International cooperation projects in support of entrepreneurship in southern Tunisia: activities and relations with public actors

IF 1.2 4区经济学 Q3 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

New Medit Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI:10.30682/nm2205l

A. Hanafi, Wafa Koussani, F. Khamassi, N. Ben Aissa, N. Faysse

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Abstract

In Tunisia, international cooperation projects in support of entrepreneurship boomed after the 2011 revolution. This paper analyses to what extent such projects have built the capacities of those involved in local entrepreneurial “ecosystems”. It analyses the main international cooperation projects supporting entrepreneurship in the Kebili and Medenine governorates (southern Tunisia) between 2011 and 2020. The activities of these projects were mapped and two workshops were conducted with actors of the local entrepreneurial ecosystems to discuss their implementation. Fourteen international cooperation projects were identified. These projects mostly focused on increasing the number of enterprises created, e.g., by supporting training, networking and sometimes funding. However, only one project provided support after creation of businesses, and few promoted a culture of entrepreneurship. Overall, these projects generally based their actions on the existing ecosystem of public actors in charge of supporting entrepreneurship. They made limited attempts to build the capacities of those actors, evaluate the functioning of local entrepreneurial ecosystems and coordinate among themselves.

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支持突尼斯南部创业的国际合作项目：活动和与公共行为者的关系

在突尼斯，支持创业的国际合作项目在2011年革命后蓬勃发展。本文分析了这些项目在多大程度上建立了参与当地创业“生态系统”的人的能力。报告分析了2011年至2020年期间支持Kebili省和Medenine省(突尼斯南部)创业的主要国际合作项目。对这些项目的活动进行了规划，并与当地企业生态系统的参与者举办了两次讲习班，讨论其实施情况。确定了14个国际合作项目。这些项目主要集中于增加创建企业的数量，例如通过支持培训、建立网络和有时提供资金。然而，只有一个项目在创业后提供支持，很少有项目促进创业文化。总的来说，这些项目的行动通常基于现有的负责支持创业的公共行为体生态系统。它们为建立这些行动者的能力、评价当地企业生态系统的运作和相互协调作出了有限的努力。

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New Medit AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

2.00

自引率

30.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： New Medit is an applied economics journal, with a multidisciplinary approach, aimed at providing insights into the economic and the social transformations of agro-food sector, rural societies as well as local development and bioeconomy in the Mediterranean Basin. Manuscripts submitted to NEW MEDIT generally should deal with wide-ranging topics that can be extended to other countries where organisational, production and market conditions and the related development policies may emerge at the corporate or regional level.