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Phnom Penh: Upgrading a major water treatment plant
Located in the heart of Phnom Penh, the Chamcar Morn water treatment plant plays a strategic role in supplying water to the city’s residents. After several months of work on its improvement and expans...
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Enda: Microcredits for the Economic Inclusion of Women in Tunisia
A forerunner of microfinance in Tunisia, the NGO Enda has demonstrated for almost 30 years that microcredits are a powerful tool for poverty reduction and economic development. Promoting female entrep...
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Indonesia: Tackling Plastic and Marine Debris
For a country consisting of 17,000 islands and dependent on the sea around them, it’s an environmental crisis: Indonesia’s waters are full of plastic. It’s time to turn the tide. On 12 March, the Indo...
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Coronavirus: The AFD Group Takes Action
In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the AFD Group has adapted its operational activities and human resources. The group is working on a response aimed at limiting any health-related or economic d...
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“Mexico is on its way to a major climate transition” – Jean-Baptiste Sabatié
On March 20, AFD and the Mexican Finance Ministry signed a new public policy loan agreement. This loan from AFD also marks the official start of a green and inclusive support program for Mexico. In a...
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AFD: Working to provide 18 million people with better Healthcare
The numbers are in. For the year 2019, Agence Française de Développement committed €545 million to support health and social protection worldwide, with the aim of improving access to healthcare for 18...
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Covid-19: Resources for the Water and Sanitation sector
Water and sanitation services constitute a key front in the battle against the Coronavirus pandemic. AFD will regularly share resources and initiatives which could be of use to professionals in the se...
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Text Messages to Raise Awareness about Health and Hygiene
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs invented or developed in our partner countries. Diffusing good health practices to the general public is a big challenge whe...
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Covid-19 and Disruption of the biosphere: a step into the unknown
Covid-19 has forced us to confront some of the big environmental questions of our time. How is the global pandemic linked to the continuing environmental crisis? What risks are involved in our attempt...
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Clarification on the APHRO-COV Project with INSERM
AFD is funding, along with INSERM, a system to improve health surveillance and care for suspected cases of Covid-19 in five African countries (Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Mali and Sénégal). Th...
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“This is the time to Rethink Development Trajectories” - Thomas Mélonio
The Covid-19 crisis has created shockwaves across the world economy, affecting developing countries in particular. What roles can public donors play to contain the fallout? We tackle this question and...
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France Launches, via AFD, The “Covid-19 – Health in Common” Initiative to Support African Countries
As part of a new initiative launched by the French President and his African peers, Agence Française de Développement announces the launch of “COVID-19 – Health in Common” – a €1.2 billion initiative...
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Gender-Based Violence on the Rise with the Coronavirus Crisis: Mar Merita Blat
The current health crisis is already leading to growing gender inequalities with women exposed to precarious work conditions, an increase in unwanted pregnancies and a sharp rise in domestic violence....
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Post-Covid Cities: A Webinar Series
A webinar series on urban affairs is already looking at how cities can cope in a post-Covid world. What are the ramifications of Covid-19 on urban development? How has it affected access to health an...
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Guinea Start-up Designs a Tablet to Diagnose Covid Symptoms
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. Today, we focus on a Guinean start-up that has designed in record time, a table...
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Broadening Access to Water in Rural Cambodia
Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union continue to support private water and electricity operators in Cambodia with the aim of broadening access for people to meet their basic...
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“One Health”: Responding to Pandemics with a Holistic Approach to Human, Animal and Environmental Health
The One Sustainable Health for All forum in Lyon earlier this month examined ways to anticipate - and potentially ward off - future outbreaks of disease by improving international health surveillance...
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Coronavirus in Africa: Private Health Providers and Innovators on the Front Line
While the coronavirus is destabilizing an already fragile African health system, several private health services and innovators supported by Proparco – the private sector arm of Agence Française Dével...
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Neglected Diseases and Covid-19: Innovative Research and Development Strategies
In our series on “Shared Innovation”, AFD highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. The race for a coronavirus vaccine casts into sharp relief existing inequalities...
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Preserving Oceans: Four AFD Initiatives
Assisting island populations, fighting plastic pollution, encouraging sustainable fishing, supporting marine protected areas...In the wake of World Oceans Day, this article takes a look at four projec...
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