Final Mission Report2

United Nations Development Programme
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To: MR. JULIO GRIECO Date: 1526/06/05 Libya

MR. ABDOUL BARI ZUNNI ‫ليبيـا‬
MR. GIANLUCA VIGNOLA
Mr. GIOVANNI CAMILLERI
From: GIANLUCA NOCERA
Subject:
ART GOLD MAGHREB – MISSION REPORT – Period 20.11.04 – 15.07.05
This document is prepared in order to provide to the new CTA,

the relevant information for a smoothly continuation of the
activities already realized in the framework of ARG GOLD Libya.
ToRs
Consultant on Local Development: Main focal point in Libya for all issues
concerning the Art Gold MAGHREB project, in coordination; promote the
Libya window of the Art Gold MAGHREB project, its objectives and
methodology at local level in the selected pilot regions, to achieve a full
participation of local actors; Provide technical assistance to Local authorities
to finalize Local Action Plans for each pilot region, to ensure the identification
of quick impact projects and middle-term development actions with a
detailed budget. Elaborate a national Action Plan integrated by each Local
Action Plan, with related budget, which will be negotiated with national and
local authorities before its approval; Strengthen operative coordination with
UNDP CO in order to build synergy at local level and assume the GOLD
approach/programme as the local development strategy of UNDP in the
country; Maintain and reinforce contacts and operative coordination with
International Cooperation agencies present in the country, and with
decentralized cooperation partners, in coordination with the APPI
Management Unit and the EDINFODEC project; Draw reports of the activities
undertaken during the appointment period and maintain permanent
communication with GOLD Regional Unit in Tunis; Link up to UNESCO and
UNIFEM, when needs be, concerning the international activities component
of the Art Gold MAGHREB project.
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Web: www.undp-libya.org
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The main results
In the framework of ART GOLD MAGHREB, according to the ToR and the
goals defined, the main results of the mission in Libya of the consultant Gianluca
Nocera have been:
• The setup of the LWG in the Sha’abiyat (Derna, Butnan, Misurata and
Jaghboub) involved in the Programme;
• The preparation of the Territorial Marketing Document for the Sha’abiya of
Butnan with the assistance of Mr. Michele Zarrelli;
• The complete successful missions in Italy, Spain and Greece of Libyan
delegations to meet the European DCCs with the signature of various MoU
among Libyan Sha’abiyat and DCCs;
• The successful mission in Libya of the International Secretariat for ART Gold
of Tuscany Region with the identification of a first project of telemedicine as
cooperation in the field of the public health with the involvement of the three
Sha’abiyat;
• The involvement of the Area of Jaghboub in the Programme;
• The presentation for approval by the Libyan Ministry of Planning of a project
of training in the field of local planning to the ministry of Planning with the
involvement of CIRCLE;
• The identification of possible projects of cooperation in Derna, Misurata and
Butnan;
• With the support of CIRCLE, drafting of a project in the field of tourism with
the involvement of the Libyan Sha’abiyat and the Italian Regions of Sicily and
Basilicata;
• The activation of cooperation with WWF in support to the realization of a
conference for the coastal protection on 27th September 2005. The
conference is a first step for the identification and implementation of Projects
in the field of sustainable development for the coastal areas.
• The preparation of the Action Plan of the Programme with the involvement of
the Ministry of Planning and the Sha’abiyat involved in the Programme and
the official presentation for approval;
ACTIVITIES
The mission started on 20th November 2004. It was foreseen the participation to a
conference in Tunisia on local development organized by Gold Programme. With the
cancellation of the conference and the delay of the visa for Libya, it was organized a
first agenda in Italy with the aim to meet the Italian Decentralized Cooperation
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Committees interested to cooperate with Libya. The details of the

meeting are in the annex 1.
On 7th of December the Libyan visa was ready and the mission in Libya
begun on 8th of December. Ms. Benedetta Oddo introduced the
consultant as new CTA to Mr. Zunni, Mr Shuaib, Governor of Derna, and
Libya
Mr. Julio Grieco.
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After a selection of assistants, Mr. Osama Matri was selected as an
assistant. The first mission in the field was organized on 26th of December 2004 in
Derna and Butnan. During the meetings with the Governors and the other
Secretaries of both the Sha’abiyat was discussed the priorities of each sector and
the methodology of intervention of ART GOLD MAGHREB.
On 03rd of January the consultant has visited the Sha’abiya of Misurata and met, in
an official meeting, with the Governor and the most members of the Secretaries.
The consultant presented the Programme and the initiatives and proposed the next
activities in course of planning.
According to the request of the APPI office in Rome, the consultant prepared a first
budget in order to cover the cost of the activities until the end of February 2005.
Until the second week of February the amount approved was not available. In that
phase, as advance, the consultant has guaranteed the Programme operations with
his own financial resources.
ART GOLD Libya intended to organize the first nucleus of the RWG and support
them, with an international assistant specialized on local development in order to
elaborate the first document of Territorial Marketing.
This document is the basic tool for the promotion of the future cooperation with the
European DCCs.
The second activity planned has been a first mission in Italy with the participation of
three delegates from each Sha’abiya and a delegate for each Ministry or National
Authority involved in ART GOLD Libya.
Each Sha’abiya has identified three staff members as first nucleus of LWG.
In particular:
For the Sha’abiya of Misurata
1. Muftah Abdalla Gibril Secretary of the People’s Committee for Education

2. Kamal Abdalla Elshalfuh Secretary of the People’s Committee for Tourism
3. Mohamed Omar Esmaio Representative of the People’s Committee for Labor
For the Sha’abiya of Derna
1. Fathalla Muftah Sargewa Secretary of the Planning Council of Derna

2. Masaud Mohamed Ekraym Director of High Center for Polytechnic Studies
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3. Mohammed Najib Leias Member of the Technical and

Financial Follow-up
Department
4. Zakaria Mohamed Busheha Member of the faculty of High Center
for
Libya
Polytechnic Studies ‫ليبيـا‬
For the Sha’abiya of Butnan
1. Fakhraldin-S-A-Mahmod Secretary of Trade Unions.

2. Hussen El Mabruk Honorary Italian Consul in Tobruk
3. Abdulsalam M. Abubaker Secretary of basic people’s congress- city of Tobruk.
Based on the constituted LWG the consultant requested the selection of experts for
the assistance of the LWG in the preparation of the TMD. The consultant defined the
profiles and the ToRs.
EDINFODEC Programme and CIRCLE have provided several CVs of youth consultants
or stagers that did not find the approval of the RR.
Mr. Zarrelli has been the only stager approved by the RR. Mr. Zarrelli has been
assigned to Tobruk. He had prepared, with the active cooperation of the Sha’abiya
departments and the LWG, the TMD for the Sha’abiya of Butnan.
Mr. Zarrelli arrived in Libya on 24th January 2005. The duration of his mission was
three months.
At the end of his mission, due to the positive evaluation of his work, the consultant
requested to Mr. Gianluca Vignola to make him a first contract in order to continue
his work in Tobruk and in the other Sha’abiyat.
From 02nd until 5th of February 2005 the consultant and his assistant Mr Osama
Matri, have organized another mission in Derna and Tobruk in order to introduce Mr.
Zarrelli in Tobruk and to confirm the last details regarding the mission in Italy such
as Visa, advance, agenda, etc.
During this period various meetings was organized with national authorities in order
to define the potential partnerships for A. G. Libya:
• Mr. Lorenzo de Prosperis – Chief of Cooperazione Italiana in Libya;

• Mr. Rajab Shiglabu – General Director of Libyan Investment Board;
• Mr. Mohamed Omer Esmaio – expert of vocational training in the Office of
Developing Working forces and training Boss;
• Dr Mustafa Attir - President of Arab Sociological Association;
• Mr. Ali El Sherif - Under Secretary of General Popular Committee of Economy
and Trade
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• Dr. Mahmoud Khaled – National Coordinator of FAO Programme

Libya Agri cover.
• Mr. Abdalla M. Fallah – Member of the Libyan Businessmen
Council Libya
• Mr. Abounnaby Abughania – Director of National Planning Centre ‫ليبيـا‬
for Education
• Mr. Aribi Mazuz – Under Secretary, Libyan General People
Committee for Tourism
• Mr. Amar El-Taief, Secretary Libyan General People Committee for Tourism
These meetings have represented the first approach to the different aspects of the
interventions that Art GOLD will foresee in its own implementation.
Economy, Social exclusion, Gender Policies, Health, Education, etc, are the fields of
action for AG Libya in connection with the goals defined in the Libya Common
Country Assessment 2004.
In cooperation with EDINFODEC, Art Tuscany and Circle, a first mission of Libyan
delegates in Italy to meet the Italian DCCs was held from 13th to 20th of February
2005. The Mission report and the main results are attached in the Annex 2.
In the period of March-April 2005, with the assistance of Ms. Giulia Dario, under the
supervising of Mr. Gianluca Vignola, the consultant has drafted the Action Plan for
ART GOLD – April 2004 – April 2005.
The draft has been prepared in cooperation with the Under secretary of the Ministry
of Planning, Mr. Abdoul Bari Zunni and Asma Muttawa, Program officer UNDP and
the Governor of the three Sha’abiyat.
After the presentation of ART GOLD to the Governor of the Jaghboub area, Mr.
Mansour Salem Kamees, He decided to present an official request to the Ministry of
Planning, Mr. Zunni in an official letter requesting the involvement of Jaghboub Area
in Art Gold. The area has been included in the Action Plan.
On April 22nd arrived in Libya the delegates of the first mission of Italian
decentralized cooperation of Tuscany region. The delegation has been composed by:
• Mr. Sauro Gori, Coordinator of International Secretariat for ART Gold
Decentralized Cooperation for Maghreb.
• Dr. Marcello Caremani, expert in ultrasound and international cooperation,
Hospital of Arezzo.
• Dr. Vincenzo Lucchetti, First Surgeon of Hospital of Florence and export of
international cooperation.
The mission agenda is attached as annex 3.

The goal of this first mission has been the setup of a Program of cooperation among
the Hospitals and the Local Authorities for the Public Health. It has been drafted as a
project of telemedicine and tele-assistance among Italian and Libyan hospitals. In
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order to define the project and for the elaboration of a work plan in the
field of health a mission of three months of an expert has been planned.
Dr. Flavio Godi, has started his mission on 11th of July. The ToR of the
mission has been defined with the cooperation of ART Tuscany; the
delegates came in Libya a companied by the International Consultant.
Libya
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The mission of Miss. Alessandra Pomè, expert of WWF has been
supported by ART GOLD Libya. In the framework of the cooperation between WWF
Mediterranean Programme Office and UNOPS/UNDP ART GOLD Libya Programme,
the mission aimed:
• To plan and start the organization of a National Conference on “Sustainable

human development - Natural and Cultural Resources Conservation in the
Cyrenaica Coastline”, to be held in Tripoli on 27th of September 2005.
• Define a first common action plan for the Sha’abiyat along the Cyrenaica
Coast, which combines sustainable human development and environmental
conservation measures such as a network of Marine Protected Areas;
The mission started on 02nd until 05th of May 2005. The WWF consultant has worked
with the Libyan National Authority for Environmental Protection (EGA) in order to
prepare the program of the conference and identify the possible future partnerships.
ART GOLD, according to the MoU that should be signed in September, will be
partner of WWF in the implementation of projects that will foresee initiatives
finalized to create the conditions for a sustainable economic development of local
communities in respect of the eco characteristic of Cirenaica. The agenda of the
conference is available as annex 4.
After the mission of WWF, it was organized a mission in Greece and Spain with the
aim to have a first meeting between Libyan Authorities and Decentralized
Cooperation Committees of the two countries.
Thanks to EDINFODEC Program it was possible to have, in few days, a full agenda of
meetings in both countries. For the details of the mission please find attached the
mission report as Annex 5.
Thanks to the results, or better the opportunities created by ART GOLD, the interest
regarding the Programme has been extended to other Sha’abiyat.
The Ing. Senoussi, Inspector of Tech. Depart. of the Sha’abiya of Eljabal Akhdar has
organized a meeting with the Governor of the Sha’abiya Mr. FARAJ AL BARASI.
It was the opportunity to introduce the Programme to the Governor. As for the Area
of Jaghboub the coordinator has invited the Governor to write to the Ministry of
Planning the letter of interest to participate to ART GOLD.
After the second part of June it was slacken the activities of promotion of the
Programme. The foreseen meetings in Naloot and Gharian have been postponed in
relation at the announced arriving of the new CTA.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
In order to prosecute the ART GOLD Libya Programme activities the

following initiatives should be taken:
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• To identify for each Sha’abiya a national Focal point. The term of
reference are already drafted.
• To identify an expert for each Sha’abiya in order to assist the LWG in the
preparation of the territorial marketing documents and the identification of
the priorities for each sector of intervention of ART GOLD. The coordinator
tried to achieve this goal but, a part Mr. Zarrelli, it was not possible to receive
this kind of assistance.
• To cooperate with WWF for the organization of the conference, in September,
and for the identification of a Project of cooperation in the framework of ART
GOLD.
• The implementation of the Telemedicine Project with the involvement of the
three Sha’abiyat, the Italian, Spanish and Greek decentralized cooperation
committees already contacted. To continue the dialogue with Dr. Graschew
Georgi for the involvement of German committees in order to contribute to
build the Mediterranean virtual Hospital.
• The organization of a training programme on planning and local development
based on the proposal of ARTEM and partially implemented through the
proposal presented to the Ministry of Planning.
• The organization, as soon as possible, of the official meeting for the approval
of the Action Plan for ART GOLD.
• The organization of the delegations from Greece and Spain in order to give
continuity to the meeting held in those countries.
• To promote the projects already identified in the Sha’abiyat such as:
o The cataloguing of the historical and archaeological resources of
Butnan in cooperation with Soprintendenza per i Beni Librari e
Documentari IBC Regione Emilia-Romagna, in particolar, Mrs.
Giuseppina Benassati Responsabile catalogazione materiali grafici e
fotografici
o The project for the rehabilitation of the Medina of Derna with the
assistance of city of Matera. CIRCLE initiative has been involved in the
preparation of this project.
The information above provided are the more relevant for a smoothly succession in
the management of ART GOLD Libya. All the documents produced until now are
available on the PCs and the servers of UNDP Libya.
Tripoli, 12.07.2005
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Gianluca Nocera
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United Nations Development Programme

‫برنامج المم المتحدة النمائي‬

To: MR. JULIO GRIECO Date: 1526/06/05 Libya

From: GIANLUCA NOCERA

This document is prepared in order to provide to the new CTA,

Committees interested to cooperate with Libya. The details of the

For the Sha’abiya of Misurata

1. Muftah Abdalla Gibril Secretary of the People’s Committee for Education

For the Sha’abiya of Derna

1. Fathalla Muftah Sargewa Secretary of the Planning Council of Derna

3. Mohammed Najib Leias Member of the Technical and

For the Sha’abiya of Butnan

1. Fakhraldin-S-A-Mahmod Secretary of Trade Unions.

• Mr. Lorenzo de Prosperis – Chief of Cooperazione Italiana in Libya;

• Dr. Mahmoud Khaled – National Coordinator of FAO Programme

The mission agenda is attached as annex 3.

• To plan and start the organization of a National Conference on “Sustainable

In order to prosecute the ART GOLD Libya Programme activities the

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