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E-mail: badea@badea.org environments through the provision of Established: December 18, 1971
http: www.badea.org scientific and applied data and advanced Started operations: 1974
Established: November 28, 1973 techniques in a way that allows the large- Chairman of the Board of Directors
Cairo Office: scale implementation of the tasks of the and Director-General: Mr. Abdulatif
Arab Bank for Economic agricultural and social developments and Yousef Al-Hammad
Development in Africa (BADEA) 82, the optimum exploitation of the renewable Contact: Munira Al-Khubaizi,
AL -Merghani Street, No. (7) Second natural resources in these environments. Library Manager
Floor, Misr Al Jadida The Agreement Eastablishing the Fund
Arab Republic of Egypt was adopted by the Economic and Social
Tel/Fax : +202-2-4175501 Council of the League of Arab States on 16
Started operations: March, 1975 May 1968, ("the Agreement"). The General
Contact: H.E. Yousef Al-Bassam, Secretariat of the League of Arab States
Chairman / Dr. Sidi Ould TAH, declared the Agreement effective as of 18
Director General. / H.E.Eng.Yousef December 1971. The first meeting of the
Ibrahim Al-Bassam Arab Company for Livestock Board of Governors was convened on 6
Vice President & Managing Director Development: (ACOLID) February 1972, and the Fund commenced
BADEA (Banque Arabe pour le P.O.Box 5305, Mezzeh, Villat operations in early 1974. Its membership
developpement economique en Afrique) Gharbieh, comprises all 21 members of the League
seeks to promote economic, financial and Damascus, Syria of Arab States and each member has
technical cooperation between African and Tel: +963 1 6616302 / 6616943 subscribed sahres of the capital of the
Arab countries. It has a dual role: as an Tlx:411376 ACOLID SY Fund.
instrument for dispensing and coordinating Fax:+963 1 6616989 The AFESD is an arab regional financial
Arab aid to non-Arab Africa as well as a E-MAIL: acolid@sps.net.sa institution, having an independent
forum for broad discussion of cooperation Saudi Arabia: P.O.Box 18389, Riyadh juridical personality. Its purpose is to
between African and Arab countries. 11578 P.O. 75026, Saudi Arabia contribute to the financing of economic
BADEA finances economic development Tel: +966 1 4195445 and social development in the Arab states
in African countries, stimulates the Fax: +966 1 4192187 and countries (through (1) financing
contribution of Arab capital to African Email: ; reg@acolid.com, acolid@sps.net.sa development projects, with preference
development, and helps provide technical Chief Executive Officer: H.E. Dr. given to overall Arab development and to
assistance for development in Africa. Abdullah T. Al-Thenayan joint Arab projects; (2) encourgaing the
"Forty-three member states of the Established in 1974 by the governments investement of private and public funds in
Organization of African Unity that are not of Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Arab projects; and (3) providing technical
members of the League of Arab States, are Sudan, Iraq, Somalia, Egypt, Yemen, Qatar, assistance services for Arab economic and
eligible for aid from BADEA. By the end of and the Arab Investment Company and social development.) it not only provides
1999, 41 of them benefited from BADEA's the Kuwait, Foreign Trading Contracting loans, but also extends technical assistance
operations. and Investment Company. ACOLID was grants to allevieate the bottlenecks
BADEA is funded by Arab governments. It established as Pan-Arab Company to excel confronting the economies of the Arab
provides both project loans on concessional and play a leading role as specialized Arab states.
terms and technical assistance, mainly for co. in livestock fields. Authorized capital The AFESD also provides secretariat
project feasibility studies and institutional KD 60 million. Set up to encourage and for the Coordination Secretariat of Arab
support." provide start-up finance for the production, National and Regional Development
processing, transport of animal products Institutions.
and fodder. Poultry projects (for egg and
meat production), dairy project, sheep
and calves projects (for meat production),
feed projects and consultation services to
inter Arab organizations, government and
private companies.

Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Arab Fund for Technical
Zones & Dry Lands (ACSAD) Assistance to African &
Almuhafaza Street, Great Billal Hotel Arab Countries (AFTAAC)
Building Damascus Syria 33 Sakanat El-Maadi St., Cairo,
P.O Box: 2440, Damascus, Syria Egypt
Tel: + 00963-11-3944171/3944172/ 3944173 Arab Fund for Economic & Social Tel:+20-2-3590322
Fax: + 00963-11-2264707/3944170 Development (AFESD) Fax: +20-2-3592099
E-Mail: acsad@net.sy P.O.Box: 21923, Safat 13080, Jamal E-mail: arabfund@aftaac.org.eg,
http: www.acsad.org Abd, Al-Naser Street - Al Shuwaikh, info@aftaac.org.eg
Cont: Dr.Rafik Ali Saleh, Director Kuwait Established: April 1975
General Tel:+965 4844 500 / +965 2495 9000 Started operations: 1976
Established in 1971 as a specialized Fax:+965 248 15750/60/70 Executive Director: Mr. Mahdi
research center within the framework Tlx: INMARAB 22153 KT Mostafa El Hadi, Assistant Secretary-
of the League of Arab States. The main E-mail:malkhubaizi@arabfund.org, General of the Arab League
mission of ACSAD is to face the challenge hq@arabfund.org The creation of AFTAAAC was approved
imposed by the arid and semiarid http:www.arabfund.org in December 1973 by the Economic

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