The ATCT in brief

The Tunisian Agency for Technical Cooperation

The technical cooperation, which basically depends on human resources, is a way of sharing, exchange and solidarity between people. For this reason, Tunisia has not stopped striving for the promotion of technical cooperation which relies on partnership with different countries, basically Arab and African ones, seeking to benefit from qualified proficient Tunisians.

ATCT was established in 1972. For more than 52 years, The Agency has succeeded in assigning more than 55000 cooperating professionals and experts in various fields and countries. It still continues to deploy its efforts to that end.

The Tunisian Agency for Technical Cooperation – ATCT – is a state-run institution established in 1972 to put into practice the State policy with regard to technical cooperation by providing countries, namely Arab and African ones, with the required proficient Tunisians and by the implementation of development programs and projects within the frame of bilateral or trilateral cooperation, with the partnership of funders like the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (ABEDA), the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF)

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Identification, selection and recruitment of the Tunisian senior executives to work abroad according to brother and fellow countries’ and regional and international organizations’ needs

This is one of the main activities of the Tunisian Agency for Technical Cooperation.

Strong with more than 52 years of experience in area, the TATC has always endeavored to ensure a match between Tunisian available competencies and foreign partners’ needs using its resources of competences among the senior executives of the Tunisian administration, university institutions as well as private and public enterprises.

The cumulative number of senior executives having worked within technical co-operation increased from 1000 in 2023 to around 55000. 25084 cooperants are currently engaged with the ATCT..

They work mainly in education, higher education, health, agriculture and engineering sectors.

These executives come from the public and private sectors and work mainly in the areas of education, health, engineering and services.

Furthermore, there are four steps in the placement of cooperants:

01. the reception and study of the job applications

02. the selection of candidates

03. the preparation of cooperants

04. the secondment of cooperants to ATCT

ATCT has organized training sessions for more than 3,700 executives from african and arab countries in various fields such as:

Basic health
Advancement of women
Environment
Education and higher education
Publishing and distributing the school book
Literacy
Vocational training
The promotion of SMEs/SMIs
Agriculture and fisheries.
Quality Management
Finance
The Administration
The Judiciary
New technologies
Project Management.

These training sessions are carried out by tunisian individual and institutional skills within the framework of bilateral or triangular cooperation.

The ATCT works on the proper conduct of the training sessions and study visits and provides all appropriate conditions in terms of reception, accommodation, displacement, field visits, socio-cultural activities….

The ATCT organizes two types of training :

The Customized Training :

The ATCT receives many specific requests for individual or collective training from countries and specialized agencies (World Bank, UNDP, UNESCO, UNOPS, OIF, IDB, ADB, CIDA, AFD …).

This type of training, designed to meet the different needs expressed by the beneficiary parties, aims to enable trainees to acquire new knowledge or consolidate knowledge already acquired in connection with their duties and responsibilities.

To this end, the ATCT identifies the training program corresponding to the trainee’s experience, his linguistic knowledge, the objectives of the training requested and the tasks that he will entrusted with upon his return to his home country.

Among the areas that have been the subject of training we can mention:

the management of Higher Education institutions.
health and occupational safety.
the management of technical cooperation.
basic education.
the integrated rural development.
the management of maritime credits.
the safeguard and maintenance of the currency.
the promotion of private investment and the management of the external debt.

The Planned training :

Within the framework of its partnership relations with international and regional organizations such as the Islamic Development Bank “IDB” and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency, ATCT organizes training sessions in collaboration with Tunisian individual and/or institutional competences. This type of training covers priority areas such as :

Sustainable development
Reproductive health
Economic development (agriculture, investment, private sector assistance)
Programming and elaboration of studies and evaluation of development project
Women and development.
Combating desertification.
Public debt management.

It aims at a better exchange of experiences between participants and enrichment of their knowledge.

Consultancy missions and technical assistance projects for the benefit of developing countries

During the last 10 years, more than 781 Tunisian experts and consultants have carried out expert missions and technical assistance in different fields: fight against blindness, fight against poverty, promotion of women, vocational training and employment, quality, finance, administration, judiciary…

Annual evolution of Tunisian Cooperants and experts abroad

The promotion of South-South technical cooperation and trilateral cooperation:

Tunisia is one of the first countries in the South to have developed a South-South cooperation policy since its independence, particularly with the placement of Tunisian teachers in brotherly and friendly countries.(Mauritania, Djibouti and the Comoros Islands )

Its successful experience in various areas of development and its commitment towards countries from the South, allowed it to be considered as a “pivotal country” for the promotion of SOUTH-SOUTH cooperation and consequently:

to be invited to participate on a regular basis in activities of the High-Level Committee on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC), under the auspices of the Special Unit for TCDC within the UNDP,
to gain the support of the Special Group on TCDC for the organization of a capacity-building exercise and needs for sustainable human development in 13 African countries.
to be chosen by some developed countries as a partner.

The ATCT has been designated as the national focal point and, as such, represents Tunisia in international actions to promote technical cooperation among developing countries (TCDC).