Do Global Rankings Tell the Whole Truth about Universities in the Arab World?
Sep 14, 2015 / Blog entry
Le choix d’une université est un moment décisif dans une vie, qui peut déterminer toute une carrière et les perspectives d’avenir d’un individu. Pour les étudiants du Moyen-Orient et d’Afrique du Nord, comme pour les autres, cette décision repose sur de nombreux facteurs, d’importance inégale. Cependant, dans le monde d’aujourd’hui, ce choix est...
#SheIsResilient: Young Women Entrepreneurs from MENA Build the Resilience of their Cities
Call for Green Entrepreneurs: SwitchMed Training Programme in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine
Sep 14, 2015 / Highlight
Are you a green entrepreneur? Do you want to launch in the market a new green product or service but you don't know where to start? Would you like to learn how to develop a green business model that creates environmental and social value?
Apply to one of the first highly qualified green entrepreneurship training programme in the...
Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) Newsletter #16 [September 2015]
Public Response of the Education Sector to the Syrian Refugees Crisis in Lebanon
Syria’s Neighbours Seek Help with Refugee Crisis
Sep 08, 2015 / Library
Interviews with Ferid BELHAJ, Country Director for the Middle East at the World Bank and Salaheddin AL BASHIR, Chairman of the Board of Justice Center for Legal Aid in Jordan, in the context of the high level stakeholder conference on the Syrian refugee crisis “From Resilience to Development” jointly organized by the CMI, the World Bank,...
Les pays d'accueil offrent au monde un bien public mondial
Sep 08, 2015 / Library
Interviews with Ferid BELHAJ, Country Director for the Middle East at the World Bank; Alain BIFANI, Director General at the Lebanese Ministry of Finance; Amin AWAD, Director of Bureau for the Middle East and North Africa at UNHCR; and Olivier Ray, Head of the Crisis Prevention and Conflict Unit at the French Development Agency.
Interviews...
Syria Refugee Crisis: Supporting Mashreq Countries in their Development Agenda
Sep 08, 2015 / Highlight
Sixty decision-making representatives from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkey and European countries affected by the refugee crisis, development and financing partners, practitioners and technical experts on fragility and conflict gathered in Marseille to discuss the long term development implications of the refugee crisis in the...
Press Release: Call for a Reinvigorated International Response to Support Mashreq Countries Hosting Syrian Refugees in their Development Agenda
Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) Newsletter #15 [July - Aug 2015]
Agenda: "From Resilience to Development"
Sep 05, 2015 / Library
A high level stakeholder conference on the Syrian refugee crisis.
Press Invitation: "From Resilience to Development"
Sep 05, 2015 / Library
A high level stakeholder conference on the Syrian refugee crisis.
Participant List: "From Resilience to Development"
Sep 05, 2015 / Library
A high level stakeholder conference on the Syrian refugee crisis.
Concept Note: "From Resilience to Development"
Sep 05, 2015 / Library
A high level stakeholder conference on the Syrian refugee crisis.
“Mediterranean Debates” TV Show on Migrations
Sep 01, 2015 / Highlight
The CMI is partnering with France 24 TV channel and the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM) for the co-production of new trilingual TV debate show series: “The Mediterranean Debates”.
The first edition will be dedicated to a key issue that is on everyone’s agenda: refugees and migration across the Mediterranean.
The show...
Projected Impacts of Climate Change in MENA
[World Bank E-Learning Course] Investment Planning toward Low Emissions Development
Aug 27, 2015 / Highlight
This course compiles knowledge and lessons learned during the design and implementation of investment plans funded through the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries (SREP). The objective of this course is to teach policymakers, planners and climate change...
[World Bank E-Learning Course] Urban Crime and Violence Prevention
Aug 27, 2015 / Highlight
Urban crime and violence constitute a serious impediment to economic and social development globally. In many urban centers across the world, high crime and violence rates are undermining growth, threatening human welfare and impeding social development.
Within this context, the aim of this course is to enhance the capacity of communities and...
Improving Refugee Integration Policies: National Policies for an International Challenge
Aug 26, 2015 / Library
As record numbers of refugees attempt dangerous Mediterranean crossings to escape instability and poverty in parts of Northern Africa and the Middle East, countries in Europe and North America have struggled to craft helpful policy responses –from the role of nations within a global protection system to the mechanics of asylum seeker processing...
Le cluster solaire/MCIC, un outil pour appuyer le developpement industriel vert
Feuille de route pour la transition énergétique dans le batiment en Mediterranée
Women for Resilient Cities Grand Finale: #SheIsResilient
Aug 17, 2015 / Highlight
Context
While around the world, the number of disasters has almost doubled since the 1980s, in MENA, the average number of natural disasters has almost tripled over the same period. Approximately 40 million people have been affected by over 350 natural disasters between 1981 and 2010. Vulnerabilities are on the rise across the region, with risks...
[Workshop] Regulating Water Services Provision in MENA
Aug 05, 2015 / Highlight
The World Bank and the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) in partnership with GIZ and the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), are organizing the first regional workshop on Regulating Water Services Provision in MENA in Marseille, France, on July 28-30th, 2015.
The workshop brings together water and sanitation service...
Agenda LUTP 2015 Marseille
I Have a Dream: The fight against Climate Change & Economic Development are Not Incompatible
Jul 31, 2015 / Blog entry
L’opinion commune veut que le changement climatique exacerbe la pauvreté et nuise à la croissance économique. Le développement économique a contribué à une augmentation insoutenable des émissions de gaz à effet de serre qui déstabilisent le système climatique mondial. Et beaucoup conviennent aujourd’hui que le changement climatique entrave le...
Over extraction of Groundwater Resources: What Are The Solutions?
Jul 31, 2015 / Library
The amount of water extracted from aquifers worldwide has increased threefold in the past fifty years, leading to an aggravated overdraft of these common resources. This “pumping race” brings about major adverse economic, environmental and social impacts. However, economic analysis and evidence-based knowledge teach us that it is possible to...
Facing Water Scarcity in the Mediterranean
Jul 31, 2015 / Library
Pressure on water resources has reached critical levels in many countries in the Mediterranean Basin. Sophisticated water mobilization strategies have been implemented but physical, financial and environmental constraints linked to such supply-side approach demonstrate that better management of already mobilized water is necessary. Acting upon...
L’eau en Afrique : à Quel Prix?
Mobilizing MENA Diaspora - Expert’s View – Uri DADUSH
Jul 21, 2015 / Library
Mr. Uri DADUSH, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace discusses the role of the diaspora in the development of MENA countries. Interview conducted in the context of the workshop on Mobilizing Middle East and North Africa Diaspora for Global Integration, Investment, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer, organized by the World...
