Promoting sustainable development and citizen-based management

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The program comprised 11 projects, during the period 2012-2015, in several key sectors: connection of people to the water and sewer networks, development of household waste sorting, recycling and re-use, access to social housing, electrification in remote rural areas. An innovative initiative called “Travessia” focused on a quick and crosscutting intervention when areas of extreme hardship are identified (construction of public facilities, health, incentives for sending children to school and vocational training).The AFD loan also allowed the State of Minas Gerais to pay off a longstanding debt to the main electricity company (CEMIG), which was a burden on local finances. The operation has freed up scope for action for the implementation of these public policies. In addition, a technical cooperation program promoting French know-how targets the reconversion of industrial and mining sites, urban mobility and the climate-energy strategy. It associates the Hauts-de-France Region.