Highlights

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... read more

The migration team held a two-day meeting with the Tunisian Office des Tunisiens a l’Etranger. The meeting discussed the role of public policy in engaging with its migrants abroad.  The event included presentations and discussions on country experiences with engaging the diaspora (Columbia,... read more

The CMI hosted Minister Delegate of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Pascal Canafin. Additionally, Ms. Lipiatou and Ms. Pancera from the European Commission's DG for Research and Innovation were given a presentation of CMI’s activities and discussed a possible partnership related to the... read more

The event included a brief presentation of the findings of the report as well as interventions from high-level “practitioners” from the South of the Mediterranean. The event also discussed concrete ways and means to take forward the Knowledge Economy agenda. The 60 participants included decision... read more

At the request of CRD, CDC/CMI launched a land management study in 2012. The workshop provided the opportunity for Lebanese experts to comment on the draft report before it was finalized and disseminated more broadly.

Chaired by Inger Andersen, World Bank VP for the MENA region, the CMI’s annual meeting brought together member countries and partners to discuss the Mediterranean's political, economic and social development issues and how the CMI can best contribute to broad-based and inclusive growth for the... read more

As part of The Center for Mediterranean Integration’s (CMI) Urban transport program, AFD in partnership with the ministry of Transport in Tunisia, and with assistance from CODATU, CEREMA and Transitec have organized the “National Urban Transport Days” from December 12th to 13th, 2012 in Tunis. The... read more

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... read more

The CDC-led mission had the objective of meeting with Jordanian counterparts to develop the program “Cities and Climate Change,” which is co-led by the WB, in several Jordanian intermediate cities. During the mission, meetings took place with the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation,... read more

The Steering Committee of the study, which is made up of Algerian officials and partners, as well as CDC and World Bank staff, assessed the final draft of phase 1 of the report “Assessment and Representation of Vulnerability Sources” and validated it. The second phase of the study, consisting of... read more

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... read more

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... read more

The CMI brought together about 70 representatives from the academia, civil societies and development institutions to discuss the findings of the new World Bank report entitled “Opening Doors: Gender Equality in the Middle East and North Africa.” Inger Andersen, World Bank Vice President for the... read more

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... read more

The objective of the workshop, a project of the Green Accounting and WAVES partnership, was to discuss the potential for green accounting and explore candidate countries in the MENA region. The “Natural Capital Accounting” workshop presented the rationale and tools to better monitor and manage... read more