World Deserts Foundation
# World Deserts Foundation

World Deserts Foundation (Fondation Deserts du Monde) is an Algerian non-governmental and intergovernmental organization. Its headquarters are located in Ghardaia, Algeria. Its mission is to promote sustainable development of desert regions.

World Deserts Foundation is one of the organizations participating on a continuing basis as the observer in the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

The Foundation has been established in 2002. 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. 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.

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* 1 2 3 Jeremy Keenan (18 October 2013). The Sahara: Past, Present and Future. Routledge. pp. 336–340. ISBN 978-1-317-97001-9.
* ↑ United Nations (15 December 2013). Resolutions and Decisions of the Economic and Social Council: Sessions 2012. United Nations Publications. pp. 118–. GGKEY:UG243UESRLE.
* 1 2 Jeremy Keenan (2 August 2004). The Lesser Gods of the Sahara: Social Change and Indigenous Rights. Routledge. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-1-135-75805-9.
* ↑ Jeremy Keenan (2 August 2004). The Lesser Gods of the Sahara: Social Change and Indigenous Rights. Routledge. pp. 214–. ISBN 978-1-135-75805-9.
* ↑ ECOSOC observers, Part V Archived 22 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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