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Invest in the MEDA region, why how ?<br />

sectors concerned by this commitment are water and energy. In<br />

Johannesburg, the EU launched therefore two partnerships. The<br />

European initiative ʺWater for Lifeʺ articulates the existing financial<br />

mechanisms with specific emphasis on three parameters: water<br />

supply, hygiene and integrated resource management. At the<br />

present time, the concrete follow‐up concerning the Mediterranean<br />

countries is on its way within the framework of the MEDA funding<br />

instrument.<br />

For more information, refer to the Euro‐Med Partnership document<br />

at the following address:<br />

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/euromed/rsp/meda_ni<br />

p05_06_fr.<strong>pdf</strong><br />

The MEDA and FEMIP financial instruments<br />

and the institutional twinning<br />

The Euro‐Mediterranean Partnership also provides financial co‐<br />

operation instruments to support economic change in the<br />

Mediterranean partners’ countries: MEDA and FEMIP.<br />

Created by the Cannes Council in June 1995, the MEDA<br />

programme constitutes the main financial framework for the<br />

implementation of the Euro‐Mediterranean Partnership. The<br />

European Commission, in close co‐operation with each of its<br />

Mediterranean partners and while taking account their diversity,<br />

launched assistance programmes for economic transition, following<br />

a bottom‐up approach and financed under the MEDA programme.<br />

These assistance programmes deal with promoting reforms and<br />

developing the private sector (through supporting more<br />

specifically SMEs and industrial sectors, modernising the financial<br />

sector, facilitating trade, contributing to fruitful privatisations and<br />

supporting private participation into the much‐needed<br />

infrastructure investments, etc..). Within the framework of MEDA<br />

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