Sustainable development of the Aviation & Aerospace cluster in Tunisia

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation (SIAB) in achieving its objectives, which include improving the conditions for long-term economic growth in selected African partner countries, Tunisia is one among others those, and promoting local and international investment. The project ‘Job partnership and promotion of medium-sized businesses in Tunisia’ (Jobpartnerschaft und Mittelstandsförderung in Tunesien (JuM) focus on the two sectors aeronautical/aviation and automotive/mechatronic. The duration of project is November 2018 until November 2022. The objectives of the project, implemented by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), are focusing primarily on additional sector relevant employment, improvement and growth of relevant sectorial clusters and their ecosystems as well as improvements of gender and diversity related factors. The above-mentioned objectives should be achieved by 3 output areas/components: — business and invest, which contributes to improving the conditions for trade and investment by German and European companies in Tunisia's automotive and aviation industry. To this end, a business facility desk will be set up as a central point of contact to provide interested companies with information and advice; — ‘African Mittelstand’ targets Tunisian small and medium-sized companies in the selected clusters aeronautical/aviation and mechatronic/automotive. The companies will benefit from capacity development measures with the aim of employment generating growth; — ‘Cluster Ecosystems’ with a special focus on the aeronautical/aviation industry. ‘Cluster Ecosystems’ contributes to improving the business ecosystem of the selected sectoral clusters aeronautical/aviation (and mechatronic/automotive).