The Courier - N°159 - Sept- Oct 1996 Dossier Investing in People Country Reports: Mali ; Western Samoa: CTA-Bulletin: News round-up: European development fund

The Courier - N°159 - Sept- Oct 1996 Dossier Investing in People Country Reports: Mali ; Western Samoa
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Acnowledgements

Meeting points

Ieremiah Tabai, Secretary General of the Forum Secretariat

ACP

A success story for African mining

Joint Assembly to consider climate problem

ACP-EU Council in Apia

Kenya's economy in the 1990s

Country report

Mali : An omnipresent sense of history

Three republics to create one democracy

Interview with Ali N. Diallo, President of the National Assembly

Profile

Interview with Amadou Seydou Traoré, opposition leader and USRDA spokesman

The magnetism of the unfamiliar... but unexotic

Mali-EU cooperation

NGOs finally achieve tangible results

Western Samoa

A new spirit of enterprise

An interview with Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

Profile

Marketing a tropical idyIl

Interview with opposition leader Tupua Tamasese Efi

Western Samoa-EU cooperation

Dossier

Investing in people

A much needed new focus for SAPs

Capacity building for management and development

The role of international academic cooperation

Brain drain : Colossal loss of investments for developing countries

'Brain gain' : A cost - effective UNDP programme

Mobilising Commonwealth skills for Commonwealth development

EU's investments in education and training in the ACP states

Analysis

EU-ACP relations : Building for tomorrow

The view of civil society on the future after Lomé IV

'Democratising democracy'

Close-up

Growing rice at high altitude in Burundi

Developing world

Freedom of expression: the heartbeat of democracy

Campaigning for free expression in the SADC region

Volunteers show their worth

Structural adiustment, the environment, and sustainable development

Culture and society

Why a Biennial Festival of Contemporary African Art?

Acting against AIDS

CTA-Bulletin

Earthen architecture

The courier’s mailbag

Bibliography

News round-up

In brief

The institutions at work

Visits

Support for human rights

Aid for rehabilitation

European development fund

European investment bank

Humanitarian aid

Food aid

European development fund

Following, where required, favourable opinions from the EDF Committee, the Commission has decided to provide grants and special loans from the 5th, 6th and 7th EDFs to finance the following operations (grants unless otherwise stated). Major projects and programmes are highlighted.

Economic and social infrastructure

Malawi: ECU 1.9 million for the rehabilitation and construction of customs facilities.

Zambia: ECU 11 million for resurfacing and improvements to the runway at Lusaka international Airport.

Fiji ECU 1.8 million for the rebuilding of three bridges.

Trade promotion/ structural adjustment

Member states of SADC (Southern Africa), ECOWAS (West Africa) and ECOCAS (Central Africa): ECU 500 000 for a follow-up pilot project relating to industrial fore in different sectors.

Botswana: ECU 1.9 million for a tourism development programme.

Djibouti: ECU 4.1 million to support the 1996-97 structural adjustment programme.

Netherlands Antilles/Aruba: ECU 5 million for a tourism promotion programme.

Agriculture/ rural development

Madagascar: ECU 1.9 million to support professional organisations in the field of rural credit.

Swaziland: ECU 1.4 million to build a bridge at Maphobeni, to facilitate rural development in this area.

Swaziland: ECU 1.5 million to improve the storage and commercialisation of maize.

Health

Benin: ECU 700 000 to enhance the security of blood supplies in the Oueme, Mono and Atlantique departments.

Education/training

Botswana: ECU 15 million for a training programme directed at SMEs, independent operators and the unemployed.

Ethiopia: ECU 1.05 million for a programme designed to strengthen training and research capacity in the economic field.

Member states of IGAD (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda): ECU 1.9 million for a training programme for the commercialisation of cereals.

Environment

Lesotho: ECU 1.3 million for a community reforestation programme in the Lesotho Highlands.

Institutional support

Djibouti: ECU 250 000 to provide technical support for the computerisation of the National Bank's accounting system.

Niger: ECU 1.8 million to support the electoral process.

Kenya: ECU 1.7 million for an assistance programme for the National Authorising

Officer covering the management of funds allocated by the European Community.

Zambia: ECU 1.5 million for the first phase of a tourism development programme.

Cariforum countries-Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bahamas, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago): ECU 725 000 in technical assistance for the programming unit of the Cariforum General Secretariat.

Miscellaneous

All ACPs: ECU 5 million to strengthen fisheries management and biodiversity.

Ghana: ECU 1.5 million for a pilot project in the field of decentralised cooperation.

Kenya: ECU 12.5 million for a community development programme in the battle against poverty.

Somalia: ECU 47 million for the second rehabilitation programme. The focus will be on productive activities (livestock, agriculture and fisheries), the social sectors (health, water, sanitation systems and education), the private sector (revenue generation, job creation, SMEs), the public sector (training, establishment of institutions), demobilisation, and the integration of former combatants

Zambia: ECU 1.6 million for a programme to combat poverty including, in particular, the provision of credit to micro-enterprises.

Zaire: ECU 2 million to support the integration of displaced people in Kasai.