CSMD, Structure for Approaching Future with Serenity and Confidence

The Ad-hoc Committee for the Development Model (CSMD), is an advisory structure tasked with outlining a new development model in order to enable Morocco and Moroccans to approach the future with serenity and confidence.

Set up by HM King Mohammed VI, in December 2019, this committee, made up of 35 members in addition to its president, has the mission of assessing, with objectivity, the achievements of the Kingdom, the reforms undertaken taking into account the expectations of citizens, the international context and its prospects for development.

It is also concerns outlining a new development model, with a view to guaranteeing the fundamental economic, social, cultural and environmental rights, as well as civil and political rights to the citizens.

The particularity of this committee, chaired by Chakib Benmoussa, is to ensure a triple mission of readjustment, anticipation and forward-looking, enabling the Kingdom to approach the future with serenity and assurance, while based on the various accomplishments by the national economy during the last twenty years, by taking into consideration the main broad lines of the reforms undertaken in multiple sectors, in particular education, health, agriculture, investment and the tax system.

To this end, listening sessions were organized to consult with political parties, economic operators, unions, the various components of civil society, public administration, universities and specialized international organizations and collect their contributions.

The CSMD members carried out around thirty field visits, interviewed 70 managers in-person or by teleconference, led 113 workshops and processed 6,600 written contributions from different organizations, in addition to the establishment of an ambitious system to collect citizens’ expectations and their main development concerns, as well as their proposals for a better Morocco, at all levels.

The committee pays particular attention to the regions and to the creation of value in the territories. In this logic, a cycle of regional meetings was conducted with representatives of the 12 Regions of the Kingdom, in order to identify the levers to create regional growth poles and their institutional, economic and financial mechanisms.

Since the start of its work, the CSMD was able to set up an online platform (csmd.ma) to collect proposals from Moroccans, inside and outside Morocco, who would like to express their vision of the future Morocco.

In total, CSMD members interacted directly with 9,719 people and interacted via social media with 20.3 million people.

HM the King chaired, on Tuesday at the Royal Palace in Fez, the presentation ceremony of the general report of the Ad-hoc Committee for the Development Model and granted on this occasion an audience to Chakib Benmoussa, president of this Committee, who presented to the Sovereign a copy of the report.