Seven years to the day have already passed since the launch of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH), inaugurated by H.M. King Mohammed VI on 18 May 2005. To celebrate the seventh anniversary of this project, the Governor of the Sidi Kacem province organised an information day last Wednesday to evaluate the action plan of the urban and rural programmes for the year 2012.
Local authorities, elected officials, heads of external services, main partners, and the local press were present at this meeting, which celebrated the launch of this social project. As the Governor of the province, Chakib Bourkia, said, "this project is established on the values of solidarity and social cohesion that draw their strength from our authentic traditions and find their expression in this institutionalisation that is the INDH, through local, provincial, regional, and national structures and establishments".
The implementation of the INDH programmes has made it possible to effectively fight against certain social phenomena such as poverty, social exclusion, and precariousness.
The results of the report presented are quite eloquent. For his part, Mohamed Abouynane, head of the INDH service, recalled the main guidelines of the second phase of the INDH. He stressed that the 2011-2015 phase of the INDH aimed at strengthening and anchoring the philosophy of the initiative and valuing the achievements of the first phase.
Its ambitions are translated, on the one hand, by the significant expansion of interventions in favour of people in target areas and, on the other hand, by the mobilisation of significant financial resources, namely 17 billion dirhams over 5 years. By way of summary, the INDH representative revealed that 129 programmes have been proposed for validation: 105 for the rural programme and 24 for the urban programme.
The committee will be invited to validate the budget for the development of the INDHs of the target communes and neighbourhoods, the coverage of which will be ensured by the transversal programme, for a total cost of 76.17 million DH, with the INDH participation being around 59.2 million DH and that of the partners 16.97 million DH.
Mohamed Abouynane concluded that within the framework of the implementation of a multi-year programming intended to allow more visibility in the medium term and promote the achievement of budgetary performance objectives (50% issuance, 90% commitment), the province intends to engage a BTE (Expertise Transfer Office) to support the governance bodies in the development of their action plans for the 2013-2015 period.
The process in question should take place in four major stages, starting with the organisation of a launch workshop and training of support teams. The second stage would be devoted to carrying out a descriptive diagnosis, the third to strategic analysis, and the fourth would see the development of the 2013-2015 three-year action plan.
The various missions would be punctuated by restitution workshops to promote convergence and the sharing of the results obtained. The estimated cost would be one million dirhams.
The Governor of the province stressed that the main achievement, beyond all the figures, was manifested in the consolidation of this new approach adopted in the conduct of local public affairs, in the principles of partnership and proximity adopted to face the problems of poverty and precariousness, and in the simplification of administrative procedures for everything related to programming and execution, all this in an environment imbued with transparency, efficiency, and responsibility. What is also to be remembered in this framework is above all the clarification provided by the Governor according to which all audit controls carried out so far on the action programmes have confirmed the commitment of all (public administrations, local authorities, and associations) and the conformity of their action to the spirit of the INDH, as well as to the respect of its rules and foundations.
