With newspaper headlines focused on violence and  political upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa region, it is easy  to forget that an annual beginning is also underway. Children from the Mashreq  to the Maghreb have started going back to school. Parents are buying school  supplies for little ones and millions of teenagers are going...

Please keep an eye out for the upcoming release of 'Paper Trails', the new International Labor Mobility (ILM) Discussion Notes Series. This series will highlight ongoing work, discuss emerging findings, and share ideas across the three ILM program areas. 

In order to ensure a constant follow-up to the face-to-face trainings and knowledge activities provided within the Community of Practice on Employment and Social Safety Nets, the World Bank organizes a set of virtual workshops. The following one focused on Lebanon’s use of Proxy Means Testing (PMT).   Objectives The goal of this virtual mini-...

Governments and non-governmental actors in migrant sending and receiving countries are preparing for increased levels of skilled labor migration. While the impact of regular migration on the development of both types of countries has become obvious – at least with regard to the volume and impact of remittances – there is still a significant lack...

Upon request from the Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment and with the aim of providing a systematic analysis to understand how the Government of Tunisia could improve its policies and capacities to better seize the opportunities of international employment in different types of destination markets, the World Bank prepared the policy...

With the aim of assessing practical ways to make social security rights portable, the ILM team has started to take stock of existing portability agreements around the world and in the EU-MENA context and to identify key design gaps. On this basis, the team has gathered leading international experts to develop a methodology to identify concrete...

Organized by the World Bank, the CMI, the French Development Agency (AFD), and the Center for Global Development, in partnership with Morocco's Ministry for Moroccans Residing Abroad as well as with several international universities, the conference brought leading international researchers and senior policy makers together to discuss the impacts...

CoMun and the CDC organized regional dialogue between municipalities in Morocco and Tunisia to exchange on citizen participation. Key interest was dedicated to supporting cross-border experience-sharing on participatory urban planning, especially in the fields of waste management, city development strategies and urban mobility.

The retreat aimed to bring together staff as a team and to brainstorm on actions to be taken in order to give substance to our shared objectives: Giving direction for the coming year of CMI activities, discussing the Roadmap 2.0 to manage its implementation, sharing views on administrative issues and work environment.

This event brought together about 1,000 civil society members from the Mediterranean, and the CMI participated in the following sessions: “The Mediterranean in 2020: Society &Values,” “What Opportunities for Youth, What Societies for Tomorrow?,” “Social Cohesion in a Context of Crisis,” “A Green Economy for a Sustainable Mediterranean,” and a...

On the basis of the requests expressed by different government bodies during an earlier mission of the International Labor Mobility team to Morocco (Oct. 2012), a workshop for institutions working on diaspora related activities took place on March 20 at the World Bank office in Rabat. The following topics were covered in the event, which was...

Cities Alliance and the CMI (i) presented the regional Joint Work Program created under the aegis of the two institutions, and their commitment to collaborate in providing multi-year support to Tunisian local and national government; and (ii) gave the floor to international experts who presented a wider analysis on the potential and challenge of...

Upon request from the Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment and with the aim of providing a systematic analysis to understand how the Government of Tunisia could improve its policies and capacities to better seize the opportunities of international employment in different types of destination markets, the World Bank prepared the policy...

The objective of the workshop (organized by WB/CMI) was to present and discuss the results of a CMI-World Bank study on reducing water losses with case studies from several target countries in the MENA region (e.g. Morocco, Tunisia, Malta, Albania, and Cyprus). A total of 55 participants from 16 countries from MENA, ECA, and other European...