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Moroccan government's Villes sans bidonvilles
(Cities without Slums) programme, part of a
far-reaching National Initiative for Human
Development (INDH), aimed at reducing social
disparities and fighting exclusion, was the focus of
the sixth Public Policy Forum of the Cities
Alliance, which held in Marrakech from November 7 to
9, 2005.
More than 300 national, regional and international
participants from 20 different countries attended
the Forum, which was jointly hosted by the
Moroccan Ministry
of Housing and Urban Development, the City of
Marrakech, the NENA Urban Forum,
Holding Al Omrane
and the Cities Alliance.
The Forum was opened with keynote speeches by the
Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Toufiq
Hjira, the Minister of Territorial Management, Water
and the Environment, Mohamed El Yazghi, supported by
messages from the Mayor of Marrakech, Omar Jazouli,
the European Union Representative, Bruno de Thomas,
Cities Alliance Policy Advisory Board member and
Jordanian Minister of Public Works and Housing,
Yousef Hiasat, and Cities Alliance programme
manager, Mark Hildebrand. Six plenary sessions were
interspersed with site visits to various locations
in Marrakech to enable participants to observe the
implementation of the programme.
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