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AFD and the Support Fund for Feminist Organizations (FSOF)
Announced in 2019 by the President of the French Republic and launched on July 15, 2020, the Support Fund for Feminist Organizations (FSOF) aims to support feminist civil society organizations in part...
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3 questions to Mar Meritat Blat, gender expert at AFD
The Generation Equality Forum (FGE) opens today in Paris. 26 years after the Beijing Declaration, this event will bring together civil society, states, international organizations, the private sector,...
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3 questions to Fawzia Baba-Aissa in charge of the development of the Women's Fund in the Mediterranean area
On the occasion of the Generation Equality Forum which opened on June 30, 2021 in Paris, discover the gender issues in North Africa and the Middle East with Fawzia Baba-Aissa, development officer at t...
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3 questions to Carla Gutiérrez from the Gregoria Apaza Women's Promotion Center in Bolivia
On the occasion of the Generation Equality Forum which opened on June 30, 2021 in Paris, meeting with Carla Gutiérrez from the Gregoria Apaza Center for the Promotion of Women. Based in El Alto, Boliv...
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Continuous water supply: a decisive factor in the fight against cholera
Around 2.4 billion cases of diarrhoeal disease were recorded globally in 2015, causing approximately 500,000 deaths among children under five. Over 60% of these deaths were attributed to poor access t...
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Inequality Trends and Diagnostics In Kenya 2020
This report is a joint publication produced by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in partnership with the Eastern Africa research node of the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Re...
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Introduction of Coffee Cultivation in Northern Laos
For effective management of natural resources and a means to reduce poverty, countries around the world have relied on coffee cultivation. To achieve these twin goals however, coffee farming and produ...
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Mozambique
Mozambique is AFD Group's first country of operation in Southern Africa (1981). This historic presence was made possible thanks to a wide range of financial tools mobilized over the years. Today, AFD...
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Corporate citizenship and water urbanization on the outskirts of El Alto
In this paper, we analyze the process of water urbanization in the periphery of El Alto, in the context of the urban sprawl growth; thus, the administration of the public drinking water company puts i...
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Data4Nature Initiative
In France, the Law on Reclaiming Biodiversity, Nature and Landscapes has required public and private contracting authorities to contribute to the inventory of natural heritage since 2016. In this way...
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Territorial inequalities expressed in children's health in two neighborhoods with access to water in the city ...
Official figures on the access to water show almost total coverage in Bolivia's cities and a lower coverage of basic sanitation, which suggests an improvement in the quality of life of the population....
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Landscape of springs and collective outdoor laundries in the city of La Paz
The landscape of springs in the municipality of La Paz has been shaped by glaciers and rainwater deposits accumulated for years. In view of the landslides, the springs were stigmatized by urban planni...
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A World Tour of Climate Solutions - 2020 Edition
This second edition of the World Tour of Climate Solutions presents a sample of projects financed by AFD Group. What is a climate project? How does it meet a need in a given region? What is its impact...
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Conflicts and tensions over water ownership in the territory of the Urban-Rural Interface of Hampaturi, munici...
Many works focus on water conflicts in urban or rural areas, but very few try to understand what happens in spaces where boundaries are diffuse. In this article, we analyze the tensions and conflicts...
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Collect more, spend better? Assessing the incidence of fiscal systems and public spending in three Francophone...
The objective of this study is to analyse and compare the incidence of fiscal systems of three western African countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Senegal. The analysis relies on different data and too...
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Finance in Common : Joint Declaration of All Public Development Banks in the World
The Covid-19 pandemic and its subsequent socio-economic crisis is generating profound and enduring impacts for People and the Planet. The crisis reveals and amplifies our vulnerabilities and inequalit...
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A Strategy for Reducing Inequalities in Central America and the Dominican Republic
Reducing economic and social inequalities in Central America and the Dominican Republic requires a new productive model, focused particularly on improving opportunities for women and young people in a...
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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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Social Housing and Upward Mobility in South Africa
More could be done to improve the chances of upward mobility for tenants of social housing in South Africa. The social housing policy makes no mention of upward mobility for tenants, even though this...
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Palestinian water laws: Between centralization, decentralization, and rivalries
This article explores the process of reforming Palestinian water laws, in particular the last water law enacted in 2014. These legislative reforms are part of an international context of modernization...
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