 Activities
Parliament Support Project (PSP)
The State University of New York’s Center for International Development (SUNY/CID) implements a 3-year program of technical assistance and training for the Moroccan Parliament. The project was designed to strengthen the parliament’s capacity to oversee public finances, review legislation and policy and engage in a dialogue with citizens that increases public participation in parliamentary decision-making processes.
Local Government Project (LGP)
The Research Triangle Institute (RTI) implements a 3-year program of technical assistance and training for the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior/General Directorate of Local Government and General Inspection for Local Authorities; as well as the Moroccan Ministry of Housing/Social Housing Division. The Local Government Project was designed to bring citizens into the decision-making processes related to their priority concerns, including those related to low-income housing needs.
In the field, the LGP works closely with elected officials and civil society actors in over 10 partner cities in the Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaër, Greater Casablanca and the Meknès-Tafilalet regions. In order to encourage local management based on dialogue and information sharing between decision-makers and citizens, the LGP promotes four pillars of good governance: transparency, accountability, participation and performance.
Electoral and Political Processes
Under several cooperative agreements, US NGOs and academic institutions are working to build the capacity of Moroccan civil society, universities and political parties to contribute to effective representational government under Morocco’s system of participatory, consensus-based governance. The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) are both working with Moroccan political parties to improve their capacity to develop politically viable policy positions and to effectively communicate those positions to voters in the upcoming parliamentary elections. NDI has an additional cooperative agreement to work with Moroccan civil society to assure voter participation in the elections, especially among young voters and women. |
