HIBAPRESS – A. Mahyoui
Meknes hosted today, Friday, January 9, 2026, training sessions organized by the Organization of Women Activists, in partnership with the Support Fund dedicated to encouraging women's representation, under the slogan: "Local Women Leaders for Fair, Solidarity and Integrated Territorial Areas".
These sessions fall within the framework of the national dynamic aimed at strengthening women's capabilities in the field of leadership and advocacy, and enhancing their active participation in the management of local and regional affairs, which contributes to achieving territorial development based on justice, equality and integration.
This meeting was attended by a number of political and organizational figures, including Kabaj Wafaa, a member of the Organization of Women Activists and head of the organization's regional office in Meknes, Younes Mellal, advisor to the second chamber of parliament and vice-president of the Meknes prefectural council, in addition to Boutiyen Abdelmalek, the regional coordinator of the Popular Movement Party in Meknes, and Fadwa Mohsen Al-Hayani, a parliamentarian from the Fes-Meknes region and a member of the Organization of Women Activists, in addition to Khadija Al-Kour, president of the Organization of Women Activists.
The meeting also witnessed the wide participation of regional, provincial and collective advisors, and figures from civil society, in addition to advisors in professional chambers, which gave these sessions a participatory and interactive dimension that reflects the importance of openness to the various components of the territorial fabric.
During the training sessions, a group of topics related to territorial governance, the roles of territorial communities, advocacy mechanisms for integrating women's issues into local public policies, as well as ways to enhance women's representation in decision-making positions were addressed.
The organizing party confirmed that this initiative aims to prepare local women leaders capable of effectively contributing to the implementation of development projects and facing spatial challenges, in harmony with national bets related to empowering women politically and institutionally.
