About ANIMA
Who is ANIMA Investment Network
Created in 2006 in the framework of the Barcelona process / Euromed partnership, the ANIMA network brings together 70 member organisations in 20 countries and over 400 experts and partners who can be mobilised. The network collaborates with a large number of players in these countries: business networks, public agencies responsible for economic issues and international cooperation, enterprises, entrepreneurs and skills from the diaspora, international and bilateral cooperation organisations, ministries from associated countries, etc.ANIMA is headquartered in Marseille and has an office in Morocco.
Engage countries in cooperation aimed at transforming their economies while respecting the needs, interests and challenges of each.
Improve the performance of business support policies and institutions to contribute to the well-being of populations and sustainable development.
Promote businesses that create value for society.
Our actions
Federating a network of economic players by offering them visibility, contacts, information, opportunities for cooperation and the sharing of expertise.
Design and implement cooperation projects between organizations in Europe-Africa-Middle East. between organizations in Europe-Africa-Middle East.
Strengthen organizations and countries to improve their strategies and services for business development through training or consulting assignments.
Our values
Since the institutional creation of their network in 2006, ANIMA members have maintained a number of values that unite them and guarantee mutual respect and smooth cooperation within the network.
— Innovate and inspire with a pioneering attitude
— Supporting transitions
ANIMA’s experts and collaborators are in a privileged position to identify, develop and disseminate new ideas. Thanks to this, and to its light structure and flexible governance, ANIMA has always been able to stay one step ahead, giving the network part of its relevance and added value.
ANIMA aims to mobilize and support the private sector in social and environmental transitions. Aware of the urgent need to act in the face of climate change, the ANIMA network is committed to the Business for Climate Convention and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
— From diagnosis to concrete action
— Treat everyone equally
The network has always endeavored to do more than diagnose and plead, and not limit itself to incantation, by striving to implement its recommendations, when within its reach, within the framework of projects.
Everyone in the ANIMA network, whether they come from a governmental, territorial, public or private organization, from a northern or southern country, is treated equally.
— Subsidiarity principle
The network’s aim is also to assist, accompany, support and guide where necessary, but never to replace its partners. The network believes that, whatever the context, it will always be more effective in the long term to strengthen and legitimize existing structures than to replace them, even on an ad hoc basis.
Our added value
The agility and responsiveness of a human-scale structure.
The legitimacy of a public-private field network.
The credibility of a public-interest organization.
Experience and management capacity acquired after 17 years of activity and more than 45 cooperation projects.