Saoudi El Amalki
The March session of the Souss Massa regional council, which was marked by the speeches of the President and the Wali of the region, focused on the evaluation of the Regional Development Program (PDR) and the various conventions of a budgetary, economic, social, and ecological nature, signed on the sidelines of the national symposium on regionalization. In this regard, we note the pertinent contribution of Master Abdeltif Ouammou to the debate that had been triggered during the discussion for this purpose. First of all, it is important to note that the Bâtonnier, in his capacity as an elected member of the regional council, takes the trouble, for each session, to dissect, with meticulousness and discernment, all the points on the agenda. Regarding the present one, the speaker, after having exhaustively reviewed the various financial aspects and their repercussions on the populations and territories of the components of the region, rightly questioned the impact of the region's multiple projects, whose effective financing reaches 26.1% of the overall budget, on the founding objectives of the program, which are pioneering economic strengthening, the improvement of social services and infrastructure, the establishment of the region in a multipolar position, and the consolidation of the Amazigh cultural identity. All these issues, continues the Bâtonnier, depend on the management capacity to accelerate administrative deconcentration measures to ensure diligent execution of projects, while strengthening partnerships with the private sector and public institutions in order to increase financing rates. Likewise, he continues, these approaches are subject to the ability to mobilize and motivate competence through the use of innovative governance and monitoring processes capable of guaranteeing transparency and efficiency at the time of project execution. To this end, explains Master Abdeltif Ouammou in his presentation, it would be appropriate to reiterate with insistence the major challenges that the region should face, notably the lack of water resources and climate change, infrastructure and urban development, the tourism sector, rural exodus and informal urban expansion, the strengthening of the regional economy and the processing industry, and the fortification of the provisions of Amazigh identity, culture, and language. It results from these findings that the region is at the heart of the employment problem and its socioeconomic repercussions, mainly due to the profound demographic transition that the populations are undergoing, the increase in job applications, and the graduates of education and training without the requirements of recruitment markets being adequate to the types of instruction granted. In addition to the insufficiency of job offers proposed by the regional economy, despite the efforts deployed in this regard.
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