📋 Tender Overview
An ECA delegation led by Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski Director of the ECA Office for North Africa visited the Tunisian capital Tunis on 3-5 October 2022. The ECA team met with senior policy makers including Minister of Economy and Planning Samir Saed Minister of Industry Mines and Energy Neila Nouira Gonji Minister of Agriculture Water Resources and Fisheries Mahmoud Elyes Hamza and Minister of Employment and Vocational Training Nasreddine Nsibi. The team also met with high level officials at the Ministry of Trade and Export Development the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Central Bank of Tunisia. Ms. Schwidrowski stressed the importance of the upcoming joint Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts of the ECA Offices for North and West Africa and Expert Group Meeting scheduled to take place under the themes Food and energy security in North and West Africa amid multiple crises and Crisis Resilience and Development Sustainability in North and West Africa on 1-3 November 2022 in Marrakech Morocco. Discussions with the Tunisian officials included the offices technical support to Tunisia as the country is facing COVID-19 climate change and the Ukraine-Russia crises and its work in support to the governments current economic and social priorities especially in areas such as national strategy design and implementation employment digitalisation renewable energy innovation SMEs as well as food and energy security. Their exchanges also included options to extend the existing collaboration to areas such as macroeconomic modelling for better forecasting and reform monitoring assessing the impact of COVID-19 on Tunisian enterprises and the Ukraine-Russia war on food security job creation especially for women and youths digitalisation innovation the circular economy agricultural policy for an increased food autonomy the promotion of youth entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector mining clean energy water scarcity and social protection. Last but not least the ECA delegation met with the UN Resident Coordinator for Tunisia Arnaud Peral to discuss next steps for a strengthened UN cooperation in support to Tunisia water scarcity youth green economy and to brief him on the introductory workshop on the African Continental Free Trade Area AfCFTA held for the benefit of Libyan stakeholders in Tunis on 3-7 October 2022.
