Environment and local planning

The Ministry Delegate in charge of the Environment is organising, on 24 January, in partnership with the Ministry of the Interior, a seminar on the role of research institutions in strategic planning. The objective of this seminar is to launch the debate on the role of research institutions in the strategic planning process integrating environmental, local and global issues, at the level of the Tangier-Tetouan region.In this regard, the two departments had jointly conducted a diagnostic study to assess the situation regarding the integration of the environment into local strategic planning. The said study revealed certain shortcomings, notably a lack of competence in integrating the environment into strategic planning at the level of territorial collectivities, hence the need to carry out priority actions aimed at overcoming the identified shortcomings.Among the proposed actions, it is…