AFD was asked to support the Communauté Forestière du Moyen-Ouémé (CoForMO) in Benin on a project financed by the French Global Environment Facility (FGEF) to assess the relevance and feasibility of using mobile data collection and centralization tools to improve the monitoring system. As part of this project, based on the CoForMO inventories, the Laboratoire…
Support for the development of the European Soil Assessment – Soil erosion The study “Support for the development of the European Soil Condition Assessment” was dedicated to the impact of soil erosion on human activities and ecosystems. It took the form of a document entitled “Key facts on the role, impact and extent of soil…
Capacity-building implementation of the forestry strategyby the DFG In 2004, the European Commission launched a twinning initiative aimed at helping certain independent states in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean region, such as Algeria, which has an estimated forest heritage of 4,100,000 ha, including 1,700,000 ha of forest. But although this heritage offers society an extraordinary…
Case studies and regional workshops In 2020, the World Bank commissioned INRAE to carry out a study entitled “MRV study for a reduction in GHG emissions from livestock farming in conjunction with a reduction in deforestation”. The study is based on the hypothesis that promoting certain intensive livestock farming practices can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)…
The Reuse of Treated Wastewater (RWW) encompasses a variety of projects that are raising great hopes in the countries of the South, especially in agriculture. At the beginning of 2021, the IME (Institut méditerranéen de l’Eau) initiated international coordination of the project at six sites: Algeria, Bolivia, Morocco, Palestine, Senegal and Tunisia. Financed by the…
In Tunisia, the already substantial number of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is managed by the Office National d’Assainissement (ONAS), which publishes the projects completed or underway on its website. AFD finances the implementation of various wastewater management programmes. However, to develop sanitation in rural areas (< 8 000 p.e.), ONAS was looking for support in…
In Algeria, the Massire project (“Ma” for Maghreb, “ssi” for innovation system, and “re” for water resources) concerns the wilaya of Ghardaïa, at the gateway to the Sahara. Water resources, which are mainly underground due to the very low rainfall, are mainly fed by floods caused by the flooding of wadis following downpours on the…
Hải Dương Province in Vietnam and Mitsamiouli Hospital in Comoros In terms of international cooperation, thanks to AFD’s FICOL facility, the Sanitation Department of the Seine-St-Denis Departmental Council (CD 93) has made it possible to launch two sanitation and wastewater treatment plant projects in 2019 in partnership mainly with the SIAAP, as well as the…
At the end of 2020, on the basis of Rémi LOMBARD-LATUNE’s most recent work on REUSE in the Maghreb, the pS-Eau network, in collaboration with the RMC Water Agency, decided to launch a new REUT study for a period of 2 to 3 years, 2022-2024. It will focus on the methodology for reusing treated wastewater,…
Expert contribution to the construction of a postgraduate module for the University of Padjadjaran (UNPAD) in Bandung The Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IGE/IPI) carries out numerous bilateral international technical cooperation projects in the field of intellectual property, financed by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO and SECOCoop). In 2020, the IGE implemented…
As a result of climate change, the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, cyclones, intense rainfall and droughts have greatly increased, affecting the lives and livelihoods of people around the world. To limit global warming caused by human activity, it is necessary to limit cumulative emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse…
Considering intra-household inequalities to better guide public aid in Senegal Measuring poverty and inequality in a country is a central concern for development economists. This study will help guide policy measures to help people living below the poverty line. This measure is generally based on household consumption surveys, which fail to take account of the…
