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The government has given this challenge the place it deserves and has ensured to respect the commitments and enhance the achievements in this area, in order to stem all forms of poverty and social exclusion and reduce their effects on future generations, stressed Mr. Akhannouch in response to a central question in the House of Advisors, as part of the monthly session focused on the theme of the “Program for the reduction of territorial and social disparities”.
In this context, the Head of Government highlighted the enlightened Vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI in the launch of the Program, noting that the wise orientations of the Sovereign “have made it possible to draw up an ambitious program with integrated dimensions covering the period 2017-2023, in order to finance infrastructure projects in local authorities and remote or under-equipped areas, according to a precise observation of failures and needs, as well as a realistic diagnosis of disparities and the spatial deficit in the Kingdom, thus targeting 29,000 douars under 1,272 communities”.
Thanks to its multi-sectoral nature, the Program for the Reduction of Territorial and Social Disparities has laid the foundations for a modern approach to territorial interventions, based on the principles of convergence and coherence of policies in their global dimension, he noted, explaining that the objective is to improve its technical efficiency and the governance of the implementation of its various axes relating mainly to the opening up of the inhabitants of rural and mountainous areas, through the construction of roads and footbridges, the generalization of basic services such as electricity, drinking water, health and education and the guarantee of the necessary conditions for the strengthening and diversification of the economic means of these areas.
In order to ensure a real implementation of the objectives of the Program, it has been consolidated by essential pillars relating to the collective intelligence of all the actors concerned, indicated Mr. Akhannouch, emphasizing the consolidation of the participatory engineering of social and economic projects, the observation of its impact on the development of the targeted areas, as well as the guarantee of the effectiveness of the interventions and the integration of the human and financial resources of the bodies concerned.
The Head of Government noted that public financial investments of around 50 billion dirhams have been allocated to this program, explaining that they are distributed across contributions from all the bodies concerned, based on annual action plans of the regional commissions for the development of rural areas and mountainous areas, which oversee the development of a bank of priority projects in all the regions of the Kingdom.
In this sense, he recalled the establishment of an inter-ministerial mechanism which ensures the guarantee of sectoral integration, as well as the convergence of interventions in the rural world.
In this context, Mr. Akhannouch said that the Fund for Rural Development and Mountain Areas (FDRZM) has allocated all of its capacities for the period 2017-2023 to the Program for Reducing Territorial and Social Disparities, with a contribution amounting to 47% compared to its total envelope, and this, through the development of a participatory and contractual territorial approach, benefiting all the regions of the Kingdom, which contribute around 40% of their budgets, alongside the National Initiative for Human Development, the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water, as well as the other ministerial departments concerned.
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