Three million Moroccans benefited from 12,000 INDH projects in 2005-2007

Three million Moroccans benefited from the 12,137 National Initiative for Human Development (INDH) projects carried out in the 2005-2007 period, State Secretary for Interior, Mohamed Saad Hassar, said on Monday.

In a report on the progress of the projects presented before parliament, he noted that the global cost of these projects stood at MAD 6.4Bn (USD 824Mn), in which INDH chipped in USD 489Mn.

Some 5,000 projects, which benefited some 1.3 million people, were programmed in 2007, he added, noting that these projects touch mainly rural area (1,570 projects). The rest of the programs break down as follows: urban program (850 projects), anti-precariousness program (405 projects), and the transversal program (1,959 projects).

Morocco has earmarked USD 382Mn to achieve the 2008 INDH action plan, which includes 5,172 projects, 4,924 projects in the urban areas and 262 projects in the rural areas.

Announced by king Mohammed VI in May 18, 2005, the large-scale social initiative is designed to alleviate poverty, vulnerability, marginalization and social exclusion by providing basic infrastructure to millions from adequate housing and drinking water to health care and education.