Tunisia project 664-0328 · 1982–1991 · Price Waterhouse. Ofc. of Government Services

Project to develop Tunisia's private sector (PS) and increase the benefits from A.I.D.'s country program. The project, to be implemented by the Government of Tunisia's (GOT) General Directorate for International Cooperation, will finance small interventions to create and reinforce long-term, U.S.-Tunisia links for technology transfer. The project will identify PS investment constraints and opportunities; develop a public-private strategy to increase investment, employment, and productivity; alert businesspeople and GOT officials to investment opportunities and to new and productive technologies; transmit business skills to small enterprises; and enhance completed or nearly completed A.I.D. projects. Focus will be on small (at most $250,000 and averaging $125,000) interventions. Possible PS interventions include, inter alia, provision of: U.S. PS expertise in such fields as systems management, quality control, and administrative planning; TA to establish an a GOT agency to place a GOT brand name on agricultural exports; and information and TA to the Tunisian Chamber of Commerce by its U.S. namesake and/or other groups. Possible interventions to enhance A.I.D. projects include, inte

Source: DEC abstract, PD-AAL-823 (1982). The source's own text.