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Climate : how can a development agency help?

Our planet is warming. Why? Who are the foremost victims? And what are development agencies doing to ensure the transition towards a more low-carbon world? The more humankind goes forward, the more i...

Beyond the maps

Through several interviews, this film shows how the African scientific community has appropriated technology to sustainably manage logging in forests, to the benefit of the people living in the Congo...

What is a sustainable agriculture sector?

In developing countries, many farmers live in poverty. How can the situation be reversed? Is it possible to give priority to environmentally friendly agricultural practices while allowing everyone to...

Panorama 2016 - AFD Annual Report

With pragmatism and determination, AFD teams are currently working on more than 2,500 development projects across the world - supplying water to parched land and people in Jordan and electricity to th...

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Economic Partnership Agreements and Regional Trade Flow Dynamics: The ECOWAS Case

The Cotonou Agreement, signed in June 2000, has as its central objective "reducing and eventually eradicating poverty consistent with the objectives of sustainable development and the gradual integrat...

Beyond the fragile state: Taking action to assist fragile actors and societies

The concept of the "fragile state" came rapidly to the fore in 2004 in the international policy debate about official development assistance (ODA). The month of January 2005 saw not only an important...

Local taxation: an economy-based guide

The present paper is an extension of the research work undertaken by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in the field of local taxation. The study by Dafflon et al. (2008), published in the se...

Vocational Training in the Informal Sector

The AFD, with support from the international network of experts, GEFOP, proposes to conduct an in-depth study on the conditions and forms of investment in training in the informal sector. (...)

Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Cameroon Field Survey

Cameroon was originally chosen as one of the five sample countries for the field survey on vocational training in the informal sector because it stands out among the subSaharan African countries. (......

Vocational Training in the Informal Sector - Report on the Angola Field Survey

This report is part of a study carried out by the AFD Research Department on vocational training in the informal sector in seven African countries, which are, in alphabetical order, South Africa, Ango...

Economic Partnership Agreements: Accompanying Measures Are Needed

The Cotonou agreements announce the end of preferential agreements by envisaging a renewed partnership, based on reciprocity, between the European Union and six regions of Africa, the Caribbean and Pa...

A new institutional DATABASE: "Institutional profiles 2006"

The "2006 Institutional Profiles" database offers a battery of 356 variables for 85 developing, in transition and developed countries, accounting for 90% of the world‘s GDP and population. A first ve...

AFD-funded Resident Technical Assistance

Since the CICID (Inter-ministerial Committee for International Co-operation and Development) meeting in 2005, sectoral capacity-building now falls under AFD’s responsibility/remit. At the same time, t...

Operating in Fragile States - Lessons from Experience

There are several approaches to fragile states. The first, based on the crisis cycle, distinguishes between deteriorating countries, countries in prolonged crisis, countries emerging from crisis, and...

What Microfinance for Agriculture in Developing Countries?

Between 2005 and 2007 the Evaluation and Capitalisation Division (EVA) conducted several ex post evaluations of microfinance institutions (MFIs) operating in both urban and rural areas. A specific foc...

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