RABAT (BERNAMA-NNN-MAP) — Morocco’s High Commission for Planning (HCP) and seven specialised United Nations bodies have signed a partnership agreement to capitalise on the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Morocco in terms of monitoring and reporting.
The agreement was signed here Monday by the High Commissioner for Planning Ahmed Lahlimi Alami and Resident Co-ordinator of the UN System in Morocco, Bruno Pouezat on behalf of seven UN agencies — UNDP, UNFPA, WHO, UN-Women, UNAIDS and UNICEF and ECA.
The partnership is based on a process of capacity building and networking of different socio-economic actors to ensure sustainability and institutionalisation of the reporting system, while strengthening the advocacy and communication components as a tool to support decision making and strategic planning.
Lahlimi said that under this partnership, Morocco will lead a territorial approach which aims at strengthening and involving local and regional stakeholders to contribute to the efforts of decentralisation and regionalisation launched by Morocco.
“The HCP is committed to developing a great partnership with the UN that will not only highlight the achievements but which will also open up prospects for 2015 and beyond,” said Lahlimi.
Pouezat stressed that this new partnership reflected “the commitment and the strong determination of the kingdom” to implement the MDGs.
“The agreement will help to better prepare reports on development in Morocco for a better visibility of the progress achieved in the Kingdom, which will encourage them to conduct similar experiments in other countries,” he said.
The programme will be conducted within the framework of a collaboration between the HCP, the departments concerned, UN agencies, and civil society.
Meanwhile in Washington, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) re-affirmed on Monday Morocco’s “continuous eligibility” to benefit from the Precaution and Liquidity Line (PLL) approved last August, and which provides for a 24-month loan of US$6.3 billion.
The Fund’s Board of Directors finalised “the first performance review of Morocco part of an economic programnme supported by a two-year agreement under the PLL, and re-affirmed the continuous eligibility of the Kingdom to benefit from the funds of this liquidity line,” said IMF.
The agreement provides for a loan of US$3.6 billion during the first year and a cumulative value of up to US$6.3 billion during the second year.
