Heba Press: Oujda
The Council of the Eastern Region organized, Tuesday, November 5 in the morning, at the Complexe des Savoirs, a joint workshop to prepare the open local governance action plan of the Eastern Region 2025-2027, under the slogan: “All for open, inclusive and sustainable governance”. region. »
This workshop constitutes the culmination of the involvement of the Eastern Regional Council in the process of strengthening participatory democracy and citizen participation in order to involve citizens in contributing to the preparation, implementation , monitoring and evaluation of regional development programs.
In her speech on this occasion, Saliha Hadji, vice-president of the Council of the Eastern Region, confirmed that following our membership in the Moroccan Network of Open Territorial Communities in 2022, the Eastern Region has prepared, in a participatory manner, its own opening action plan, which was structured around four strategic axes, 17 projects and 69 activities which were approved by the regional council during its ordinary meeting held on October 3, 2023, and the implementation of these projects began immediately afterwards.
She also added that, based on the clear desire of the regional council to engage in the openness process, an integrated application file for the local Open Government Partnership program was prepared, submitted jointly with the regions of Draa-Tafilalet. , Souss-Massa, Laâyoune-Sakia El-Hamra, Fès-Meknes and Guelmim-Oued Noun at the beginning of 2024. Four regions were selected as part of a consortium which includes, in addition to the Eastern region , the regions of Draa-Tafilalet, Laâyoune-Sakia El-Hamra and Souss-Massa. This is the first consortium at the international level which brings together four local authorities.
To activate this commitment, the Eastern Regional Council is working on a participatory preparation of the open local government action plan for the region for the period extending from 2025 to 2027, with the participation of all territorial stakeholders, led by civil society associations in the region. , so that a participatory committee is created in a transparent manner, which will be responsible for overseeing the preparation, implementation and monitoring and evaluating the open government action plan. This committee includes an equal number of representatives from civil society associations and. elected officials from the Eastern region, administrative executives and consultative bodies, as part of taking into account the territorial and gender approach.
The draft local government action plan open to the East is structured around three axes identified in a participatory manner.
To ensure selectivity with the rest of the regional programs, workshops were organized around 3 focal axes:
The first axis: Environment and climate: Prepare a regional program to reduce the effects of climate change in the East. This is an axis.
Shared between the four parties;
The second axis: Digitization (contribute to strengthening digital transformation in the region);
The third axis: social gender and integration.
Finally, the work of the workshops and the results of the joint preparation were presented through an action plan through problems, solutions, projects and activities.
