North Africa Regional Integration Strategy Paper (RISP-NA) 2020-2026

The North Africa Regional Integration Strategy Paper (RISP-NA) 2020-2026 has been designed to support the efforts of six regional member countries (RMCs) of the African Development Bank Group, namely Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.
RISP-NA 2020-2026 has gone through an unusually long process given the Bank's experience in the area. Several factors have delayed the RISP-NA finalisation process. Internal reasons, particularly the revision of the Regional Integration Strategic Framework (RISF) 2018-2025, also contributed to delays in RISP-NA preparation as well as the decision in 2019 to adopt a bespoke approach before favouring a formal RISP which incorporates it as a cross-cutting theme. However, the new strategic framework provides a better response to North Africa’s regional integration challenges and issues. The proposed approach is pragmatic, progressive and geometrically variable for open regionalism. It is based on the private sector and will enable the Bank to concurrently support North Africa regional integration and integration between North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, which the six North African countries have included in their recent priorities.