Themed "Promoting good governance of regional public bodies: the example of CAFRAD", this meeting, which brought together representatives of the Moroccan authorities, the private sector and national partner institutions, enabled to discuss, in this new context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the new challenges facing regional public bodies in Africa, said the AfDB in a press release.

During this seminar, which is part of a series of activities financed by a grant of US $ 670,000 from the AfDB, through its Middle-Income Countries Technical Assistance Fund, the talks focused on the presentation of CAFRAD's new modernization strategy, which sets its strategic repositioning in the medium and long term, added the same source.

The objectives of the Bank's support were to build the technical assistance capacities of the center and improve the quality of its training programs, the statement recalled, specifying that this operation made it possible to carry out an institutional diagnosis of CAFRAD, to develop a three-year transformation plan and to elaborate a resource mobilization strategy.

"CAFRAD plays a catalytic role in improving African governance, particularly in the current crisis context. A pivotal role that the Kingdom of Morocco has always supported", said, on this occasion, Ahmed Laamoumri, Secretary General of the Department of Administration Reform at the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Administration Reform, quoted in the press release.

"Africa is capable of counting on its own resources to develop. This does not need to be proved any more", underlined, for his part, the Director General of the AfDB for North Africa Mohamed El Azizi, emphasizing the importance of providing the continent with an increasingly strengthened governance framework to optimize its management.

"This is the priority that we are pursuing with our support to CAFRAD, for the benefit of African public institutions and, beyond that, the African populations," said El Azizi.