News & Events
- From: 24/01/2012
- To: 26/01/2012
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
“The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) is committed to work with the Pan-African Lawyers’ Union (PALU) towards the creation of a better legal environment that creates an unquestionable stability necessary to attract national and foreign investments in Africa,” said ALSF’s CEO, Stephen Karangizi, as a prelude to a joint ALSF-PALU capacity building seminar that will be held from 24 to 26 January 2012, in Tunis.
Categories: Tunisia, African Legal Support Facility, Finance
19/01/2012 - African Development Bank (AfDB) Group president Donald Kaberuka, visited President Moncef Marzouki of Tunisia at the Carthage Palace on Thursday. The visit followed the one-year anniversary, on January 14, of the Tunisian revolution. Mr. Kaberuka congratulated the president, the Tunisian people and their elected leaders on the success of the country’s democratic transition process.
Categories: Tunisia, President's Corner
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
16/12/2011 - On 14 December, the African Development Bank hosted a panel discussion on the potential of Islamic finance in North Africa. Focus was on the Bank’s capacity to promote the development of the region following the financial strain North Africa has undergone as a result of this year's political instability.
Categories: Tunisia, Economic & Financial Governance
16/12/2011 - Le gouvernement tunisien et la Banque africaine de développement ont officiellement lancé, le 14 décembre, le programme national d’alimentation en eau potable en milieu rural en Tunisie. L’accord de financement, de 183 millions de dinars tunisiens (95 millions d’euros) a été signé à Tunis, le 19 octobre 2011. Ce programme vise à soutenir la stratégie d’accès à l’eau potable dans les zones rurales, une des priorités de la Tunisie. Des représentants de la Direction générale du génie rural et de l’exploitation des eaux, ainsi que des Commissariats régionaux de développement agricole, étaient présents à la cérémonie.
Categories: Tunisia, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative
12/12/2011 - « Agissons contre la corruption aujourd’hui, avec le département de l’intégrité et de la lutte contre la corruption» : C’est le slogan adopté par le Groupe de la BAD, pour commémorer, le 9 décembre, la Journée internationale contre la corruption.
Categories: Tunisia, Integrity and Anti-Corruption
- From: 24/11/2011
- To: 25/11/2011
- Location: Tunis, Tunisia
Between 24 and 25 November, the African Development Bank (AfDB) hosted an Africa-wide consultation to review the first External Assessment of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI).
Categories: Tunisia, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation 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
25/11/2011 - The Members of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) held their meeting at the Sheraton Hotel in Tunis on 22 and 23 November 2011.
Categories: Tunisia, Infrastructure
