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The High Atlas Foundation has been conducting participatory planning meetings with local communities in Boujdour province for most of the past year, where people\u2019s voices are heard and action plans are created for priority projects. \u00a0As part of the participatory process, public-private partnerships are forged toward providing support for the community initiatives.<\/p>\n
HAF is pleased to announce new local partners in the Boujdour. \u00a0The provincial partners are: the Delegations of Youth and Sports and Education, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the High Commission of Waters and Forests. \u00a0HAF has signed direct partnerships with four schools. These partnerships will support community projects in drinking water, green business development with youth and single-unwed mothers and in school tree planting and environmental stewardship.<\/p>\n
HAF facilitators held participatory meetings in the fishing communities of Assifat and Elkaa, with nomadic communities within the Jrifia commune, and in Boujdour City, which has a population of over 61,000 people. \u00a0Rural and urban priorities showed some overlap. Communities identified three top priorities:<\/p>\n
1.Clean drinking water and irrigation<\/strong><\/p>\n 2.School Infrastructure and activities, paved roads (also in rural areas), mosques, and public bathrooms in Boujdour City<\/strong><\/p>\n Community meetings in Boujdour City income generation to alleviate the challenges of underemployment among youth. \u00a0Infrastructure needs came from rural and urban meetings. \u00a0On 16 January 2014, HAF celebrated the planting of its one millionth tree in Morocco. \u00a0On that day, HAF planted more than 10,000 trees at 43 projects sites in 8 Moroccan provinces. \u00a0Communities in Boujdour participated in tree planting at four elementary schools and one educational center \u2013 240 trees were planted (olive, citrus, apple, and pomegranate). \u00a0The new provincial partnerships enhance HAF\u2019s relationships with communities to enable local people to address opportunities through sustainable development and viable solutions.<\/p>\n On 23 February 2014, HAF held a planning meeting with divorced and widowed women to identify issues of concern and to begin developing plans for a women\u2019s cooperative. \u00a0With HAF staff, the women identified and discussed potential cooperative projects, including sewing, carpet making, baking, and ranching before voting unanimously that a fish packaging plant holds the most promise for the community. The women, who have for so long struggled to provide for their most basic needs, are devoted to working long hours to making this factory a success.<\/p>\n HAF is committed to communities creating a future that is transformative. \u00a0This is because what HAF does is people-driven with highly productive private-public partnerships at different levels. \u00a0We therefore believe, based on our experience and results, that HAF and its partners are building in Boujdour and in nine other provinces of Morocco a global model for investment in human development.<\/p>\n The High Atlas Foundation has been conducting participatory planning meetings with local communities in Boujdour province for most of the past year, where people\u2019s voices are heard and action plans are created for priority projects. \u00a0As part of the participatory process, public-private partnerships are forged toward providing support for the community initiatives. HAF is pleased<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/boujdour-partnerships-5-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"HAF](\"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/images\/stories\/boujdour%20partnerships%201.jpg\" "\\"HAF")
Participatory community planning revealed that both the local people of the rural fishing and nomadic villages in the Jrifia commune stressed water as the priority for them. \u00a0This project will help many people avoid illnesses, increasing longevity and quality of life and creating conditions that help to lift them out of poverty The plan is to dig and equip six wells in six nomadic villages, and deepen, repair and equip two additional wells in two fishing villages. \u00a0This community project will benefit 3,500 fishermen in the two fishing villages, and a seasonally fluctuating population (depending on water availability) of between 1,000 to 6,000 Khaima \u201chouseholds\u201d (from several thousand to approximately 20,000 people) in Albadia nomadic villages of Jrifia. \u00a0Nomadic households between Laayoune in the north and Dakhla in the south will also seasonally benefit from this drinking water project. \u00a0Project beneficiaries describe how about one-third of their income is spent on water (its shipment). \u00a0As their main economic activities are animal husbandry and fishing, they do not have the financial means to build the necessary clean water infrastructure. \u00a0New local associations will be created to manage this and future projects. \u00a0This drinking water project, at a cost of $380,000, would profoundly benefit Boujdour citizens.<\/p>\n![\"Celebrating](\"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/images\/stories\/boujdour%20partnerships%203.jpg\" "\\"Celebrating")
3.Income-generation opportunities for women<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"HAF](\"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/images\/stories\/boujdour%20partnerships%204.jpg\" "\\"HAF")
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