World Deserts Foundation (Fondation Deserts du Monde) is an Algerian non-governmental [1] and intergovernmental [2] organization. Its headquarters are located in Ghardaia, Algeria. [3] Its mission is to promote sustainable development of desert regions. [4]
World Deserts Foundation is one of the organizations participating on a continuing basis as the observer in the United Nations Economic and Social Council. [5]
The Foundation has been established in 2002. [3] It has created by the Algerian politician and then Minister of Tourism, Cherif Rahmani, as means to receive a share of funds from United Nations Development Programme allocated to the project overseen by the Algerian Ministry of Culture, as well as to provide a government-friendly, but officially independent and non-government partner for the purpose of securing funding that is not meant to be allocated to public institutions. [1] For that reason, the Foundation has been criticized as a tool to misuse development funds and exclude proper civil society organizations who are less supportive of the government or have less ties to the current administration. [1]
World Deserts Foundation (Fondation Deserts du Monde) is an Algerian non-governmental [1] and intergovernmental [2] organization. Its headquarters are located in Ghardaia, Algeria. [3] Its mission is to promote sustainable development of desert regions. [4]
World Deserts Foundation is one of the organizations participating on a continuing basis as the observer in the United Nations Economic and Social Council. [5]
The Foundation has been established in 2002. [3] It has created by the Algerian politician and then Minister of Tourism, Cherif Rahmani, as means to receive a share of funds from United Nations Development Programme allocated to the project overseen by the Algerian Ministry of Culture, as well as to provide a government-friendly, but officially independent and non-government partner for the purpose of securing funding that is not meant to be allocated to public institutions. [1] For that reason, the Foundation has been criticized as a tool to misuse development funds and exclude proper civil society organizations who are less supportive of the government or have less ties to the current administration. [1]