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Promoting of Solidarity
Tunisia has adopted a social policy which reconciles
the imperatives of development with the needs of vulnerable social categories.
This humanistic aspect is most eloquently illustrated in the confirmation of the principle of solidarity as a basic
value and in the establishment of indispensable mechanisms for promoting it.
1 - The National Solidarity Fund (1993)
The National Solidarity Fund, created at the
initiative of President Ben Ali, intervenes in enclaved or isolated areas that lack such basic public services
and amenities as drinking water, electricity, health-care services and schools, roads, decent housing, etc.
The Summit on Social Development held in Copenhagen (Denmark) in 1995 applauded this achievement, which has already
proven its effectiveness by attaining highly tangible and promising results for underprivileged social categories
and disadvantaged regions.
To give an example, 928 localities and nearly 151,317 families had benefitted from the interventions of this fund
as of 1998. Activity will be stepped up during the 9th Plan, which will strive, between 1998 and 2000, to promote
the remaining regions concerned so as to touch some 1,150 areas that have already been identified, thereby eradicating
the structural causes of precariousness and giving all Tunisians equal opportunities for development and promotion.
December 8 has henceforth been declared National Solidarity Day.
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