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Sustainable public procurement: A lever for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Public procurement, which represents a significant portion of the national economy (averaging between 13% and 20% of GDP), is a powerful tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In...
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Water reuse, a strategic response to water stress?
The effects of climate change, which are particularly noticeable in countries around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East, are exacerbating water stress in these regions. Faced with increasing wat...
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Sustainable Water Management: What Are the Challenges for the Great Green Wall?
The Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative aims to create a green strip through the Sahel, some 8,000 km long and 15 km wide, to restore degraded land. Launched in 2021, the GGW Accelerator focuses on five...
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HOW IS CLIMATE ACTION A MATTER OF GOVERNANCE?
The fight against climate change is more than just a technical issue: it is also a major political and institutional challenge that reaches beyond international summits and multilateral COPs, question...
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The human rights-based approach: A lever for transformation
92% of the SDG targets are rooted in the international corpus of human rights. In this context, the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs' human rights strategy calls for "support for human ri...
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What characterizes the re-institutionalisation of research in Sahel countries?
After several years of de-institutionalization, African research has now entered a new consolidation phase in which international funding plays a central role. This paper has been produced through the...
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Citizens and the climate: Towards innovative decision-making in public climate policies?
This publication is a synthesis of a study by International IDEA: “Deliberative Democracy and Climate Change; Exploring the Potential of Climate Assemblies in the Global South”. The two main crises of...
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Social inequality in Mozambique
This study presents the profile of social inequality in Mozambique from 1997 to 2017. Despite progress in reducing poverty within the government's efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, the...
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Are industries in emerging countries becoming greener?
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), industry generates a fifth of the world’s direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It also produces indirect emissions due in part to electricity gene...
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Recycling carbon taxes for reindustrialisation: addressing structural rigidity and financialisation in natural...
Inclusion of developing and emerging countries in the low carbon transition agenda is imperative to meet climate goals, and policies should be tailored to their unique characteristics. Despite their s...
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Social Mobility, Care Policies, and Social Protection Policies in Nuevo León
In this study, we shed light on the connections between social mobility and policies in terms of care and social protection in the state of Nuevo León. The objective is to examine women's opportunitie...
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Social Mobility, Care Policies, and Social Protection
In this study, we shed light on the connections between social mobility and social protection related to care. The objective is to examine women's opportunities for choice and life achievements in ter...
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Research Paper No. 325 | Switching Roles: Gender differences in time use and mental health in Ghana
We explore the association between domestic labor and psychological distress among women and men in Ghana. A growing body of literature has recently focused on the relationship between time use and me...
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Vietnam in the face of extreme heat events
Some of the greatest impacts of climate change worldwide arise from increasing extreme weather events, including hot temperature extremes. As global warming is projected to further intensify in future...
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Youth and the just transition. A profile of young NEET in Mpumalanga
With one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world, South Africa’s planning for a just transition needs to take into account the vulnerabilities of its youth cohorts, especially those that...
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Communication of AFD-supported projects
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Finance in Common (FICS)
Finance in Common (FiCS) was launched in 2020. It brings together more than 540 public development banks (PDBs) and their partners working toward a common objective: better aligning financial flows on...
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Finance in Common Summit: Official launch of Sport en Commun”, the first digital platform in Africa for fundin...
Within the framework of the "Finance in Common" Summit, the African Sport en Commun platform was officially launched today in the presence of development and sport stakeholders mobilized to achieve th...
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Finance in Common Summit: The development and sport worlds join forces for the “Sport for Development Coalitio...
Today Public Development Banks are launching a “Sport for Development Coalition” in close collaboration with the world of sport. Members are committed to mobilizing their financial resources, investme...
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2026 GRN Development Banking Research Conference
Public Banks in a Changing Global Financial Architecture
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