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100% Social Link - 2021-2025 Strategy
AFD Group uses the social link – that is, the ties between individuals, social groups, territories, organisations and institutions – as the foundation for sustainable and shared development. Our 10...
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AFD's 100% Social Link Strategy
For AFD, the social link is the condition for sustainable and shared development. Strengthening the links between individuals, between social groups, and between territories will make it possible to i...
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Climate - 2020 Activity Report
To mitigate the increasing effects of climate change, it is necessary to strengthen the resilience of people and ecosystems in vulnerable countries. At the same time, keeping the global temperature in...
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Central Africa - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy
At the heart of the African continent, Central Africa is a diverse area that is loosely and unevenly integrated regionally and marked by contradictory dynamics and tensions which can weaken cohesion,...
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Youth inclusion in labour markets in Niger: Gender dynamics and livelihoods
This paper uses a mixed methods approach to identify factors that challenge and enable young adults’ inclusion in the world of work in Niger, through a gender-streamlined analysis of different poverty...
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Mixed methods approach for research on youth inclusion in labour markets in Niger
This article briefly explores how to combine two qualitative methodologies to inspect the topic of youth inclusion in Niger via a mixed methods analysis. It presents the ethnographic approach develope...
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Andean Region - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy
This document presents the strategy of the Regional Office (RO) of the Andean Region (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru), created in 2018 and based in Bogota. The goal of this strategy will be to pr...
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Youth of Niger: entrepreneurship between struggle and norms renegotiation
Niger’s 10-year focus on youth entre-preneurship has achieved limited results. It needs to be better funded, coordinated and complemented by a more holistic industrial policy and si-gnificant improvem...
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Youth of Niger: schooling and training as useful tools for inclusion
Education and training can help drive escapes from poverty, and education policy needs to understand and deal with each barrier to this goal. Govern-ment and donors need to allocate in-creased budgets...
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Youth of Niger: migration as a double-edged sword for labour inclusion
Migration is a major livelihood strate-gy for young men in Niger, with the potential to aid household escapes from poverty. However, there are obstacles to achieving sustained poverty escapes that nee...
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Uganda: revising the growth model while preserving debt sustainability
After two decades (1990–2010) of strong growth and structural transformation, Uganda’s economy is still confronted with a high level of informality and a concentration of jobs in agricul-ture—a sector...
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The Environmental and Social Complaints Mechanism - 2020 Activity Report
The AFD Environmental and Social (E&S) Complaints Mechanism was set up in spring 2017 to strengthen the Agency’s response to its transparency and accountability requirements. It was part of an ove...
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Is Agroecological Intensification Possible in the Sahel?
Agroecology is a science, a trend of thought, and a set of cultural practices implying the application of the principles of ecology to agriculture to obtain sustainable production in optimized quantit...
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The Commons Working For a New World
The current rate of extraction of planetary resources is no longer sustainable. With this observation, it is our way of inhabiting the world and our economic model that are called into question. St...
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The African Private Sector in the Covid-19 Crisis: Impacts, Responses and Perspectives
In 2020, the Covid-19 crisis plunged Africa into an exceptional economic recession. Lockdown measures to contain the spread of the pandemic, combined with the slowdown in activity in its main trading...
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Empowering Civil Society Organizations : the localisation of AID in Lebanon
The Shabake program mobilizes 9.4 million euros to strengthen the capacities of 13 local CSOs (civil society organizations) in the implementation of their field activities. Co-financed by the Agence F...
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Reforming and Rebuilding Lebanon's Port Sector - Part II
Digitalization is one of key foundational stones for the reconstruction and modernization of the Port of Beirut (PoB) operations, according to a new World Bank note that aims to provide guidance to po...
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Rent-to-buy: What potential does it offer for improving access to affordable housing?
In a context marked by strong urbanization, the development of affordable housing can considerably improve the living conditions of low-income households in the countries of the global South. The stud...
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Toward a reliable assessment of the environmental sustainability of territories
The Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) is an innovative tool for assessing the condition of a territory's environmental functions and how sustainable they are. Despite the sparse and fragmented...
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The Qixian wetlands and nature-based solutions
The Changyuan River restoration project in Shanxi province, China, relies on nature-based solutions to restore essential ecological heritage and increase the capacity of local ecosystems to adapt to c...
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