Participatory strategic planning and pluriannual budgeting
30 June 2004
RTI International
Implementation of The Participatory Strategic Planning and Pluriannual Budgeting Project started in 2001 to support the capacity of Moroccan municipalities to fulfill their responsibilities within Morocco’s new decentralization framework, with a focus on the municipalities’ roles in promoting local economic development.
At the end of the 1990s, Moroccan local authorities—at regional, provincial and communal levels—were asked for the first time to develop their own social and economic development plans (PDES) for the 2000–2004 period and to consult their populations in the process. The exercise proved, for the most part, to be a disappointment. Left to their own devices, Morocco’s local authorities lacked the awareness, know-how, tools, and often, the willingness to carry out a truly participatory process to identify strategic objectives and to prioritize actions. Consequently, the planning process was often perceived as a bureaucratic constraint to be fulfilled rather than as a tool to formulate a vision for the future and mobilize the resources to achieve it. Unsurprisingly, most 2000–2004 plans consist of lists of unrelated infrastructure projects that do not fully take social and economic development into consideration.
Keywords: strategic planning
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