AFD
September 2011
Main points of 26.09.2011 videoconference on the establishment of the “EM5” programme
Present: ILO: Alfredo Lazarte (ILO/CRISIS), Yousra Hamed (social finance programme, employment sector), Luca Fedi (Africa Department), [pouvez-vous SVP completer? Je n’ai malheureusement pas pu noter les noms de chacun]… World Bank: Rebekka Grun (MENA) EU Tunis delegation : Nabil Ben Nacef, Régis Méritan AFD: Virginie Diaz (Research dpt), Hervé Dubreuil (Employment and professional training), Emmanuel Comolet (MENA) and Olivier Ray (MENA) CMI / AFD: Jocelyne Vauquelin
Agenda points: 1. to present each organisation’s core competences / capacities on the issue of social protection in the MENA region, comment the concept note and activity timeline, and say what each partner would like to get out of the programme; 2. to discuss the modes of collaboration in EM5, and potential financing capacities of each partner on the different components of EM5; 3. to discuss the next steps.
1. Interest in the programme, capacities and requests of the partners ILO: The ILO is not a “donor organisation”, but an organisation of technical capacity. Outside of the organisation of a few workshops, their main input will be the mobilization of its expertise. The ILO has many different areas of expertise that could be mobilized around EM5: employment, social protection, support to the renovation of social dialogue, labour and social protection statistics… The key will be to find a convenient way to mobilise the relevant stakeholders at the relevant moments (participation in workshops, study steering committees, technical assistance, etc.). World Bank: The World Bank is in the process of writing its social protection strategy. EM5 will be one of the ways through which the background analysis and consultation process for this report will take place. The Bank has three main interests in EM5: (i)
the organisation of workshops in close collaboration with partners from MENA countries;
(ii)
evidence generation: surveys, especially demand-side needs; and rigorous impact evaluations (interest in research on social safety nets) ;
(iii)
operations manuals.
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