Publications and media
Ex Post Written and Audiovisual Evaluation of the Limpopo National Park Development Project
The Limpopo National Park (LNP) is one of the largest parks in Mozambique. It covers 11,230 km 2 (an area the size of Ile-de-France) and is part of a larger transfrontier park that encompasses the Kru...
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Support to local socio-economic revitalisation in cities undergoing crisis
AFD is regularly called upon to support urban development projects in areas recovering from crises, be they natural or political. Above and beyond the simple reconstruction of buildings, such requests...
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Agroecology: Evaluation of 15 Years of AFD Support
This document is a summary of the final report on the external evaluation of 15 years of support actions by Agence Française de Développement and the French Facility for Global Environment – FFGE in a...
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Indonesia Climate Change Programme Loan (ICCPL)
In close partnership in 2008, 2009 and 2010, JICA and AFD approved a series of “climate” budget loans to the Indonesian Government in order to facilitate the design and implementation of an ambitious...
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Refining AFD’s Interventions in the Palestinian Territories - Increasing Resilience in Area C
Zone C in the West Bank is a territory rich in natural resources and with great potential for economic development. It is also the only part of the West Bank over which the Palestinian Authority has n...
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Pastoral Water Development in Chad - Evaluation of AFD Interventions over the Last 20 Years
In 2012 the Evaluation Division of AFD’s Research Department decided to evaluate and follow up 20 years of AFD Group interventions in the pastoral water sector in Chad. This exercise, which covered 11...
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Going Beyond Adverse Selection: Take-up of a Health Insurance Program in Rural Cambodia
Standard insurance theory predicts that households that anticipate high insurance costs are those that are willing to purchase health insurance (adverse selection). However, there are also several oth...
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Adverse selection based on observable and unobservable factors in health insurance in rural Cambodia
High health care expenditures following a health shock can have long-term economic consequences. Health insurance has the potential to avert economic difficulties following health shocks, increase hea...
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Insuring Health or Insuring Wealth? An experimental evaluation of health insurance in rural Cambodia
High health care expenditures following a health shock can lead to long-term economic consequences. Health insurance has the potential to avert economic difficulties following health shocks. If uninsu...
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SKY Impact Evaluation Cambodia, 2010 Village Monographs
The SKY health microinsurance programme, run by the GRET is an innovative attempt to extend health insurance to Cambodians, with special initiatives reaching out to both the rural and urban poor. The...
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Impact of Microcredit in Rural Areas of Morocco: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Microcredit has rapidly expanded in recent years, providing access to financial services to a large population previously excluded from the financial system. However, whether it helps the poor has bee...
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The forest sector in countries of the Congo Basin: 20 years of AFD Intervention
The concept of sustainable forest management emerged at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992. It entails the conservation and enhancement, for the welfare of present and future generations, of the eco...
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Practical Case of Resident Technical Assistance. Lessons Learned from Support to the Education Sector in Mauri...
Since the Paris Declaration, the topic of “capacity development” has gained considerable momentum in the reflection on Official Development Assistance (ODA). The international community had previously...
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AFD Municipal Development Project in the Palestinian Territories
Municipalities in the Palestinian Territories constitute one of the oldest forms of governance. With seventy percent of the West Bank’s population living in 107 municipalities (the entire population o...
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Analysis of the Determinants of the Demand for Financial Services in Rural Morocco
This study has been designed to be complementary to the work carried out by the IPA (Innovations for Poverty Action) / J-PAL (The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) team. The IPA/J-PAL study, whic...
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Addressing Development Challenges in Emerging Asia: A Strategic Review of the AFD-ADB Partnership
After some seven years of collaboration under the 2003 MoU, AFD and ADB agreed to carry out a strategic review of their partnership. The overall objectives of the review have been threefold: (i) revie...
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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...
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Soweto Water Project | 2005 - 2010 | A filmed evaluation
The Operation "Gcin'amanzi" (Zulu for "water conservation") in Soweto is one of the country's most ambitious water-related projects. In post-apartheid South Africa the project was essential. Since the...
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Randomized Controlled Evaluation of SKY Health Insurance in Cambodia, Survey ProtocolRandomized Controlled Eva...
This proposal describes an impact evaluation of the SKY Health Insurance Program in Cambodia. The origins of SKY (Sokapheap Krousar Yeung, “Health for Our Families”) lie in a microfinance program laun...
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Assessing the Effects of Health Insurance: The SKY Micro-Insurance Program in Rural Cambodia
When people experience a major health shock, their medical expenses typically rise and their contribution to household income and production (cooking, childcare, etc.) declines (Wagstaff and Doorslaer...
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Sectoral aid in practice
Since the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, developing countries and donors have increasingly favoured the development of sectoral aid, which represents a substantially different approach from t...
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