Morocco’s Fez-Meknes Region Allocates 6.83 Billion Dirhams to Boost Rural Development

6.83 billion dirhams. This is the amount to be injected to reduce territorial and social disparities in the rural world, in the Fez-Meknes region.

The Rural Development and Mountain Areas Fund, the Fez-Meknes Regional Council, the National Initiative for Human Development and the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (376 MDH) will contribute, respectively, 3.107 billion dirhams, 2.7 billion dirhams, 617 million dirhams and 376 million dirhams, according to the data made public during the presentation of the mid-term review (2015-2018) of the Fez-Meknes Regional Council.

In this program, a fund of 4 billion dirhams will be used for the construction of rural roads and tracks. Similarly, a financing of 1.5 billion dirhams will be invested in the rural electricity network, for its reinforcement. The sanitation of water and access to drinking water will require an investment of 872 million dirhams. 211 and 160 million dirhams of investment will be allocated, respectively, to the education and health sectors.

Several areas, in particular, support for access to basic services (rural roads, electrification and drinking water), schooling and access to care are concerned by the reduction of territorial and social disparities in the rural world. The program aims to open up rural and mountainous areas, to put in place the necessary conditions to increase the economic potential of these localities and, finally, to strengthen the access of the target populations to basic services.