 A regional consultative meeting was held yesterday, Thursday, in Laayoune to prepare for the second session of the National Debate on Advanced Regionalization, which will be hosted by the city of Tangier on December 20 and 21 under the slogan "Advanced Regionalization: Between Today's and Tomorrow's Challenges".
This meeting, which is part of the series of consultations related to the preparation of this debate, aims to learn about the objectives and methodology of organizing the debate and the participation of the regions, and to discuss the six topics of the debate with a view to framing the participation of regional actors in its work, in addition to preparing recommendations based on the experience of the regions with the aim of including them in the general recommendations of the debate.
The Wali of the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region, Governor of Laayoune Province, Mr. Abdel Salam Bekrat, highlighted in a speech on the occasion that this meeting aims to review the achievements made within the framework of the extended regionalization, especially with regard to its legal framework, noting that advanced regionalization constitutes a strategic choice and the country's challenge to implement projects and programs, based on the high royal directives aimed at achieving sustainable, equitable and balanced territorial development.
Mr. Bekrat called on the participants in this consultative meeting to seriously engage in these consultations by working to enrich the discussion and prepare recommendations and proposals with added value, which can be implemented to be presented during the second national debate on advanced regionalization.
For his part, the President of the Council of the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra Region, Sidi Hamdi Ould Errachid, stressed in a speech read on his behalf by his First Deputy, Belahi Abad, that engaging in the implementation of the advanced regionalization workshop represents today a fundamental direction within the major national development options that our country is working to establish within the framework of an approach in which roles are integrated to build a development model capable of meeting the urgent requirements and increasing needs of citizens, thus contributing to reducing class differences and territorial disparities and enabling the achievement of social and spatial justice.
Sidi Hamdi Ould Errachid noted that this consultative meeting was an opportunity to evaluate the results of the first mandate period, which was a founding phase for advanced regionalization, which focused primarily on creating and activating the various structures of the Regional Council in accordance with Organic Law 111.14 relating to regions.
He added that this meeting was an opportunity to study ways to accelerate the pace of implementing the advanced regionalization system in order to successfully embody the strategic royal workshop on the ground.
This meeting was distinguished by the issuance of a set of recommendations that focused in their entirety on three priority axes concerning the provision of financial appropriations capable of financing and implementing regional development programs, activating the powers granted to the regions with their scrutiny and clarification, and accelerating the implementation of the Administrative Decentralization Charter.
The meeting witnessed the organization of six workshops focusing on "Challenges of activating the powers of the region to promote territorial attractiveness", "Digital transformation as an entry point to strengthening participatory democracy and establishing open territorial groups", "Convergence between decentralization and administrative decentralization is a basic requirement to stimulate productive investment", "Challenges of financing investment programs for the regions", "Securing water supply in light of water stress between current challenges and future visions", and "Developing the transportation and mobility system to achieve integrated regional development".
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