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From National Framework to Local Action: supporting the transformation of waste management in Cameroon
Through the EU-funded Urban Platform Project in Cameroon (PUC), Expertise France has supported the Cameroonian authorities in establishing the national policy and strategy on hygiene, sanitation and m...
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Why sexual and reproductive rights remain a great challenge in West Africa
Sexual and reproductive health services have been strengthened in many West African countries. However, the mere existence of these services does not guarantee their effective access, their quality or...
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L’Initiative: Investing in Human Resources to Strengthen Health Systems
Health professionals are at the heart of care, service quality, and health system resilience. To help address personnel shortages, insufficient training capacities, and regional inequalities, L’Initia...
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Archiving audiovisual records and architectural cultural heritage
Archives play an essential role in governance, transparency and the handing down of history, as the means to safeguard historical records of states and society. And yet they are exposed to many threat...
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Ebola in DRC: “The laboratory plays a crucial role, confirming alerts and triggering response.”
In Kinshasa, the Laboh-Kin project implemented by Expertise France with funding from Agence Française de Développement (AFD) contributes to capacity building in laboratories and improving epidemiologi...
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Recalibrating development and ocean preservation with the blue economy
Aquatic and coastal eco-systems are the scene of much human activity. At sunrise, over 12 million small-scale fishermen take to the sea along the African coastlines. Their catch feeds entire communi...
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Greater cooperation for museums and culture in favour of heritage and living together in harmony
The agenda for renewal has a clear-sighted aim: establishing a new relationship rooted in ethics, embracing culture and heritage as the means to achieve cohesion, social and economic transformation. F...
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A teacher’s quest to protect childhood in a disaster-prone community
Mozambique is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters, with recurrent cyclones, floods, and droughts disrupting lives and damaging critical infrastructure. In the Z...
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Keeping Education Systems Going in Crisis Areas
In 2025, the educational emergency in crisis areas was huge: the number of children and teenagers completely out of school reached nearly 400 million (more than half of whom were young girls) accordin...
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Supporting cities and the industrial sector in the face of the global climate challenge
Aligned with the priorities of several international frameworks, including Sustainable Development Goal 11 and the Paris Agreement, Expertise France supports cities and states in their energy and clim...
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Ensuring equal opportunities and social cohesion through education
At the start of the new school year in France and in many countries around the world, Expertise France reiterates its commitment to quality and equitable education for all, and to the promotion of lif...
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Patrimoine 3ooo: Promoting emblematic Mediterranean heritage sites
Led by Expertise France and its Tunisian partners, the European Patrimoine 3000 project aims to restore and promote several historical sites in Tunisia, with a view to developing the potential for cul...
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Marine areas of island territories, central to the challenges of preserving the oceans
At the United Nations Ocean Conference, to be held in Nice from 9 to 13 June 2025, governments, companies, NGOs and scientists will be gathering to discuss the damage caused to the world’s oceans, whi...
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Boosting the economy by fostering youth employment in Rwanda
Since 2019, the Agence française de développement (AFD) and Expertise France have been supporting the Rwandan Ministry of Education by assisting Rwanda Polytechnic and the Rwanda TVET Board in promoti...
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Preserving the royal palaces of Abomey
In 1985 the royal palaces of Abomey were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site roster. Since 2019, with funding from AFD, Expertise France has been coordinating technical diagnostics in order to...
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Promoting cultural heritage in Cameroon
Expertise France began working with the National Museum of Cameroon in 2018 when Cameroon's Ministry of Arts and Culture (MINAC) decided to develop the museum to enhance the country's cultural diversi...
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Strengthening the health sector post-Ebola in Guinea
Expertise France has been working with Guinea on its health sector for over ten years. Post-Ebola, a variety of projects funded by France and Europe were deployed in Guinea in order to promote health...
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Sport, a theme being developed in the agency
Implemented since 2020 in Morocco and Nigeria, the Basketball Experience programme is coming to an end in these two countries. It has achieved positive results, promoting the methodology of using spor...
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Supporting Diaspora Entrepreneurship Between Europe and Africa
Expertise France has taken the opportunity of the closing seminar for Meet Africa in Benguerir, in Morocco, and the Ancrages Forum in Lille on 12 June to reaffirm its commitment to diaspora entreprene...
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Strengthening women’s economic empowerment in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries: What role for business environment reforms?
To tackle the persisting barriers that prevent the full economic participation of women, in particular in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, programmes such as the ICR Facility (Investment Clim...
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