2024-07-16 23:10:11
The President of the Council of the Fez Meknes region, Abdelouahed El Ansari, indicated, during his presentation of the region’s experience in the development of the PDR, that territorial governance mainly involves the adoption of a participatory approach in the development of development programs through openness to the various stakeholders concerned and also by strengthening monitoring, control and management expenditure control.
The official focused during his intervention in the framework of the 3rd session, placed under the theme “challenges of implementing the second generation of PDRs”, on several challenges posed by the achievement of convergence and the strengthening of territorial governance, including the problems related to the execution of development projects and the availability of the land base of the projects, in particular industrial and logistics zones, emphasizing in this regard, the need to open consultations with the various departments and establishments concerned in order to find innovative means of financing to allow the regions to have more resources for the financing of their development projects and to work towards achieving harmony in the national accounting system.
The official considered that territorial governance, particularly at the level of municipal councils, is able to enable regions to fulfill their missions and prerogatives, noting that the second generation of PDRs represents a new chance to achieve harmony and convergence of programs with public policies.
For his part, the President of the First Chamber of the Court of Auditors Abdelouahab El Kadiri, stressed that the conclusions of the Court’s annual report 2022-2023 on the subject of the advanced regionalization project, highlight that the implementation of this project faces a certain number of constraints limiting, in a tangible way, the capacity of the regions to optimally fulfill their development missions, noting that the Court recommended the implementation and evaluation of the results of the actions programmed in the roadmap for the implementation of the administrative decentralization charter.
In this sense, he emphasized the need to complete the legal arsenal of the institutions supervising advanced regionalization, in addition to the need to strengthen the participatory approach in the development of development programs and the adoption of program contracts linking the State, the regions and the various actors and to adopt a participatory approach in dealing with the problem of human resources.
Mr. Kadiri also highlighted the need to set up a strategic steering body for administrative reform projects bringing together all stakeholders, with the aim of ensuring the achievement of the strategic objectives of these reforms and evaluating the execution of projects carried out by government departments and their impact on users.
For his part, the member of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, Abdelhay Bessa, discussed the means of improving the performance of the actors of the territorial system and the return on investment at the territorial level as well as the services provided to citizens, with a view to reducing spatial disparities in terms of development and the creation of wealth and employment opportunities.
In this regard, he noted a number of obstacles preventing the achievement of the objective, including in particular the interference between the competences of the territorial municipalities, the delay in the reorganization of the territorial administration, as well as the weakness of investment in spatial development, in addition to the delay in the adoption of a national strategy in the field of simplification of administrative procedures and the implementation of digital transformation policies already established in several sectors.
Mr. Bessa called for the carrying out of a progress assessment concerning the implementation of the advanced regionalization project, and for the revision of organic laws relating to territorial municipalities in order to attract the best skills in terms of human resources.
The fifth Parliamentary Forum of the Regions, organized under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI around the theme “the region: key player for the promotion of integrated and sustainable development”, aims to assess the level of convergence and complementarity of the regional policy of the State, which is mainly embodied in the consideration of the regional dimension in terms of distribution of the general budget of the State, public investment and in regional development programming.
2024-07-16 23:10:11