A galaxy of political and economic personalities and associative actors from Morocco and elsewhere were in conclave, Friday and Saturday in Essaouira, to debate, through a series of round tables, the place that Moroccan women are called upon to occupy in political life in the wake of the enormous mutations that Morocco is experiencing, notably the regionalisation project. From the outset, the participants drew the observation, endorsed by several studies, that the situation of women in the Arab world and in Africa is a handicap to development and that, in a context of regionalisation, which imposes itself as a political imperative and a vector of development, it is essential to take real, concrete, and coercive measures to establish gender equality and align with international evolution in the matter. In this regard, some speakers estimated that society is ready to adopt the principle of parity, judging by the importance of female activity, the considerable presence of women in several national institutions, and the legal framework and measures adopted with the aim of establishing gender equality and fighting against different forms of violence against women. In the same vein, other participants believe that the very success of the regionalisation project is closely linked to the emancipation of women, given that among the objectives of this system of territorial governance figure the desire to mobilise all the nation's resources and the direct involvement of the citizen in the management of public affairs, adding that in this perspective, the regions will have everything to gain by relying on all their human forces, male and female, to face the challenges that are looming. But a fruitful reflection on this question passes, logically, by a detailed presentation of the new Moroccan model of regionalisation. To this effect, a panel composed of the advisor to HM the King and president of the consultative commission on regionalisation, Omar Azziman, as well as Nadia Bernoussi, professor of constitutional law, Sabah Chraibi, jurist, and Ali Bouabid, researcher, highlighted the factors that made the adoption of a new mode of territorial governance necessary, the great principles of this model linked, among others, to the unity of the State, territorial solidarity, and the progressiveness and gradualness of the implementation process, the perspectives that this ambitious project offers, but also the questions that its application raises. The point was thus made on the questions that this regionalisation poses at the level of territorial division, which should take into account the establishment of economically viable and culturally homogeneous entities, the disparity between regions, and the means and frameworks necessary at the regional level to carry out this project and ensure all the conditions for its success. In this sense, the academic, historian, and political scientist Hassan Aourid underlines, in a statement to MAP, that "despite the important results achieved at the level of the regionalisation project, one must be patient in view of the choices that commit the State and society, in addition to the questions posed by territorial distribution". "It is necessary to establish a balance between regionalisation, which is a tool for development and a framework to promote cultural particularities, and the requirements of the unity of the State and the duty of solidarity, while ensuring the progressive implementation of this project, in order to allow local actors to acclimatise to this new system," he indicated. Evoking regionalisation as one of the great reform projects that Morocco is experiencing could only lead the speakers to address the subject of the new constitution which, according to some speakers, launches a constituent process that will only effectively end after the adoption of the organic laws necessary for the implementation of this supreme text. In this sense, the panellists regretted the slowness of the implementation of the regionalisation project and the provisions of the constitution, notably those relating to the establishment of a Council for Parity, as well as the gaps that exist between the ambitions expressed by the legislation and the reality on the ground, notably at the level of the achievements made by women and which struggle, according to them, to materialise. In a more concrete register, light was shed on the development of educational, health, and sporting infrastructures as a network at the service of women. But rather than infrastructures, the debate was oriented towards the need to grant the interest that is needed to the human element in charge of managing these establishments in order to allow the objectives for which they were created to be reached, while insisting on the need to adopt a gender approach at the level of the design of this type of project, so as to facilitate the access of women to these services. The presence of women in political life being at the centre of this Forum, political parties were particularly questioned on the dull participation of women in decision-making and in electoral deadlines. In this framework, a round table brought together representatives of several Moroccan political formations, who were unanimous in pleading in favour of a massive adherence of women to political parties as a means of asserting their rights and forcing change from within, in the perspective of a more important role in the management of public affairs. In this framework, and given the political calendar marked by the 2015 electoral deadline, recommendations were formulated at the end of three workshops on the modalities of women's participation in the new regionalisation, with a view to initiating concrete action, in partnership with political parties, aimed at strengthening the female presence during the next elections.