Tunisia: Evaluation of the Bank's Country Strategy and Program

This evaluation examines the African Development Bank’s assistance to Tunisia over the 2004–2015 period as well as its contribution to the country’s development. It aims to draw lessons from past performance to improve the Bank’s future strategy and operations in Tunisia. Between 2004 and 2015, the Bank financed 58 projects in Tunisia worth over USD 3.4 billion.

Four successive Country Strategy Papers (CSPs) guided the Bank’s actions over the period in review. This evaluation covers all sectors of the Bank’s interventions in Tunisia, especially the transport infrastructure and governance sectors. It is based on data and information gathered from different sources including document reviews, key informant interviews and site visits.

Overall, this evaluation finds that the Bank aligned its different interventions to meet Tunisia’s development needs and that the Bank’s contribution towards improving the macroeconomic framework, governance and productive sector growth, prior to the 2011 social crisis, was tangible. The evaluation recommends that the Bank continues to support the Government of Tunisia in its financial and economic recovery reforms, administrative regionalization and decentralization efforts, and capacity building.