The city of Dakhla hosted, last Friday, a meeting on the national strategy for city policy. The Minister of Housing, Urban Planning and City Policy, Nabil Benabdellah, chaired this meeting in the presence of Hamid Chabar, Wali of the Oued Eddahab-Lagouira region, elected officials, officials and local actors, and which is a global and multidimensional approach aimed at establishing mechanisms for the integrated development of urban agglomerations. Speaking during a regional consultation meeting on city policy, the Minister stressed that this strategy, which will be presented for approval during the National Assizes on City Policy, scheduled for 13 June, should make it possible to apprehend the various problems of the city from a global perspective of local development favouring the convergence of the interventions of the various sectoral policies. And to add that the most important thing in this approach is to contribute to the strengthening of the principles of good urban and territorial governance, the goal being to correct dysfunctions, ensure coherent development of cities and make the various urban centres hubs generating wealth at the service of the different categories of society. According to a press release, this forum aims, through effective participation of all actors in the region, notably local authorities, territorial collectivities, associative and university actors, to jointly build the foundations of the "National Strategy for City Policy". It also aims to strengthen the foundations of good territorial governance, advocated by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, for the implementation of the various public policies. "These regional consultations on city policy, which will take into consideration the various projects and institutional reforms opened in our country, in particular the advanced regionalisation project, aim to provide regional actors with a global and integrated vision of city policy, capable of overcoming existing imbalances and ensuring harmonious growth of large cities, medium-sized cities and emerging centres, given their central role in global and sustainable human development," underlines this press release. This approach should strengthen the reception capacity of urban and rural areas and make them much more capable, at the same time, of producing wealth and growth, as well as guaranteeing spatial integration and social cohesion, for sustainable and equitable human development.