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AFD and the Environment in Cambodia
Despite its low contribution to global warming, Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world, which directly threatens the country’s prodigious biodiversity. AFD is...
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AFD and the Energy in Cambodia
In terms of energy, Cambodia faces major challenges: more than 20 years after the end of the social unrest that ravaged the country, it has yet to rebuild, develop and diversify its energy production,...
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AFD and the Financial Sector in Cambodia
Cambodia’s financial sector has developed recently, particularly through microfinance institutions. Many banks have also opened in the country in recent years, which is a proof of its economic strengt...
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AFD and the Water in Cambodia
In Phnom Penh, the drinking water system is of good quality. But in the provinces, the sanitation services are still largely undeveloped. AFD has been engaged in this sector in Cambodia since 2004. Th...
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AFD and the Rural Development in Cambodia
80% of the Cambodian population live in rural areas and 45% of the working population are engaged in agriculture. The primary sector still accounts for 23% of Cambodia’s GDP, despite a steady decrease...
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Pakistan - 2018-2022 Strategy
In accordance with its intervention strategy for Asia,15 the Group sets itself three objectives in Pakistan consistent with 100% Paris Agreement commitment to low-carbon and resilient development and...
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Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Uptake, Reliability, and Complementary Factors for Economic Impact
Access to reliable electricity is the backbone of any modern economy. It is even more important with the digital revolution. If African nations want to see their economies transform, the issue of elec...
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Reporting Climate Bond AFD 2018
Climate is central to everything AFD Group does, and in 2018 the Group consolidated this position by adopting a new climate strategy (2017-2022), which reflects its aim to help implement the Paris Agr...
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The Interplay between Women’s Earnings and the Income Distribution: A Cross-National Analysis of Latin America...
Since the 1980s, an inter-disciplinary literature drawing heavily from economics and sociology has addressed the interplay between women’s earnings and household income. We use data from the Luxembour...
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Market income inequality, left-wing political parties, and redistribution in Latin America
The paper uses household-level data from more than 200 household income surveys from 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries to explore the (revised) median voter hypothesis and the political determ...
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India
India: 1.4 billion inhabitants and a record economic performance. While focusing on improving the quality of life of the Indian people and on developing infrastructures, India is showing proactive cli...
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ETHIOPIA: UWSSP II - Urban Water & Sanitation (World Bank)
The grant, focused on sanitation in secondary towns, will focus financing on the most vulnerable communities and in particular women and girls. The aim is to increase the impact of the UWSSP II progra...
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ETHIOPIA: PRISE - Gender Equality in Electricity Sector
This project's aim is to boost the efficiency of the electricity sector by sustainably raising the skill level of its human resources and increasing the participation of women within the Ethiopian Ele...
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ETHIOPIA: Restoring & opening national palace to public
AFD is helping to finance the restoration of the National Palace and its park, as well as the transformation of the site into a museum to open to the public in 2024.
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ETHIOPIA: OFGW network rehab in post-conflict zones
This project aims to rehabilitate 500km of the fiber optic network damaged as a result of the conflict in Northern Ethiopia.
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Strengthening Ethiopian civil society institutions
This project aims to assist the Agency for Civil Society Organizations (ACSO) in its institutional and operational transformation processes, to implement the law and strengthen its capacities.
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Protection and restoration of Lalibela heritage site
Financing of studies for the protection, restoration and development of the Lalibela heritage site.
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Promoting private investment in MH&H
Ethiopia set up the first Development Impact Bond (DIB) pilot project to promote gender equality by leveraging private sector investment to absorb the risk involved in providing Menstrual Health and H...
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ETHIOPIA: Scientific cooperation to preserve Ethiopia’s cultural heritage and tourism
The project addresses the urgent need to restore and preserve Lalibela's churches through scientific and technical cooperation to build local capacity required for the preservation and management of E...
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ETHIOPIA: Maze National Park preservation support
This is a project designed to improve the long term integrity and management of natural resources and biodiversity in Maze National Park for the benefit of ecosystems and communities.
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