Beyond the working framework of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE), it aims to specify the methodology, approach and procedures for the participation of the populations and institutions concerned.

"The Council will align its work with the framework of the advanced regionalisation project and will focus on all the southern provinces, even if particular attention will be reserved for the recovered provinces," stated Mr. Benmoussa, President of the CESE, on the occasion.

In its content, the report produced by the Council's officials also provides a summary of the efforts made since 1975 in these regions to ensure the security of the populations.

The experts' findings, however, reveal a paradoxical balance sheet, marked both by infrastructure and facilities more developed than in the other provinces of the Kingdom and by structural problems hindering a real take-off for these regions.

"The difficulties of social cohesion and integration, fuelled by the feeling of inequity felt by categories of the region's population," explains Mr. Benmoussa, quite rightly. Social tensions among the Sahrawi populations, particularly the youth, are the result.

Faced with this situation, one of the actions proposed by the CESE through its president is to opt "for a progressive reform in favour of the development of the southern provinces".

The creation of wealth and its distribution to disadvantaged populations through the creation of jobs and housing should make it possible to stabilise the populations and create a healthier social climate.

On the other hand, an improvement in the living conditions of these populations will allow them to settle, reducing the exodus towards the major cities of the Kingdom.

It is only through this logic that the policy of regionalisation can be triggered... And this throughout the entire Kingdom.