Morocco and UNDP sign two cooperation agreements

Morocco and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) signed in Rabat on Monday two cooperation agreements on support to strategic planning of sustained human development and on struggle against poverty.

The first agreement is meant to improve planning and follow-up approaches and techniques and consolidate capacities of planning departments through the participation of communities, transparency follow up and assessment of development projects.

The second agreement, dealing with the struggle against poverty, is the second phase of the UNDP program in Morocco. It was crafted on the basis of results achieved by the first phase which carried out development projects for poor populations in four Moroccan provinces.

The two agreements were initialed by minister of economic forecasts and planning, Abdelhamid Aouad, and the UNDP permanent representative and coordinator of the U.N. system in Morocco, Bouna Semou Diouf.