Phuket (short version)
In Phuket, the Sustainable Urban TranspoRT and Heritage (SUTRHE) study, funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), aims to analyse inclusive and environmentally friendly alternatives for b...
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Sports and Development - 2019-2020 Activity Report
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights sports as a unifying and inclusive vehicle: it contributes directly to the achievement of 12 Sustainable Development Goals and indirectly to all...
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