Partners and Actors
- National Government Partners
Ministry of Interior – General Direction of Local Authorities; Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation ; National Initiative for Human Development (INDH); Agency of the Oriental Region; Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans Resident Abroad; Regional Delegation of Tourism of Tangier ; Regional Delegation of Culture of Tangier ; Region of Tangier-Tetouan ; Region of Oriental; Region of Fes-Boulemane; Agency for Promotion and Development of the North ; Banque Populaire Foundation for Enterprise Creation; National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Competences; Agency of Social Development.
- United Nations Partners
United Nations Development Programme; UN Women; International Organization for Migrations; UNICEF
- Bilateral Cooperation partners
Italian Cooperation; Direction of Swiss Cooperation; Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation; Belgian Cooperation; Direction of international cooperation of Monaco
- Decentralized Cooperation partners
Andalusian Fund of Municipalities for International Solidarity (FAMSI); Fund of Local Authorities of the Region of Umbria (FELCOS); Catalan Agency of Development Cooperation; Catalan Fund of Cooperation; Region of the Balearic Islands; Province of Malaga; Region of Valencia; Extremadura Cooperation (AEXCID); Italian Integral Development Agency (Calatino Sud-Simeto); Region of Marche; Province of Como; Province of Florence; University of Florence; Region of Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur; International Centre of Advanced Agronomic Studies of the Mediterranean; Conference of Peripheral Region of the Mediterranean; Assembly of the Regions of Europe; International Training Centre of Local Authorities (CIFAL); UNESCO Catalonia; Province of Jaén; Province of Sevilla; Province of Huelva; Province of Cordoba; Province of Barcelona; Province of Granada; Municipality of Barcelona; Municipality of Terrasa; Municipality of Sabadell; Association of Andalusian Foundations; Andalusian Foundation for Training and Employment; Institute of Employment and Development of the Province of Cadiz; Medicus Mundi Andalusia; Andalusian Institute of Technology; Municipality of Malaga; Labein Tecnalia Foundation; Centre of Research and Investments of the Mediterranean (CIREM); European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed); Centre of Economic Researches of the Mediterranean (CREMed); Foundation of Social Enterprises of Valencia; Municipality of Granada; Andalusian Network of strategic urban and territorial development; University of Malaga; University of Sevilla; University of Urbino; University of Huelva; University of Cordoba; Region of Umbria; Region of Champagne-Ardenne; National Institute of Urbanism (France); Mediterranean Forum of Beekeeping (Mediterranean Association of beekeepers); Association of Oil Producers of Trevi (APOT); Municipality of Forest (Belgium); Municipality of St Gilles (Belgium); Association of cities and municipalities of Brussels; Natural Regional Park of Luberon; Junta de Tandalucia; Fernando de los Ríos Consortium; University of Seville; University of Urbino; University of Huelva; University of Cordoba; Municipality of Aix en Provence; University of studies of Urbino “Carlo Bo”; Association of Beekeepers of Umbria; ASL 3 Umbria – Local Health Enterprise – Umbria; Technologic Food Parc 3 A – Umbira; Regional Agency for protection of the environment; City of Anvers (Belgium); Rural Development Group Los Alcornocales; Reserve of Intercontinental Biosphere for the Mediterranean; University of Granada; University of Sienna; University of Perugia; Tuscany Region; Arco Latino Network.
- Civil Society Partners
Fundación CODESPA; Proyecto Solidario; HabitAfrica; Association Rif El Andalous; AMSED; AIDCPPL; TARGA AIDE; Espace de Citoyenneté Network; MedCités; Association Oujda Ain Ghazal 2000; Fondation socio-culturelle Ibn Batouta – Tanger; Fundación IPADE; Save the Children; Asamblea de Cooperación Por la Paz; Association AHLAM; ADL; ADELMA; ATED; COAG; Solidaridad Internacional Andalucia; Association ISSAAF Jerada pour la solidarité et le développement ; Proyecto Local; Centre Marocain pour la Recherche et le Développement ; Association ECODEL
Background and Priorities
UNDP ART GOLD in Morocco was launched in 2007 in the regions of Tangier-Tetouan, Oriental and Fes-Boulemane. The second phase of the Programme ended in 2012 but ART GOLD has been extended in January 2013 in order to consolidate the ownership process of the ART methodology and the institutionalization of the coordination and planning mechanisms. 2013 is also the year of capitalization of the programme. As such, the National Committee of Coordination (CNC) met in December 2013, gathering local, national and international actors, to present the results of the Programme since 2007 and to evaluate it. This has led to the draft of a Manual of Capitalization.
Activities in details
The capacities of 15 national functionaries and 78 territorial functionaries of the Regions have been strengthened as well as the administrative and financial managerial capacities of 3 local associations in charge of the project in each region.
In the Region of Tangier-Tetouan, the Programme has supported the organization of the Second regional Forum of Local Authorities and Civil Society in Tangier, in which 253 persons have participated, from local authorities, civil society and international cooperation. A monitoring committee to relay the recommendations of the Forum has been created by the Regional Council.
Besides, 38 rural municipalities have been supported in the elaboration of diagnostics and action plans for equal opportunities in their territory to reduce gender inequalities and discrimination and 150 persons have benefited from a training cycle about territorial diagnostics and the concepts of equality and gender. Moreover, a training cycle in governance, local development, partnership mobilization and decentralized cooperation relations has been realized. In this regard, two exchanges of experiences in Catalonia and Andalusia have been organized in the framework of the projects Local Med and Local Plan in order to support the partnership mobilization and to strengthen the capacities in terms of strategic planning. UNDP ART GOLD Programme in Morocco has also facilitated the organization of the Second Forum of the medinas as well as the participation of the Regional Council of Tangier Tetouan to the Third Assises of decentralized Cooperation organized by the EU in Brussels in April 2013. The municipality of Chefchaouen has also participated to the Wacap Summit of Dublin, to the International Conference on South-South Cooperation in Vienna and to the Fourth World Congress of UCLG.
In the Region of Oriental, an interregional exchange has been organized in Oujda on 28 and 29 June, in collaboration with the Regional Council and the Wilaya of the Oriental Region, on the theme of strategic planning. A technical study visit in Catalonia has also been organized in the framework of the project Regional Initiative for the reinforcement of the capacities of the rural municipalities in terms of gender and equal opportunities as well as an international exchange in Marseille about the good practices of local democratic governance.
Finally, a new support project to local governance in the perspective of advanced regionalization (Projet d'Appui à la gouvernance locale dans la perspective de la Régionalisation avancée AGORA) has been formulated with taking into account the results and recommendations of the final evaluation of the ART GOLD Programme (Manual of Capitalization). An agreement was signed between the DGCL (General Direction of local authorities – Ministry of Interior) and UNDP Morocco for the launching of the AGORA Programme in 5 Regions.
Results at national level
At the national level, the UNDP ART GOLD Programme in Morocco has allowed a first draft of the creation of a national coordination space for international cooperation coordinated by the DGCL.
Also, the systematic publication of all the experiences realised since 2007 in the different areas (strategic planning, capacity building, support to decentralization, and coordination of decentralized cooperation…) has facilitated the capitalization and sharing of experiences in order to duplicate them in other regions of the country. These documents are for instance the Guidelines, the systematisation documents of the elaboration process of the communal plans of development (Plans Communaux de Developpement PCD), the capitalization document on training of social workers in the Region of Oriental, the document on training on rehabilitation, regeneration and enhancement of historic centres for local human development, etc. These documents are at the disposal of Moroccan local and national actors and will foster the generalization and institutionalization of the tools and ART methodology at the country level as well as the national and local ownership.
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