THE
ASSOCIATION FOR COOPERATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The IACSD aims at
participating to tackle the most urgent challenges, generated by the transition
Tunisia is currently witnessing, that is namely a high level of unemployment in
general and mostly among the young and educated generation, the poverty
affecting more and more new segments of the society and the difficulty to
influx a new enhancement of development into the landlocked areas of the
country. The actions of the IACSD are devoted to the perspective of a wholesome
national kick-up affecting all economic and social sectors. The said actions do
integrate the new dynamics of the civil society and their initiators are
committed to carry out their activities in full harmony with the policy set-up
by the official authorities at their twofold levels, national and regional, and
in conformity with the national priorities of development.
Composed of
multidisciplinary competences which have served in the fields of diplomacy, the
financial and banking sectors, the Public Service, the Trade Unions and
the Private Sector and which are, by the same token, open to the
twenty/thirty years generations willing to bring a qualitative change to the
body of Associations, the founding members of the IACDS are committed,
through the setting of a network of contacts and relations, either inside or
outside of Tunisia and both, to work for:
* The eradication of
the extreme poverty in the Country. The IACDS targets to bring support to
most disfavored strata of the population, through its own input with the help
of the similar NGOs activities and its contribution towards the implementation
of national programs, focusing on the social aspect of them.
*The insurance of a
sound education to the Tunisian youngsters while trackling the most performing
schooling and university curricula, their adequacy with the requirement of
labor market. The IACDS contribution will look for the betterment of the space
and other suitable conditions where school courses are conducted in most
backward areas in the Country.
*The promotion of
gender equality, the safeguard of the Tunisian women right achievements and the
necessity of their reinforcement in all fields.
Through its
commitment, the dynamics of its members as well as the opportunities offered by
the international cooperation with similar NGOs, the IAISD will then tackle the
matter of elaborating and setting-up a strategy of development based on the two
following axis:
1-Actions aiming at
reabsorbing the unemployment particularly that of the university graduates.
-To enhance the
conditions of employability of higher education graduates, through a specific
effort of recycling, allowing them to acquire a suitable training which would
facilitate their access to the labor market.
-To stimulate the
spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship towards the young graduates, by
encouraging them to create their own projects and by working for their
accompaniment in all the setting-up steps of their company through an effort
encompassing the coaching, the facilitation of loans access, the skills of the
management techniques and the marketing of the end product. In this respect, a
program of start-ups could constitute some nests of the kind to develop, in
partnership with the civil society and a meaningful support from the overseas
partners of the IACSD
2- Actions aiming at
lessening the increasing phenomenon of extreme poverty.
Several areas situated
at the limbs of big conglomerations and at the interior of the country, daily
acknowledge the awful impacts of the poverty. The projected actions by
the IACSD are meant to encourage the populations of the disfavored areas to
self-reliance through social supportive programs, integrating financial
components (creation of income resources), social ones (search for solutions
about delinquency particularly juvenile and fight against the scourge of narcotics)
and those related to community health.
Obviously such
endeavors remain conditional to the official input and effective implementation
by the authorities in respect to infrastructure upgrading and the value
enhancement of the macro-economic potentialities of the disadvantaged areas.
At the start, the
IAISD actions will focus on the following sectors which are able to generate
jobs with high added value to the economy:
Ecological and
Cultural Tourism:
* Occupying an
important post in the economy (7% of the gross national product and employing
some five hundred thousand Tunisians), the touristic sector will earn to be
enhanced through diversification. It has to be detached from the seaside
perception which has stuck to it for the last forty years through the
introduction of more rewarding new crenels such as ecological and cultural
tourism.
*To encourage private
initiatives towards this approach where opportunities are tangible for the
country possesses millennial cultural heritage (historical and archeological
sites) while, by the same token, it is useful to acknowledge and to raise
awareness about the meaningful aspects of ecology with the Tunisian
populations.
*To insist on
popularizing tourism of quality (leisure, health and culture) through the
formula promotion: respect of the biodiversity balance and the preservation of
the environment with its two dimensions (fauna and flora) for the benefit of
the actual and future generations.
Sustainable Agriculture
and Rural Development:
*To push forward
agricultural projects which consider the growth of farm bio-products within the
framework of sustainable agriculture (conservation of water and soil,
traceability, usage of natural manure, composting... )
*To develop, in a
suitable approach, human resources for the viability of sustainable
agriculture. In this respect, the IACSD will take it as a priority to support
the projects whose promoters are particularly women and youth through the
facilitation of access to water, land, banking loans, marketing and
distribution channels.
Recycling Plastic,
Metal, and Paper Trash
*To encourage and
support the creation of collection units and recycling domestic and industrial
refuses (paper, plastic, metal and fluids)
-To work for the
promotion of Private/Public Partnership in this sector.
The Sector of New
Technologies of Information and Communication
*To support Start-Ups
and Research and Development insuring to the University graduates/promoters the
suitable framework for their success in the implementation of their projects.
Public health: making
health care services reachable to the whole population especially that of the
areas remained disfavored and so through the betterment of cares quality with
accessible costs
Education for all, especially
in remote areas while insisting on the quality of education programmes in
boosting the critique mind instead of the accumulation of knowledge.
