The city of Chefchaouen plans to join the list of "Child-Friendly Cities" (CFC) in the world, an international initiative launched by UNICEF within the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Born in Dakar in 1992, this initiative aims to involve villages, small towns, and large cities in the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child at the level of local affairs management. In Morocco, where a series of reforms in the field of childhood has been undertaken, notably in terms of harmonising national legislation with the provisions of the CRC and the adoption of a National Plan for Children (PANE) in 2006, this initiative was launched on 20 November 2009 with the signing by 5 Moroccan pilot cities of the "Child-Friendly Cities" Charter (Ait Ouallal, Ouisselssate, Beni Mathar, Guenfouda, and Tata), during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the CRC in Marrakech, in the presence of HRH Princess Lalla Meryem, president of the National Observatory for the Rights of the Child.

To prepare for Chefchaouen's entry into this list, the city recently hosted a meeting, the second of its kind, in the presence of the city's mayor, his counterpart from the Spanish city of Vejer de la Frontera, elected officials, delegates and representatives of the departments of national education, health, culture, and youth and sports, and certain associative actors.

It should be noted that since 2009, UNICEF Childwatch International and the Children's Environments Research Group have been conducting, thanks to the support of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, international research to define a tool to create a new type of dialogue between children and adults. Nine countries have agreed to participate in this research, namely Sudan, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Morocco, the Philippines, Jordan, Spain, Italy, and France.