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Inequality Diagnostics for Ghana
This report on inequality is the second in the series of inequality diagnostics conducted jointly by AFD and ACEIR, under the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities. The report presents a broad over...
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The Institutionalization of Irrigation and the Effects thereof: the Case of the Palestinian Water User Associa...
This article proposes the deconstruction of the decentralization process by analyzing Palestinian regulations on Water User Associations (WUAs): contrarily, this analysis instead reveals dynamics of c...
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Inequality in Public Good Provision and Attitude Towards Taxation: Sub-national Evidence from Africa
This paper investigates the relationship between inequality in public good provision and attitude towards taxation in the context of sub-Saharan African countries. Individuals’ attitude towards taxati...
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AFD and Agriculture, Rural Development and Biodiversity
Improving agricultural production and preserving ecosystems are two major challenges for sustainable development of rural areas. AFD finances development programs and projects and supports its partner...
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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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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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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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A Mosaic of Green Land in Niger
Located in semi-arid zones in Niger, the oasis basins in Gouré department are threatened by desertification. These islands of crops are essential for the lives of local residents. This project is call...
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Kanta Kiari, a vegetable grower at the heart of the Great Green Wall
Kanta Kiari, a vegetable grower in the Gouré Department in Niger, describes the progress and benefits of the PASAM project (project supporting the food security of households). PASAM is a project figh...
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Green Energy in South Africa
South Africa is an energy-intensive country and a major emitter of greenhouse gases because of the importance of the industrial sector in its gross domestic product (GDP), the use of coal for energy g...
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Evaluation summary - Policy-based loan on maritime logistics sector in Indonesia
In Indonesia, the policy-based loan on maritime logistics (CID1070 (DPL1), CID1072 (DPL2), CID1073 (TA)) was subject to an evaluation between September 2020 and Feb 2021. Transport and maritime log...
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Developing green mobility in Phuket (short version)
In Phuket, the Sustainable Urban TranspoRT and Heritage (SUTRHE) study, funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), aims to analyse inclusive and environmentally friendly alternatives for b...
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Sports and Development - 2019-2020 Activity Report
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights sports as a unifying and inclusive vehicle: it contributes directly to the achievement of 12 Sustainable Development Goals and indirectly to all...
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