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European Neighborhood and Enlargement Regional Office
The European Neighborhood and Enlargement Regional Office covers an area stretching from the Adriatic Sea to the Caspian Sea, bringing together 12 countries — including all countries officially candid...
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Middle East Regional Office
In the Middle East, AFD Group aims to identify and initiate sustainable development pathways to reduce the region’s fragilities, which threaten the future of upcoming generations. The Middle East Regi...
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Best Practice Guide – Security Plan
This guide aims to highlight the consideration of security issues and provides good practices for developing a dedicated plan. It is intended for all entities that are beneficiaries or potential be...
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Research, Innovation & Knowledge - 2019-2022 Strategy
Strengthening research efforts and promoting innovation are among the cross-cutting focus areas of the French development and international solidarity policy. Echoing this ambition, the AFD Group is s...
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Panorama 2019 - AFD Group Annual Report
[Please refer to the bottom of the page to download the PDF] Agence Française de Développement (AFD) renews its action thanks to the 2,650 dedicated men and women in 115 different countries working...
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AFD Group’s policy to prevent and combat Prohibited practices (2020)
The purpose of this document is to outline the policy of Agence Française de Développement and its subsidiaries to prevent, detect and combat any act of corruption, fraud, money laundering, terrorist...
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Improving European coordination in fragile states - Main report
This document is the main report of a study carried out by the Centre for EU Studies (CEUS), Ghent University, and commissioned by the Practitioners’ Network for European development cooperation in 20...
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Aid Selectivity According to Augmented Criteria
A dominant trend in the literature maintains that donor assistance should be targeted to poor countries with sound institutions and policies. In this context, donor selectivity refers to what extent a...
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French Polynesia
French Polynesia is made up of islands and atolls scattered over 5.5 million km² in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Because of its geographical isolation, it encounters significant economic challenge...
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Measure for Measure - How Well Do We Measure Development? Proceedings of the 8th AFD-EUDN Conference, 2010
Actes de la huitième conférence AFD-EUDN, qui avait réuni plus de 1 000 participants originaires de 30 pays. Les débats portaient sur une question cruciale : la mesure du développement et, donc, sa na...
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The Rise of Asian Emerging Providers: New Approaches to Development Cooperation in Asia?
Le 15 novembre 2013, l'AFD et The Asia Foundation ont organisé un séminaire, à Paris, pour échanger sur les approches asiatiques de la coopération au développement. Cet évènement a regroupé des expert...
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Evaluation and its Discontents: Do We Learn from Experience in Development? Actes de la 9e conférence AFD-EUDN...
This volume presents the proceedings of the conference, “Evaluation and its discontents: do we learn from experience in development?”, jointly organised by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)...
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Seeking Agreement on Official Development Assistance
Since 2015, the international concert of development policy has been playing a decidedly new score. With the Addis Ababa Conference on Financing for Development, the adoption of the Sustainable Develo...
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Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: Leveraging the role of multinationals
In the 1960s and 1970s, numerous developing countries’ governments developed foreign investment codes to restrict inflows in an effort to reduce remittances of dividends or to protect local firms. In...
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Financing Development: What are the Challenges in Expanding Aid Flows
Cet ouvrage rassemble les actes de la conférence organisée le 14 décembre 2005 par l’Agence Française de Développement et le réseau de chercheurs européens EUDN (European Development Research Network)...
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Central African Republic
Building on a strengthened partnership between the two countries, AFD Group is consolidating its commitment to the Central African Republic through the bilateral roadmap endorsed in 2024. This commit...
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The Commons : Interview with David Bollier
David Bollier is one of the Co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group. He gives his point of view about The Commons and examples of commoning.
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Commons and Development Dynamics
Can the preservation and production of Commons foster sustainable development? What roles can politicians and public authorities play? What are the conditions for the emergence and durability of these...
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Quality Signaling through Certification in Developing Countries
This paper studies how the signaling of the credence attributes of consumer goods distorts their market equilibrium in developing countries. Costs of certification, sunk in order to achieve credibilit...
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