The 2021-2025 business climate improvement and recovery support project, launched thanks to a $1 million donation from the African Development Bank (AfDB), will not be completed in 2025 as initially planned . This is what the daily says The Economist in its Tuesday, December 31 edition.
Following an ADB evaluation mission carried out in Morocco on December 2 and 3, the Ministry of Finance requested an extension of the project over a period of 12 to 18 months in order to carry out the remaining activities. . “The request, made on this occasion, is currently being examined at the Bank level.», lit.
In the meantime, the activities covered by this extension concern six main actions. The training planned for the National Business Environment Committee (CNEA) was only 40% completed. Out of five scheduled training courses, only two were carried out, leaving three to be finalized.
“Methodological notes and guidance notes on reforms to improve public policies are also on the list. Out of five programmed notes, only two are achieved, or 40%. There therefore remain three notes to be produced during the additional time requested. further specifies the daily.
The report on the improvement of the institutional and operational aspects, intended to optimize the impact of communication, also remains to be produced. To date, it has not yet been produced, as has the narrative report for dynamic support and the recruitment of an individual consultant responsible for supporting the implementation of activities.
However, three important steps have already been completed: the completion of the report of the expert mission on the thematic aspects, the completion of the study on the new sources of competitiveness of the Moroccan economy, and the drafting of the narrative report on capacity building.
It should be noted that the services of the head of government now have better tools to coordinate public action and implement economic and social reforms.
“The roadmap for improving the business climate, in line with the high royal guidelines and the main conclusions of the New Development Model, aims to stimulate investment and entrepreneurship, while encouraging the emergence of ‘a new generation of investors and entrepreneurs’, reminiscent of everyday life.
Its strategic orientations focus on boosting private investment and facilitating the act of entrepreneurship; the framework law forming the investment charter; the proposals resulting from the CGEM white paper as well as those of other private and institutional actors; and on improvement measures proposed by public and private actors at the territorial level. This action plan is based on four pillars, including one transversal, and 10 priority projects.
“The first pillar aims to improve the structural conditions for the act of investing and entrepreneurship, in particular by strengthening business law, digitalization and decentralization of administrative procedures. The second pillar targets strengthening national competitiveness, by mobilizing financing to support recovery, improving access to renewable energies, and strengthening access to land as well as logistical competitiveness», lists The Economist.
The third pillar focuses on developing an environment favorable to entrepreneurship and innovation. As for the transversal pillar, it concerns the strengthening of ethics and the prevention of corruption.
