The Palestinian Water Authority and the UfM are working together to raise the 310 Million euros necessary investment. Arab countries, coordinated by the Islamic Development Bank, committed to provide half of the necessary funds as a match to European financial commitment. 10 Million euros were already pledged by France during the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille…. read more
The establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean University in Morocco, an employability training program addressed at Southern Mediterranean disadvantaged women, and a plan for overcoming governance challenges to the mobilisation of financing for the Mediterranean water sector are the three new projects recently labelled by the UfM…. read more
Five countries are participating in the first phase of this project with an overall budget of 2 Million Euros: Lebanon, Tunisia, Jordan, Albania and Palestine. The project has the financial support of the EIB. The promoters and the UfM Secretariat will mobilize other donors for the remaining financing needs…. read more
This cooperation is enshrined in the overall approach of the Mediterranean Solar Plan, promoted by the UFM…. read more
Two chapters of the Mediterranean Solar Plan (MSP) were discussed in the margins of the Sustainable Energy Week…. read more
TUNIS (TAP) – Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem announced, on Thursday, that Tunisia is to host, next October or November, a conference on investment with the support of the Union For the Mediterranean (UFM)…. read more
The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean actively participated in the MENAREC 5 Conference in Marrakech, which brings together ministers and senior representatives from Mediterranean countries, international organizations and the private sector…. read more
The construction of a 100 million cubic meters desalination facility and distribution system in the Gaza strip will help to address the major water deficit for a population of 1.6 million…. read more
The UfM’s Environment and Water Division dicussed the project of integrated-depollution of the lake of Bizerte, identified under the Horizon 2020 initiative…. read more
A Delegation headed by Deputy Secretary General Rafiq Husseini, in charge of Water and Environment portfolio in the UfM Secretariat, visited Kuwait and Saudi Arabia last week to present the Gaza water desalination project to financing institutions and funds…. read more
