NORTHWEST REG.PROJ.

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The First Phase Northwest Rural Development Project for Tunisia will help finance a 5-year time slice of the Borrower's 15-year development program for the Northwest region which aims to increase the income and improve the nutrition, health, and education of the population while reducing soil erosion and thereby arresting the decline in agricultural productivity. The program will also create employment possibilities, develop local energy resources, and reduce the sedimentation rate of the Sidi Salem reservoir. The project will concentrate on establishing the institutions which would implement the program, including the Office, and the extension, research, credit, and livestock development services. The project will also start up specific agricultural, soil conservation and forestry activities, together with productive infrastructure works, and would include a foreign technical assistance component.