This event, initiated with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) within the framework of the Local Governance Programme (LGP), aims to open the debate on the consideration of networking local elected women for the strengthening of their active participation in public and political decision-making. This seminar also aims to provide local elected women with a framework for exchanging experiences and sharing inter-provincial expertise on the challenges of networking. Beyond these objectives, the networking of local elected women contributes, according to the organisers, to the promotion of local democracy through the emergence of the leadership of elected women in the perspective of the upcoming communal elections. This meeting also constitutes the occasion to present Morocco's support initiative for the creation of the network of elected communal women at the level of the African continent in 2010. It should be recalled that the USAID Local Governance Programme (LGP) is conducted in partnership with the General Directorate of Local Authorities of the Ministry of the Interior. The LGP has two essential objectives which consist of strengthening the capacities of local authorities so that they can improve their services to citizens and increasing the participation of citizens in the management of communal affairs, in particular that of women and young people, in order to establish a constructive dialogue between the population and its commune.