TUNISIA - Economic Recovery and Social Inclusion Support Programme (PAREIS)

Project Summary

Approval Date	14 Jul 2021
Planned Completion Date	31 Dec 2022
Last Disbursement Planned Date	31 Dec 2022
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign	Sovereign
Sector	Multi-Sector
DAC Sector Code	11330
Commitment	U.A 49,736,809.38
Status	Approved

Project General Description

The project is an AfDB loan of EUR 60 million, to the Republic of Tunisia to finance the Economic Recovery and Social Inclusion Support Programme - PAREIS. This operation, which is the Bank’s contribution to multi-donor budget support (2020-2022) for Tunisia, is intended to support post COVID-19 economic recovery while responding more efficiently to the social challenges exacerbated by the pandemic. PAREIS will, therefore, contribute to the achievement of the development objective of the Joint AFD-African Development Bank, World Bank-JICA-KfW Reform Support Programme aimed at strengthening macroeconomic stability in the near-term and gradually controlling the fiscal balances, while contributing to an appropriate response to social demand, in the medium term. The operation’s two focus areas are: (i) acceleration of quick-impact reforms likely to speed up economic recovery and job protection; and (ii) social spending efficiency and efficacy through streamlining and better targeting of social assistance programmes.

Project Objectives

The goal of PAREIS is to contribute to economic recovery by improving the investment climate, job protection and social inclusion. Its main objective is to support the Tunisian Government in its efforts to mitigate the economic and social impacts of COVID 19 by speeding up economic recovery, safeguarding jobs and strengthening social inclusion.

Beneficiaries

The direct beneficiaries of the PAREIS programme will be 12 million inhabitants, self-employed workers impacted by the crisis, especially the lockdown of May 2021, and wage earners who could be laid off or placed on furlough, estimated at 227,000 persons. More specifically, the programme will affect 1.4 million micro-credit applicants and the populations of the hinterland regions benefiting from improved basic infrastructure and access to social services. The programme will also impact the 470,000 lowincome households (beneficiaries of discount health cards) and 260,000 poor families (beneficiaries of permanent cash transfers), plus an estimated 400,000 vulnerable families affected by the health crisis who are not registered in the MAS database. It will also impact farms and provide support to male and female farmers in the wake of natural disasters and will also help to mitigate the impact of the COVID crisis. The indirect beneficiaries are MSMEs, SMEs and national and foreign investors who will benefit from the improved business climate and quality of human capital.

Participating Organization

Funding

African Development Bank

Implementing

MINISTERE DU DEVELOPPEMENT ET DE LA COOPERTATION INTERNATIONALE

Information

IATI identifier	46002-P-TN-K00-018
Last Update	04 Dec 2021

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Contact Details

Name	GUEYE Mouhamed
Email	m.gueye@afdb.org

Geographic Location

Country	Tunisia

Project Classification

Finance Type	N/A
Flow Type	ODA
Aid Type	N/A

Commitments

U.A 49,736,809

African Development Bank

U.A 49,736,809.38

Document Type	Language	Document
Appraisal report	en	viewer
Environmental Study	en	viewer
Appraisal report	fr	viewer
Environmental Study	fr	viewer

Indicator	Indicator Measure	Target Year	Target Value
Investment to GDP ratio	%	2021	16
Tunisia’s Doing Business score	%	2021	71
Number of businesses with access to SOTUGAR guarantee mechanisms	Number	2021	4000
Financial inclusion rate for adult population	%	2021	38
Increase in the number of permanent beneficiaries of cash transfers	%	2021	10
Number of people receiving social transfers after the reforms (access to medical care and other cash transfers)	Number	2021	2300000
Distribution rate of AMEN and LABES cards	%	2021	50
Approval of the list of business or administrative authorisations that will constitute the ‘second list’ for the elimination of business or administrative authorisations during a Council of Ministers	None	2021	Yes
Adoption of the strategic note on the five-year development plan	None	2021	Yes
Adoption of the RAIDA II programme, including innovations, ICTs and openness to promising niches	None	2021	Yes
Expansion of the activities of the Compensation Fund for Agricultural Damage caused by Natural Disasters (FIDAC) to tree-growing and market gardening	None	2021	Yes
Launching and subscription of CDC to Inkadh and Mourafik funds under the Aspire initiative for respective targets of TND 50 and 40 million	None	2021	Yes
Joint memorandum applying the provisions of Article 3 of Law No. 2020-45 of 14 December easing the conditions for writing off bad bank debts	None	2021	Yes
Publication of MEFAI order determining the categories of insurance that MFI can market and authorising microfinance institutions to distribute micro-insurance products	None	2021	Yes
ACM credit registry developed	None	2021	Yes
Number of low-income families benefiting from exceptional temporary financial assistance to cope with the effects of COVID-19	Number	2021	870000
Number of low-income families benefiting from exceptional temporary financial assistance to cope with the effects of COVID-19 - female-headed	Number	2021	174000
Number of needy families benefiting from exceptional temporary financial assistance to cope with the effects of COVID-19	Number	2021	265000
Number of needy families benefiting from exceptional temporary financial assistance to cope with the effects of COVID-19 - female-headed	Number	2021	132500
Social survey implementation rate	%	2021	70
Publication in JORT of the implementing decree defining the powers, composition and operating conditions of the Higher Social Development Council – CSDS	None	2021	Yes
Roll-out of the unique citizen identifier in priority programmes, in particular, social protection, taxation, education and justice	None	2021	Yes