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In the recommendations that sanctioned the work of this forum, organized under the High Patronage of HM King Mohammed VI, the participants stressed the need to accelerate the adoption of a legal mechanism aimed at rationalizing the contractualization process between the State and the region and increasing the effectiveness of its mechanisms provided for in the Organic Law relating to the regions, while calling for the updating of the timetable adopted by the Interministerial Commission for Administrative Decentralization, with a view to taking the necessary measures for the implementation of the provisions of the decree relating to the National Charter for Administrative Decentralization.
They also recommended accelerating the launch of the legislative and regulatory adaptation project linked to the skills of ministerial departments in connection with the skills of local authorities, in light of the provisions of the Orientation Framework relating to the implementation of regional skills resulting from the work of the 1st national symposium on advanced regionalization, held in Agadir in December 2019, and the recommendations of the final document sanctioning the 4th parliamentary forum of the regions, held in October last year.
The Forum also called for the creation of a body with the Head of Government, responsible for the strategic management of the advanced regionalization project, with a view to meeting the challenge of the convergence of national and territorial public policies, and supporting the Ministry of the Interior in its support of regional councils.
Participants also called for a review of the legal framework governing local authorities to make it clearer and more harmonious, particularly with regard to the reconsideration of powers and their distribution between the State and local authorities.
Regarding the challenges related to the promotion of private investments at the regional level, the participants in the forum recommended accelerating the pace of transfer of priority skills related to investment to decentralized services, with the aim of facilitating administrative investment procedures and enabling investors to carry out their projects in optimal conditions, as well as accelerating the adoption of the regulatory text relating to electronic signatures, in order to strengthen the exchange of information between all parties concerned with the aim of encouraging investment at the level of each region.
They also called for a review of the legal and regulatory framework for partnership between the public and private sectors, as part of the exercise by the regions of their various powers, in particular by facilitating the conditions for concluding partnerships and mobilizing financial resources, stressing the need to work towards the participatory development of regional investment pacts, in order to ensure better territorial adaptation.
Regarding the challenges of the State’s regional policy in terms of public investment, the participants recommended activating the “public investment management system” in order to ensure a better selection of projects proposed for public financing, and to broaden the scope of application of this system to institutions and local authorities.
This parliamentary forum, organized by the Chamber of Advisors, in partnership with the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, the Association of Regions of Morocco, the Moroccan Association of Presidents of Prefectural and Provincial Councils and the Moroccan Association of Presidents of Municipal Councils, constitutes an “innovative” institutional framework for implementing the spirit of the Constitution.
The organization of the forum is part of the institutional interaction with the High Royal Directives, in particular those contained in the Royal Message addressed to the participants in the First National Conference on Advanced Regionalization, held on December 20, 2019 in Agadir.
The forum, prepared within the framework of four regional thematic colloquiums in Dakhla-Oued Eddahab, Draa-Tafilalet, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, aims to debate and evaluate the regional policy of the State from the point of view of convergence, integration and collective anticipation of development policies of local economic systems, integrated according to a global approach aimed at improving the living conditions of citizens and reducing spatial and social disparities.
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