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© EuroMed@Change 2013 1 © EuroMed@Change 2013 2 Table of contents 1. Mediterranean overview...............................p.3 Building EuroMed partnerships Authors 2. Market trends and opportunities....................p.4 This guide is a Doing business toolkit dedicated to This Business guide has been prepared by Jean-Noël 3. Foreign direct investments............................p.5 clusters, SMEs, or entrepreneurs interested in Durvy, with contributions from Nadège Bouget from 4. Key players...................................................p.6 developing business partnerships in the Green Urban the Fondation Sophia Antipolis. ANIMA Investment services sector in Lebanon. It provides an overview of network provided its support for the proofreading 5. Recent National policies....................................p.7 the main opportunities available for the private (Manal Tabet), the FDI data (Zoé Luçon, Amina Ziane 6. Selected programmes & initiatives.................p.9 sector, as well as concrete and useful data to those Cherif) and the layout (Lauriane Ammouche) 7. Major business events..................................p.10 interested to go further (contacts, agenda of events, etc.). Disclaimer This publication has been produced with the support References of the European Commission. The contents of this List of acronyms The Mediterranean Business Guide, focus on Green publication are the sole responsibility of Fondation Sophia Antipolis and can under no circumstances be Urban Services in Tunisia has been prepared by . ANIMA-MIPO: Mediterranean Foreign Direct regarded as reflecting the views of the European Investments and partnerships announcements ANIMA Investment Network under the Union. EuroMed@Change Project, a Preparatory Action Observatory implemented and managed by initiated by the European Parliament and Copyright ANIMA implemented by the European Commission (DG © EuroMed@Change May 2013. No part of this . FDI: Foreign Direct Investment Enterprise and Industry). publication may be reproduced without express . MED10 countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, EuroMed@Change proposes new dynamics for SME authorisation. All rights reserved. Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and cluster internationalisation between Europe and 4 Turkey. targeted partner countries: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt . n.a.: Not available and Lebanon. It is managed by four organisations from across Europe (ANIMA Investment network as Project leader, the European Business Innovation Centre Network, INNO AG and the Fondation Sophia Antipolis as partners) and it coordinates with more than 45 associated regional business, finance and innovation networks. © EuroMed@Change 2013 3 Mediterranean Overview With a continuously increasing population, a running an estimated 11.8 million in 2010, according to UN consequences on energy consumption and new urbanisation, insufficient transport networks and an report. Tunisia has managed to eradicate slums. The patterns should be required. accelerating industrialisation, investment in public main problems for slums remain sanitation (Egypt) . Worsening water shortages. Water works, construction, water and environment are more and insufficient living area (Morocco). There is a management is certainly one of the major challenges than ever key for the Mediterranean countries. The steady shift to urban based economies. For instance, faced by these cities. The city of the future will need total population of the Southern and Eastern Cairo and Alexandria are the 2 engines of Egyptian to better optimize the use of water, but also to Mediterranean countries has more than doubled in the economy (57% of industry in Cairo region and 22.5% improve its return to the natural environment in such last 30 years, to reach 270 million people in 2011. in Alexandria) as well as Casablanca in Morocco (55% a way to be absorbed by the ecosystem. of the industrial production of the country). 63.7% of . Waste management resulting from the the population is living in urban cities in Tunisia (75% increase of the population in urban areas as well as Cairo (Egypt) is at the top of the African city size in 2030), 43.4% in Egypt (50% in 2030), 58.3% in those linked to remaining poor social conditions of ranking with over 11 million population. Alexandria is Morocco (69% in 2030). living is also a major challenge. The objective should n°6 with 4.3 million, Casablanca n°13 with 4.1 million, not only be to increase waste recycling but also to Rabat n°26 with 23 million and Fez n°45 with 1.4 Nevertheless, urban management institutions and train citizens to help them reducing the current million. Beirut (1.2 million) and Tripoli (210 000) are structures need to be improved and they lack quantity of waste produced. the main cities in Lebanon. Tunis and Sfax, the two decision-making autonomy and financial resources, as . Raising sea levels as a result of climate main cities of Tunisia are representing a total of 1.1 they are still centralised at the national level. This change which are likely to affect settlements in coastal million and each city has less than 1 million question was under debates before the Spring areas. Sea level rise is accelerating from 1.8 mm/year population. revolution in Egypt and Tunisia. from 1961 to 1993 to 3.1 mm/year from 1993 to The demographic and economic main characteristics 2003. Cities like Alexandria and Casablanca or Tunis of these cities were well established by the beginning Main Challenges could at long term suffer from the effects of climate st of the 21 century. The rate of urban demographic Mediterranean cities are confronted with major change. Main problems relate to waste management, has noticeably slowed down. The peri-urban sprawl challenges: infrastructures and environment sanitation with and overcrowding of lower income districts in the . The high cost and rapid appreciation of land potential effects on the access to fresh water for sixties have been the targets of vigorous public and the heavy bureaucracy in land and properties urban use. Those cities being close to water scarcity. policies over the last 20 years, with perhaps the management. Rising land values have led to an On the basis of this short analyse of the main exception of Beirut confronted to a long war period increase in density. As a result, the quality of urban challenges related to urban development, the report and fights between the different communities. Egypt, environment has suffered and both infrastructures and will focus on following urban services: water Morocco and Tunisia have reduced their collective transport are overloaded. This has, of course, some management, waste management and urban public number of slums dwellers from 20.8 million in 1990 to transportation. © EuroMed@Change 2013 5 Market Trends & Opportunities Tunisia, a semi-arid country, faces climatic challenges country is an example of good planning and trips (Especially the "Home-Working") to reduce fuel because of irregular and inadequate rainfall, a fragile management. consumption and traffic jam. Tunis is the centre of the ecosystem, limited natural resources and the risk of over transport system as the largest city having the largest exploitation of these few resources. With its 1300 km of Waste Management port and a light transit system. Solid waste management constitutes a heavy burden for coast, the Tunisian littoral has various landscapes and Railways: Tunisia inherited much of its rail transport the concerned structures and communities. In fact, the important natural resources under a variety of pressure, system from the French, and the Tunisian Government good management of waste necessitates the including pollution, exploitation of sea resources and a has developed infrastructure further. The railways are mobilisation of considerable material means and concentration of human and economic activities along operated by the Société Nationale de Chemise de Fer specialised human resources, as well as state of the art the coast causing environmental problems linked to the Tunisiens (SNCFT), the Tunisian national railway. A techniques, in addition to the coordination between the fragility of the ecosystems. Urbanisation is the main modernisation programme is currently underway. It has different parties involved. The municipal solid waste issue affecting Tunisia. a total of 2,152 km consisting of 468 km of 1,435 mm generated in Tunisia amounts to 2.25 MT. The municipal standard gauge rail ways and 1,674 kilometres of 1,000 Water Management solid waste production per person varies depending on mm metre gauge. Tunis has a light rail system. In the Tunisia has achieved the highest access rates to water the area: it is 0.10 to 0.25 in rural areas, while it is 0.65 south of Tunisia, there is a narrow gauge railway called supply and sanitation services among the MENA to 0.85 in urban areas. The waste reception capacity of the Sfax-Gafsa Railway which delivers phosphates and countries through sound infrastructure policy. 96% of the landfills is currently 1,765,000 tons per year, iron ore to the harbour at Sfax. Tunisia has rail links with urban dwellers and 52% of the rural population already representing 78% of total household production. the neighbouring country of Algeria via the Ghardimaou- have access to improved sanitation. By the end of 2006, Additional capacity will soon be in operation for 110,000 Souk Ahras line, and another connection to Tébessa, the access to safe drinking water became close to tons per year. Collection is provided by the municipalities

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