CSMD: End of Consultation Process, Report Expected Early January

23 November 2020 Printable Version

Rabat - The process of broad consultations, led by the Special Commission for the Development Model (CSMD) since December 2019, comes to an end, announced on Monday the CSMD, which said that a report will be submitted to HM King Mohammed VI "no later than early January 2021", in accordance with the Sovereign's High Guidelines.

In a press release, the CSMD recalled that it set up, for 10 months, an ambitious system to collect citizens' expectations and their main development concerns, as well as their proposals for the Morocco they want.

To this end, listening sessions were organized to consult with political parties, economic operators, unions, the various components of civil society, public administration, universities and specialized international organizations, and collect their contributions, added the same source.

Also, a digital platform (CSMD.ma) was launched in April 2020 to allow Moroccans inside and outside the country to submit their proposals to the Commission, noted the press release, adding that the members of the Commission have traveled to several regions of the Kingdom to conduct meetings and field visits, during which the exchange with the populations made it possible to understand the expectations of stakeholders and citizens.

The Commission underlined that particular interest has been given to the regions and a cycle of regional meetings was conducted with representatives of the 12 regions of the Kingdom, in order to identify the levers to create regional growth and institutional, economic and financial mechanisms to drive it.

The Covid19 pandemic and the restrictions measures put in place in the context of the health crisis have not interrupted this process of consultations, but made it more necessary to understand the impact of the epidemic, noted the same source, specifying that this process of broad consultations continued online and by video-conference.

During this consultation process, the Commission carried out 70 hearings and listening sessions, 113 workshops, 35 citizen listening sessions organized in different cities of the Kingdom and traveled to 30 sites in Morocco, said the same source, noting that these listening sessions and workshops made it possible to meet and listen directly to nearly 10,000 people.

The CSMD said that as of November 30, the contributions received on the platform and by mail could no longer be directly used in its final report.