Lebanon’s National Volunteer Service Program - Kamen Braham Bio
Lebanon’s National Volunteer Service Program - Marwa El Kik Bio
[VIRTUAL WORKSHOP] Lebanon’s National Volunteer Service Program
Oct 28, 2015 / Highlight
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, virtual workshops are organized regularly, thus creating a space for practitioners from the region to share their operational experience, knowledge, and best practices on...
Lebanon’s National Volunteer Service Program - Presentation
Lebanon’s National Volunteer Service Program - Agenda
Join a Global Discussion on Building Resilience in Syria & the Subregion
Oct 27, 2015 / Highlight
The United Nations Development Program is seeking to create a fundamental shift in the way the international community is responding to the continuing crisis in Syria by holding a Resilience Development Forum in Jordan in November 2015. You have a unique opportunity to be part of that effort and to help shape a new Resilience Agenda for...
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Assessing the Economic and Social Impact of the Syrian Conflict and ISIS
Oct 20, 2015 / Library
A study that highlights how prices and unemployment have increased, and refugees and IDPs entering the labor market are pushing wages down. Published in April 2015 by the World Bank.
Lebanon - Economic and social impact assessment of the Syrian conflict
Oct 20, 2015 / Library
To provide a solid basis to define its needs and frame its priorities in terms of the specific assistance it seeks from the international community as well as to inform its own domestic policy response, the Government of Lebanon (GoL) requested the World Bank to lead an Economic and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Syrian conflict on Lebanon...
The Impact of Syrians Refugees on the Turkish Labor Market
Oct 20, 2015 / Library
Evidence-based study on the impact of Syrian refugees on the Turkish Labor market. Published by the World Bank in August 2015.
Initiative of the Luxembourg Presidency for Youth Employment through Vocational Training in the Maghreb Countries
Oct 14, 2015 / Highlight
Marseille, France, 21-22 September, 2015: The Center for Mediterranean Integration co-organised with the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union the first technical meeting on the Initiative of the Luxembourg Presidency for youth employment through vocational training in the Maghreb countries. The aim of this meeting was to...
Economic Transitions in the Mediterranean
[High-Level Workshop] Launch of the MENA Urbanization Knowledge Platform
Sep 17, 2015 / Highlight
The Urbanization Knowledge Platform (UKP) for the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) stems from a partnership between Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), the World Bank (WB), and the Arab Urban Development Institute (AUDI). The Platform was officially launched on September 17-18, 2012, during a high-level workshop entitled “...
Craft Trade Sector: Organisational Structures and Innovative Approaches
Sep 16, 2015 / Highlight
The CoMun-GIZ program, in partnership with Medcities and the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), organized a two days exchange on « Organisational structures of the Craft Trade Sector and Innovative Approaches » on September 10, 2015 in Tunis and September 11, 2015, in Sousse, Tunisia.
Part of the CMI-Multi Donors Trust...
Territorial Cohesion and Inclusive Growth in the Mediterranean Region undergoing transition
Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) Newsletter #16 [September 2015]
Disease, Cure, Prescription: Do We Need a Rethink on Migration of the Skilled?
Feuille de route pour la transition énergétique dans le batiment en Mediterranée
Le cluster solaire/MCIC, un outil pour appuyer le developpement industriel vert
Qui paie quoi en matière de transport urbain ? Guide de bonnes pratiques
Jul 31, 2015 / Library
Le présent “Guide de bonnes pratiques de financement du transport urbain” met en relief, sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité, des expériences significatives de mobilisation des principales possibilités de financement du secteur. Il s’agit ainsi de fournir une base de référence à tout décideur, du Sud comme du Nord, qui serait amené à participer à la...
L’eau en Afrique : à Quel Prix?
Urban Mobility in Mediterranean Cities: Feedback & Perspectives
Jul 31, 2015 / Highlight
The program « Sustainable Urban Transport » of the CMI, coordinated and funded by the AFD, that delegated implementation to CODATU, started in 2010 with an inaugural conference in Damascus (Syria).
In its first phase the program activity has consisted mainly in the organization of regional seminars and thematic workshops (Damascus...
OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015
Jul 20, 2015 / Library
The digital economy now permeates countless aspects of the world economy, impacting sectors as varied as banking, retail, energy, transportation, education, publishing, media or health. Information and Communication Technologies are transforming the ways social interactions and personal relationships are conducted, with fixed, mobile and broadcast...
[Video] Building Integrated Social Protection Delivery Systems in MENA Countries
Jul 14, 2015 / Library
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries spend, on average, 6 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) on general subsidies: 4.6 and 1.4 percent of their GDP on fuel and food subsidies respectively. On the other hand, MENA countries spend a mere 0.7% of their GDP on targeted social safety nets (SSNs), most of which are fragmented and...
Belgian eGovernment strategy: exploiting the eID
ISA, ISA2 and interoperability
Concept Note: Knowledge and Capacity Building on the Establishment of Integrated Social Protection Systems
Highlights on the State of Play of Interoperability in Europe 2014
Country case studies on coordinated implementation of social protection floors: Indonesia, Mongolia, and others