Economic and Social Affairs Division

This division includes:

Its duties:

promoting the city’s natural assets, infrastructure, skilled workforce and investment opportunities to local and foreign investors; taking initiatives to boost economic and social development, in particular by helping to organise and upgrade the informal sector and contributing to studies on trade, industry, tourism and crafts;
providing logistical support for economic events in the city;
helping prepare and update the Municipality’s Action Programme;
helping prepare partnership agreements between the Municipality and economic and social stakeholders.

It helps promote cultural activities. To this end, it:

helps organise and run cultural events in the city with public cultural bodies and civil society;
manages the Municipality’s cultural facilities;
provides logistical support to cultural associations;
helps prepare partnership agreements with cultural associations and organisations;
receives and prepares the files of active cultural associations receiving municipal grants and submits them to the Human Development, Cultural, Social and Sports Affairs Committee, which proposes amounts according to its scoring criteria, before final approval by the President.

Its duties:

helping organise and run sports events in the city in partnership with all stakeholders;
managing the Municipality’s sports facilities (halls and pitches);
providing logistical support to sports associations and clubs (trophies, kit, balls, nets, transport, pitches, halls);
preparing partnership agreements between the Municipality and sports stakeholders;
receiving and preparing the files of active sports associations receiving grants and submitting them to the relevant committee, which proposes amounts according to its criteria, before final approval by the President.

Its duties:

contributing to the work needed to promote social activities;
taking part in social outreach with public social services and civil society;
carrying out all forms of assistance, support, solidarity and humanitarian or charitable work, through partnerships with NGOs and social and humanitarian associations;
contributing to programmes to assist, support and include people with disabilities and all those in difficult situations;
contributing to national, regional and local literacy programmes;
setting up and updating the local human development committees and outreach teams in the neighbourhoods targeted by the National Human Development Initiative (INDH) / urban social exclusion programme;
preparing the internal rules of these committees;
ensuring INDH projects are scheduled by the local committees for the targeted neighbourhoods, in line with the INDH procedures manual;
overseeing the preparation of local committee meetings to review and approve proposed projects;
drafting the minutes of these meetings and sending copies to the Wilaya services for approval by the provincial committee, and to the studies and planning division to prepare project fact sheets;
receiving and preparing the files of active social associations receiving municipal grants and submitting them to the Human Development, Cultural, Social and Sports Affairs Committee.

Municipality of Kénitra