Regional Water Security Initiative
Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Water Management Policies in The Mediterranean Region
Agenda: Regional Mediterranean Workshop on Desalination, Non Revenue Water Reduction and Public-Private Partnership under Water Scarcity
Regional Mediterranean Workshop on Desalination, Non Revenue Water Reduction and Public-Private Partnership under Water Scarcity
Nov 17, 2016 / Highlight
Context and Rationale
Currently almost a quarter of humanity live in countries of physical water scarcity, and this number may double in the next two decades. The challenge is particularly acute in the Mediterranean region, which is both the most water scarce region in the world and one of the most urbanized.
Faced with dwindling resources and...
MOOC : radicalisation et terrorisme
Oct 20, 2016 / Library
Le MOOC radicalisation et terrorisme vise à analyser le phénomène et à capitaliser sur la réflexion autour des moyens pour y remédier à l’échelle individuelle et collective. Il s’adresse à un large public et à tous les arabophones et francophones s’intéressant à la question. Le contenu de ce cours programmé sur 7 semaines propose...
Regional Knowledge Program on Water
Oct 20, 2016 / Program
Lead Organization(s)
Center for Mediterranean Integration
Partner Organization(s)
Agence Française de Développement
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
European Investment Bank
International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
Plan Bleu
World Bank
Union for the Mediterranean
Global...
Méditerranée une histoire à partager
«Génération radicale» : Rapport de Malek Boutih sur le djihadisme
Fikra 2015: Youssef Seddik
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Discours de Youssef Seddik: Philosophe, poète et anthropologue, dans le cadre du forum Fikra 2015, visant encourager la génération jeune au succès.
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Estimating Informal Trade across Tunisia’s Land Borders
Radicalisations ? Les paradoxes tunisiens
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
La tentation du Jihad intervient dans un contexte de double délitement du lien social et du lien national : lorsque des franges de la jeunesse se retrouvent littéralement «hors circuit». Mais le passage à l’acte, c’est-à-dire à la violence radicale n’en est pas pour autant automatique.
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After Ben Guerdane
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Tunisians will remember the March 7, 2016 terrorist incursion in the border town of Ben Guerdane for a long time. Analysts and officials have speculated that the aim of the assailants was to establish a Daech emirate near the Tunisian-Libyan border.
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Education Reform to Create Entrepreneurs
Oct 10, 2016 / Blog entry
Sur les deux versants de la Méditerranée, l’horloge démographique tourne implacablement : d’un côté, des actifs vieillissants et de l’autre des actifs en surnombre. Pourtant, quelle que soit la dynamique à l’œuvre, l’espace méditerranéen est confronté à un véritable défi : assurer aux jeunes de la région un avenir prospère, robuste et heureux, et...
Arab World Start-ups Need Partners, Pathways, and Talent to Access Markets
Sep 26, 2016 / Blog entry
L’accès aux marchés est un facteur critique de croissance pour les start-up du Moyen-Orient et de l’Afrique du Nord (MENA). Les start-up qui veulent se développer doivent, dès le premier jour, parier pour des stratégies de croissance régionale et non pas simplement nationales. Mais se frayer un chemin dans des pays étrangers est une opération...
Management of Groundwater Resources as Common Goods
Sep 26, 2016 / Library
Synthesis report including i) a presentation of the theoretical background of common-pool resources management and the main instruments available, with emphasis on decentralized, local-level solutions as elaborated by Elinor Ostrom (Nobel Prize 2009) and her followers, and ii) a series of groundwater management case studies from Northern and...
Digital Technologies for Economic Development in the Mediterranean
Sep 26, 2016 / MDF
Starts: Nov 4, 2016 Ends: Nov 4, 2016
Location: Villa Méditerranée, Marseille, France
A multi-partner dialogue to try to answer the following questions: What is the impact of digital technologies on economic development? How can digital technologies provide solutions to operational improvements to promote growth, employment and fight...
Young, Loud and Clear
Jul 20, 2016 / Library
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), being young is a superpower. It is the youth who have started revolutions, led their countries to freedom and made history. In this set of videos, ten of the region’s most aspiring youth speak about their generation’s achievements, challenges, dreams and legacy.
You may also wish to watch the full...
Youth Radicalization—Looking at the Supply Side
Jul 07, 2016 / Blog entry
La Tunisie est l’un des pays les plus sécularisés du monde arabe et est dotée de l’un des systèmes éducatifs les plus développés de cette région. Pourtant, c’est par milliers que les jeunes Tunisiens se tournent vers le djihadisme — un phénomène sans commune mesure avec ce que l’on observe ailleurs.
Pourquoi ? La réponse se trouve probablement...
The Paradox of Higher Education in MENA
Jun 30, 2016 / Blog entry
Ce billet a d’abord été publié sur Future Development.
Note : Texte du discours prononcé lors de la conférence intitulée Changement de paradigme dans l’enseignement tertiaire et organisée à Alger du 30 mai au 2 juin derniers.
La région du Moyen-Orient et de l’Afrique du Nord (MENA) est le berceau de l’enseignement supérieur,...
[Workshop] Preventing Violence and Radicalization in Schools
Jun 30, 2016 / Highlight
Context / Rationale
Violence and radicalization in schools, especially at the high school level, is a relatively new phenomenon in Tunisia. This challenge needs to be tackled collectively and with more force in order to minimise its impacts and progressively reduce its magnitude.
The workshop intended to begin a process of capacity building of...
Sustainable Urban Transport - Middle East and North Africa - Issue #1
Jun 22, 2016 / Library
First Webinar organized by the Community of Practice for Sustainable Urban Transport : How to implement a mass transport project?
Monday, July 18, 2016
Rabat 10:00 / 11:00 Algiers, Tunis / Paris 12:00 / 13h00 Beirut
The implementation of mass transit projects includes difficult challenges for many southern cities in the Mediterranean. With...
Community of Practice on Sustainable Urban Transport
Jun 22, 2016 / Program
Countries Targeted
Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, West Bank and Gaza, and also Libya, Syria and other MENA countries
Lead Organization(s)
Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Partners
CODATU (Cooperation for Urban Mobility in the Developing World)
CEREMA (Center for Studies and Expertise on Risks,...
From COP21 to COP22: Press Release
A Different University Model!
May 27, 2016 / Blog entry
Le projet stratégique intégré (Figure n°1) mené par l’Université Virtuelle de Tunis (UVT) depuis quelques années est un projet particulier. Il est né suite à une analyse profonde de la situation de l’université et répond à ses besoins et tient compte des freins qui entravent son développement. Le projet est aussi adapté à ses spécificités et est...
Renewables and Mediterranean Integration Discussion Group 1: Policy and Regulatory Framework
The Economics of Mediterranean Electricity Exchanges
From COP21 to COP22: Renewables and Mediterranean Integration
May 24, 2016 / Highlight
Context
The Mediterranean region is likely to figure prominently in the discussions taking place on the road from COP21 to COP22, and during the COP22 event itself. The Paris agreement addressed how much developing countries should take on climate change mitigation responsibilities, how developed countries should support developing countries...
From COP21 to COP22: Renewables and Mediterranean Integration - Agenda
5 Years After the Arab Spring, Were the Hopes of Tunisian Youth Ever Met?
May 17, 2016 / Blog entry
For so long, celebrating Tunisia usually went hand in hand with celebrating its youth. “Tunisian youth were rather the solution and not the problem” this was the slogan communicated throughout the Ben Ali tenure. The ousted president made youth-leveraging as his personal brand.
Over twenty years of branding and marketing to hide the ugly...
Mainstreaming Environment on Demand
May 11, 2016 / Blog entry
Plan Bleu, one of CMI’s partners, has recently finalized the Regional governance and knowledge generation project (ReGoKo), on behalf of Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Palestine. Running from January 2012 to October 2015, the GEF-funded initiative fostered the integration of environmental issues into sectoral and development policies of...