ABOUT MED-PACT
PROJECTS AT A GLANCE
MED-PACT IN THE PRESS
LESSONS LEARNED
DOCUMENT REPOSITORY
USEFUL LINKS
Sharing & Learning Seminar
 
STREAM CITIES
A delegation from the City of Catania, Leader of Partnership in STREAM CITIES project visited Bethlehem April 25-26, 2009. The Delegation was composed of Mr. Corrado Persico, Director General ..
PAMLED
The Project Coordinator together with members of the Scientific Committee visited Sin El Fil October 12-15th 2009 and Marrakesh on December 1-4 in order to plan for the last stretch of activities ..
GUIFORMED
GUIFORMED project (GATAB, Turkey) has been struggling with the process of data collection from its partners in Germany, Greece, Tunisia Lebanon and Turkey..
SHAMS
SHAMS has completed most of its planned activities in Tunisia and Morocco and is planning to finish its activities in Bosra – Syria by June 2010 ...
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A partnership program between local authorities in the Mediterranean

Type of action: MEDA funded Regional program
BUDGET:   € 5 million
Start Date:   2006
Duration:   3 years

One of the main aims of the Barcelona Process is to bring closer the Mediterranean people and develop better understanding between them, especially by developing civil society exchanges. The promotion of good governance and a better management of the environment are priorities for all aspects of the European Union’s development policy.

The MED-PACT program came about as part of these priorities. It meets a Committee of the Regions request in a 2003 Opinion for the need to support cooperation between local authorities within the Euro-Mediterranean partnership. It also meets one of the main recommendations of the Naples December 2003 Foreign Affairs Ministerial Conference of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership which called for the promotion of civil society partnerships in the region to give greater substance to the Barcelona Process.

OBJECTIVES
The main objective of the program is to encourage a better comprehension between the civil society of the north and the south of the Mediterranean by developing cooperation, exchanges and dialogue between cities.

The specific objectives are:
  • to assist the EU’s Mediterranean partner countries to ensure a more balanced and durable local development, via partnerships between cities;
  • to promote better municipal planning and management, involving all the city’s actors as necessary.