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News & Events
MENA Initiative
News & Events
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on 16-Feb-2007
Delegates to the Working Group IV reviewed past activities, shaped the work programme for 2007 and assessed future prospects. The meeting focused on concrete targets for future regional capacity-building activities on regional priority themes such as the drafting of a regional charter for regulatory quality, guidelines, toolkits and pilot projects for regulatory impact assessment and other peer-to-peer co-operation and partnership projects.
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on 15-Feb-2007
This Regional Capacity-building Seminar aimed at improving the conditions to design and perform regulatory policy in the Middle East and North African region. International policy dialogue has been promoted and encouraged through this meeting on issues such as: (1) preconditions for implementing high quality regulation, (2) regulatory policy issues - integrating regulatory policy into the policy making process, the role of oversight bodies, the importance of soft law and general principles -, and (3) regulatory tools such as regulatory impact assessment and administrative simplification.
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on 13-Mar-2007
The third regional meeting of the Working Group II on E-government and Administrative Simplification took place in Dubai, UAE on 13 March 2007 at the invitation of the Chair of Working Group II, Mr. Nabil Ali Al Yousuf, Director General of the Executive Office in Dubai and in collaboration with the OECD. This event followed a High Level Seminar on "Measuring and Evaluating E-Government” organised by the Dubai School of Government on 12 March.
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on 12-Mar-2007
The fourth High Level Seminar on Measuring and Evaluating E-Government took place in Dubai, UAE, on 12 March 2007 at the invitation of the Chair of Working Group II, Mr. Nabil Ali Al Yousuf, Director General of the Executive Office in Dubai and in collaboration with the OECD. This event was organised back-to-back with the Third Regional Meeting of GfD Working Group II on E-government and Administrative Simplification on 13 March 2007.
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from 21-Mar-2007 to 22-Mar-2007
Access to finance for enterprises, particularly at the early stages of development, is a key issue for the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa region. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, access to finance remains one of the most prominent economic challenges for most enterprises and particularly for SMEs, which account for as much as 99% of companies.
Responding to this urgency, the Enterprise Financing Network, a private sector initiative of the MENA-OECD Investment Programme, was launched in May 2006.
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from 28-Mar-2007 to 29-Mar-2007
The MENA-OECD Investment Programme’s Steering Group met in Paris to take decisions on the assessment of the current phase of the Programme and develop recommendations for the next Programme phase following the October 2007 Ministerial meeting (MENA II, 2008-2010).
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from 11-Dec-2006 to 12-Dec-2006
The objective of the two-day event on personalised service portals, organised by the OECD and the French Ministry of Finance, Economy and Industry in Paris on 11-12 December 2006, was to provide e-government experts with a forum to exchange experiences and to share good practices on portal development.
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from 27-Nov-2007 to 28-Nov-2007
Hosted by the Egyptian Chair of the MENA-OECD Investment Programme, represented by His Excellency Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin, in Cairo, Ministers took stock of achievements in investment climate reforms and regional co-operation, discussed remaining challenges and provided orientations for the way forward.
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from 06-Dec-2006 to 07-Jan-2007
The third meeting of GfD Working Group 1 served to shape its work programme for 2007. It resulted in a strong agreement by Arab countries to further deepen and intensify the regional policy dialogue through three key elements: intensifying the sharing of good practices, identifying common principles, providing policy makers with practical and reliable policy checklists, and developing a common language for regional policy dialogue through a set of comparable data.
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from 20-Nov-2006 to 24-Nov-2006
A peer-to-peer study visit of senior Arab HR officials on the Belgian experience with reforming the federal job classification system took place in Brussels, Belgium, from 20-24 November 2006. In response to strong interest expressed by several Arab countries, this peer-to-peer visit has been initiated and organised by the Belgian Federal Public Service Personnel & Organisation with support from the OECD in the framework of the GfD Working Group 1 on Civil Service and Integrity.
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