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The First president of the Court of Accounts, Zineb El Adaoui, stressed on Tuesday the importance of strengthening the attractiveness of territories and called for the adoption of a national land strategy, as well as the establishment of incentive mechanisms to train, attract, and retain skills across all territories, while ensuring their professional stability.
Referring to the Court of Accounts’ significant actions before both Houses of Parliament, El Adaoui underscored the importance of making land available in order to stimulate and attract private investment, both in urban and rural areas.
This, according to her, requires the adoption of an integrated national land strategy that ensures coherence among the interventions of the various stakeholders and facilitates investors’ access to land, alongside the establishment of appropriate mechanisms for the recovery of public real estate and properties that have been misappropriated or illegally exploited, as well as the taking of coercive measures when necessary.
She pointed out that territories possess energy potential that makes them attractive areas for promising investments at the national level, such as renewable energies which, although their overall share in the electricity mix reached 45.3% in 2024, contributed no more than 26.7% to electricity production nationwide, thus necessitating continued heavy reliance on fossil fuels for power generation.
In this regard, she recalled that the Court of Accounts recommended the need to accelerate investments, particularly in the field of solar energy as well as in the electricity transmission network, notably the “Electric Highway” project linking Dakhla to Casablanca.
With regard to issues of territorial development and the optimal use of available water resources, she explained that water management requires the continuation of enhanced rationalization and the fight against reprehensible and irresponsible behaviors at the level of each territory, whether in regions known for their abundance or those suffering from scarcity, or under conditions marked by successive contrasting climatic periods.
Considering that human resources constitute one of the fundamental pillars of the success of development programs, she stressed that the Court of Accounts encourages accelerating the preparation of an integrated national strategy for upgrading the territorial civil service.
This strategy, she went on, should take into account the spatial, social, and economic specificities of each region, and be based on institutional contractual arrangements between the State and the regions in the field of human capital management, while also considering the competencies devolved to territorial authorities within the framework of the implementation of advanced regionalization.
In the same context, El Adaoui added that the Court recommends strengthening the attractiveness of the territorial civil service through incentive mechanisms capable of attracting skills and ensuring their professional stability, and of incorporating these mechanisms into a basic statute for the concerned categories of employees.
She also noted that the Court emphasizes the importance of consolidating collective action among the various institutional stakeholders, through cooperation, pooling, and the exchange of expertise and skills, in order to better deploy them at the local and territorial levels, particularly for strategic programs and projects.
As for the training of human capital, which constitutes one of the decisive factors in the economic and social development process, she recalled that the establishment of the City of Trades and Skills, considered one of the pillars of the roadmap for the development of initial vocational training, benefited from a precise governance framework and that its funding was secured through a multi-party agreement signed in February 2020, with an initial budget of 3.6 billion dirhams, revised in 2025 to reach 5.9 billion dirhams.
However, she underlined that the development of this City experienced a clear delay compared to the planned timelines, since, up to the 2024-2025 academic year, seven (07) out of 12 institutions had been put into service, representing about 74% of the planned intake capacity, estimated at 34,000 places per year.
In the same vein, and with regard to the Office for Vocational Training and Job Promotion (OFPPT), a major player in the field of training and in meeting companies’ needs in productive sectors, El Adaoui said that the Court encourages the establishment of an appropriate contractual mechanism linking it to the State in terms of objectives, resources, and expected results, through indicators with territorial and sectoral dimensions.
This contractualization, she added, is mainly intended to secure funding for roadmap projects and ensure their monitoring.
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