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Rethinking Urban Food Supply in the Global South
Challenging misconceptions in order to improve public policy. Many misconceptions exist surrounding urban food supply in the Global South. They result in part from a fragmented vision of the...
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Climate: the double life of wastewater
In Tunisia, climate change is likely to exacerbate an already critical situation of water stress. While demand is growing, Water is becoming scarce. Following the Paris Climate Agr...
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Making Food a “Common Good”: Lessons From Three Experiences to Fight Malnutrition
Food supply is caught in a powerful paradox. The right to food is one of the most established and codified human rights. However, almost a billion people – one person out of nine – currently suffer fr...
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The economic trigger: Enabling gendered social inclusion processes and outcomes amidst poverty escapes in Nige...
This mixed methods paper explores social inclusion of poor women and children in Niger and Malawi. We identify social inclusion outcomes focused primarily on access to education and health, and suppor...
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The Challenges of Achieving Universal Electrification
This study takes stock of national off-grid electrification strategies, focusing mainly on two technical options: mini-grids and individual solar systems. It provides recommendations regarding the amb...
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Part 1: I4CE - A Framework for Alignment with the Paris Agreement: Why, What and How for Financial Institution...
Alignment with the Paris Agreement has become the new frontier of climate finance. Financial institutions, whether seeking sustainable development impacts or with commercial goals, are increasingly co...
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Kenya: healthcare within reach of a cellphone
In Kenya, where 93% of the population did not have access to health coverage until recently, patients can now subscribe to health insurance and pay for their care at a large network of hospitals using...
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Three Oceans Strategy
Present in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, France has five departments and regions and seven overseas collectivities which are home to 2.7 million French citizens. Scattered across the globe,...
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Part 2: Implementing Alignment with the Paris Agreement: Recommendations for the Members of the International ...
Alignment with the Paris Agreement has become the new frontier of climate finance. Financial institutions, whether seeking sustainable development impacts or with commercial goals, are increasingly co...
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Aligning with the Paris Agreement - A CPI and I4CE Executive Summary
Alignment with the Paris Agreement has become the new frontier of climate finance. Financial institutions, whether seeking sustainable development impacts or with commercial goals, are increasingly co...
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Reaching Brazil's Nationally Determined Contributions: An Assessment of the Key Transitions in Final Demand an...
Brazil has achieved significant advances in climate mitigation by reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the last decade. Additionally, Brazil commits to furthering its actions through the Nat...
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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa: Insights from a multilevel analysis
We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions wi...
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Climate change, Inequality and Human Migration
This paper investigates the long-term implications of climate change on local, interregional, and international migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model j...
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Elife : a future for tunisia and its youth
The Elife program consists of building and running technology, entrepreneurship, training and cultural centers in ten cities in Tunisia. Far too many young people from the Higher Institute of Technolo...
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AFD and Latin America
In Latin America, AFD focuses on projects which combat climate change and inequalities. It has committed 8.7 billion euros in the region since 2009, and aims to increase financing to 2 billion euros p...
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Restoring forest ecosystem in Assam
Since 2012, AFD has been working with the State of Assam on biodiversity conservation, sustainable and participatory management of forests, creation of alternate livelihoods for forest-dependent commu...
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Sexual violence : Circus as a tool for reconstruction
In the Philippines, one in five children reported to have experienced sexual violence, according to the Council on the Welfare of Children. Most of these abuses take place at home or in the community....
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BALADK Street art festival 2019 : Art empowering women
In the streets of Amman, there are some surprises in the works for the capital’s residents as the city prepares to host the Baladk Festival. Since 2013, this street art festival, organised by the Al B...
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Reducing Inequalities. Policy Proposals for the Development Cooperation Agenda
Increasing socio-economic inequalities, both real and perceived, pose new challenges. This paper proposes five priorities for the international cooperation agenda.
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A coach for the children of Bredasdorp
The South African town of Bredsdorp, in the southern tip of the country, is rife with unemployment and drug use among young people. After graduating from high school, 22-year-old Bianca has been unabl...
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AFD International Conference on Development : Inequalities and Social Cohesion - Synthesis
On December 6th and 7th of 2018, the 13th International AFD Conference - Inequalities and Social Cohesion was held in Paris. It aimed to bring together specialists on the issues of inequality and soci...
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