For the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), private investment, both domestic and foreign, is needed to provide new engines of growth and dynamism. The biggest challenge for MENA countries lies in strengthening the process of change, maintaining, supporting and tracking the progress of policy implementation as well as providing capacity-building assistance.

The Investment Programme offers a forum for results-oriented policy dialogue among MENA and OECD practitioners. This innovative partnership will serve to share know-how on best practices and lessons learned in implementing investment reforms.

Building on the OECD model of peer review, policy experts will closely work together to design innovative solutions, tailored to the specific policy environments of each MENA country.

MENA countries are elaborating National Investment Reform Agendas under the MENA-OECD Investment Programme. These Reform Agendas include concrete investment policy reform measures aiming at improving the country’s investment environment. They define reform targets in each of the policy areas covered by the Programme. Country Teams are implementing these reforms and participating in the Working Groups.

A number of countries (Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Palestinian National Authority, Oman, and Bahrain) have already completed this process and workshops to discuss their investment reform targets will be held in the coming months.