Associations and parties awaiting official funds for the projects of actor of Moroccan women

The Ministry of the Interior heads, in 2025, to finance new projects related to the support and encouragement of the integration of women in political life and the elevation of their representation at the level of public affairs management centers in the kingdom, within the framework of the funds provided by the “support fund to encourage the representation of women” up to date years ago.

The committee responsible for activating this fund has announced the “request for projects n ° 10”, which will be opened until twenty-five next April. He also registered that this request concerns political parties and companies of civil society active in the fields of strengthening the representative capacities of women or the management of local affairs, provided that the date of its establishment dates back to at least two years.

According to a declared announcement of the signing of Mohamed Fawzi, the Governor – the general author of the Ministry of the Interior, the files of financing requests which belong to the organizations which benefited from financial support within the framework of the fund and did not finish the fund itself.

Project financing

In 2009, the “support fund to encourage the representation of women”, which intends to “empower women and improve their integration into political and electoral life at the national level by increasing their representation and improving their role in decision -making in various sectors”; By funding training initiatives and programs that seek to “overcome the structural and cultural difficulties that prevent women’s participation in political life”.

In her philosophy, male parliamentary women, teams within professional rooms, members of the advisory organizations of elected councils, as well as teams of local and regional groups and in the councils and regions of workers, then potential candidates and members of political parties.

According to official statistics, the funded fund funded 93 projects in 2022 and 58 in 2019, as well as 93 projects in 2018 and 71 others in 2016. During 2015, it managed to finance 86 projects and 68 in 2009, that is to say during the year of its official launch.

The value of the annual support published by the fund aforementioned in 2022 reached 11.43 million dirhams, compared to 8.03 million dirhams and 13.45 million dirhams in the years 2019 and 2018, respectively. With regard to the number of organizations benefiting from support during the year 2022, he reached 93 organizations distributed more than 87 local companies and 4 national companies, as well as two political parties.

The total ceiling of financial costs for financial projects is determined within the framework of the support fund at 140,000 dirhams for each project, the State contributes around 70%, on the basis of its implementation within six months, except during the period of the electoral campaigns in which these activities stop.

The strategy is updated

Amna Al -Toubali, researcher in questions of women and childhood, underlined: “The importance of this fund because she provides important funds to associations and organizations of women from the parties in order to carry out campaigns, visits and training courses, especially in the rural world, in order to support the political participation of women, appointment and votes.”

This comes, according to Al -Toubali, “in a circumstance which is characterized by the fact that women control a significant percentage of the electoral block, those who vote more than men, when they have fewer seats after the end of the electoral stadium”, at a time when he indicated that the improvement of the representation of women cannot be linked directly to this fund, but that it is rather attributed to the good changes that the ellectural laws have been submitted.

She added: “On what the fund itself has worked on since its creation is important; however, it must change its strategy and even the programs it offers, because it must move on to another level, with the importance of laws to change also, so that the rate of representation which gives women is around 30% of the seats.

He also regretted, in a statement to Hespress, that political parties and unions “do not automatically name women in elections in elections, because they only start from the principle of compulsory laws only; it is unacceptable to vote largely and largely win the percentage of years spent in the years spent on the support of women who are political leaders.”.

Motivation and integration

In the opinion of Bushra Abdo, director of the Association for Equality and Citizenship Challenge, “the above -mentioned private fund, which is supervised by the Ministry of the Interior, remains important overall, for its contribution to the formulation of women and motivating them to participate in the elections and to present themselves in the management of posts linked to the disposal of public affairs.”

Abdo recorded, in a press release in Hespress, that “the funds provided by this fund contribute to the practice to support training campaigns and framing the participation of women’s elections. The fund also contributes to their preparation, relatively, so that they insist the qualifications to participate in the change of institutions.”

The spokesperson herself said that “it is time to overcome the stereotype of Al-Kouta at the level of electoral laws, because we must go to the work stage in the spirit of the nineteenth chapter of the 2011 Constitution which stipulates equality”, explaining her rejection of “the bets of certain parties on the political exploitation of women;