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Evaluating 15 Years of Support for Development
This document is a summary of the final report of the external evaluation of 15 years of AFD and FFEM interventions related to “the development of rural territories or landscapes”3 in sub-Saharan Afri...
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Mobility and transport- Synthesis of the AFD Group sectoral intervention framework
The challenge in the sector: Contribute to the achievement of the SDGs while adhering to low-carbon and resilient development trajectories Mobility is determined by individual choices made by a mul...
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Climate - 2018 Activity Report
The effects of climate disturbances are putting people and ecosystems in peril, especially in the developing countries most vulnerable to climate change. To limit the increase in global temperature by...
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AFD and the energy transition in Vietnam
In line with Vietnam’s revised Power Development Plan, electricity production in 2030 will be four times the level of 2014. This revised plan emphasises the development of renewable energies (ENR), wh...
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AFD and Cambodia
The French Development Agency or Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has been present in Cambodia since 1993. The Agency supports Cambodia in territorial, ecological and social transitions while f...
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AFD and the Environment in Cambodia
Despite its low contribution to global warming, Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world, which directly threatens the country’s prodigious biodiversity. AFD is...
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AFD and the Energy in Cambodia
In terms of energy, Cambodia faces major challenges: more than 20 years after the end of the social unrest that ravaged the country, it has yet to rebuild, develop and diversify its energy production,...
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AFD and the Financial Sector in Cambodia
Cambodia’s financial sector has developed recently, particularly through microfinance institutions. Many banks have also opened in the country in recent years, which is a proof of its economic strengt...
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AFD and the Water in Cambodia
In Phnom Penh, the drinking water system is of good quality. But in the provinces, the sanitation services are still largely undeveloped. AFD has been engaged in this sector in Cambodia since 2004. Th...
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AFD and the Rural Development in Cambodia
80% of the Cambodian population live in rural areas and 45% of the working population are engaged in agriculture. The primary sector still accounts for 23% of Cambodia’s GDP, despite a steady decrease...
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AFD and the Professional Training in Cambodia
Cambodia’s growth is one of the most robust in the region. However, the dynamism of the economy faces a number of structural weaknesses, notably related to the lack of qualifications among the workfor...
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Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Uptake, Reliability, and Complementary Factors for Economic Impact
Access to reliable electricity is the backbone of any modern economy. It is even more important with the digital revolution. If African nations want to see their economies transform, the issue of elec...
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Evaluation of the Second Objective of the Biodiversity Cross-cutting Intervention Framework (2013–2017)
The Agence française de développement (AFD) has entrusted the evaluation of the second objective of the Biodiversity Cross-cutting Intervention Framework to EY in partnership with Biotope. The Cross-c...
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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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South Africa: from cow manure to green energy
In South Africa, a brand-new action has come into being: cow manure is being used. Sean Thomas, a South African entrepreneur, has set up a plant that produces biogas energy. In brief, rather than leav...
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Burkina Faso, new hub of renewable energies
Located in the South-West of Ouagadougou, Zagtouli, the biggest solar plant in West Africa – and the first in Burkina Faso - has been build. In a country where 19 million inhabitants have no access to...
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Improving the employment of young people and women in a context of crisis in Lebanon
In Lebanon, AFD and the NGO IECD (“Semeurs d’Avenir”) are not only trying to teach young people a trade, they are promoting the togetherness. Lebanese society has not totally recovered from the 2005 c...
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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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