News & Events
04/01/2012 - The Migration and Development Fund’s oversight committee recently approved a series of grants amounting to € 1.4 million to six remittances funded local development projects across the African continent.
Categories: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo, Migration and Development Initiative
09/12/2011 - The agricultural sector in the Maghreb is using natural resources so intensively that there is an urgent need to install government control mechanisms at both the national and local level. The rapid growth in the use of ground water for irrigation has resulted in a major increase in agricultural productivity, but the practice is unsustainable because of the over-use of aquifers and salinisation of the water and soil.
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Water Supply & Sanitation
01/12/2011 - The low absolute poverty rate in North African countries is often used to demonstrate the strengths of the economic models of these countries. However, measuring poverty at the level of the nation often masks important variations in regional poverty rates.
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, Poverty Reduction
24/11/2011 - Le Conseil d’administration de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé à Tunis, le 23 novembre 2011, un prêt de 224 millions d’euros pour financer le programme d’appui au développement du secteur financier – phase II (PADESFI II) du Maroc.
Categories: Morocco, Economic & Financial Governance
23/11/2011 - Youth unemployment across North Africa is one of the highest in the world. The paper, Tackling Youth Unemployment in the Maghrebit identifies the main causes and gauges the extent of youth unemployment in the Maghreb. It also assessesing initiatives taken to address the problem and proposes options for policy makers.
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Youth, Human and Social Development
01/11/2011 - On 2 November 2011, the governing bodies of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) approved updates to Morocco’s investment plan under the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and a project that will finance Morocco’s ambitious Wind Energy Plan through the implementation of wind/hydro hybrid generating systems that will increase capacity by 1,070 MW and the expansion of rural electrification to 79,436 households in 24 of Morocco’s most isolated and vulnerable districts.
Categories: Morocco, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Environment
31/10/2011 - African states came closer to finalizing a continental programme for the development of vital infrastructure as talks ended in Morocco at the weekend.
Categories: Morocco, Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA)
14/10/2011 - In its new publication, Islamic Banking and Finance in North Africa, the African Development Bank assesses the state of Islamic banking in the region and explains why its use has been limited. The report considers the future potential of Islamic finance, including its possible alignment with North Africa’s development goals, particularly its ability to increase the diversification of funding sources.
Categories: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia
28/09/2011 - Even though Africa contributes roughly 7% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the continent can play an important role in mitigating the GHGs emissions and reducing the harmful impacts of climate change. Determining which actions to take is a complex process, but developing nations have been given latitude to propose nationally appropriate measures to contribute to global mitigation efforts while taking into account their development objectives.
Categories: Morocco, South Africa, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Environment
16/09/2011 - The Deauville Partnership, set up at the G8 meeting in the French seaside town in May 2011 with the aim of supporting political and economic transformation in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Morocco, has welcomed five new members.
Categories: France, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Deauville Partnership
