Speaking at the opening of the 2nd National Conference on Advanced Regionalization, held under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI under the theme "Advanced Regionalization: Between Today's and Tomorrow's Challenges," Bouaida stressed that the Region is called upon to fully assume its missions, manage its own affairs and exercise its prerogatives in an optimal manner.

The Region, she continued, is considered a vital and important space for creating material wealth and achieving integrated development, recalling, in this respect, the outcomes of the New Development Model which establishes administrative devolution and bolstering advanced regionalization project as essential pillars capable of meeting expectations and tackling various challenges.

The President of the Guelmim-Oued Noun Regional Council noted that advanced regionalization was the culmination of a gradual process and the enshrining of local democracy as a crucial strategy for developing the institutional structure and promoting territorial development, welcoming the conclusions of the first National Conference on Advanced Regionalization.

The three territorial levels (communes, provinces and regions) have elevated the Region to the status of a territorial space conducive to the convergence of public policies, she continued, calling for the challenge of training human resources and local elites to be taken up, so as to strengthen the attractiveness of investments and deal with crises, including those linked to water stress, transport, sustainable mobility and the digital transition.

After insisting on the imperative of taking these challenges into account in order to promote the advanced regionalization process, Bouaida stressed the need to adopt a participatory approach involving various territorial stakeholders, academics and civil society, with the aim of developing scenarios likely to improve and optimize this project to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

The opening session of the Conference was punctuated by the Royal Message addressed to participants, read out by Minister of the Interior Abdelouafi Laftit.

Organized by the Ministry of the Interior in partnership with the Association of Moroccan Regions, this two-day event marks a significant milestone in the implementation, under the impetus of the High Royal Orientations, of the Advanced Regionalization project as a structural institutional reform and strategic choice for enshrining the territorial development process.