Fatima Marouan
Fatima Marouan (born in 1952) s a Moroccan physician, business executive and politician. From 2002 to 2005, she headed the Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases unit of the Ibn Rochd University Hospital in Casablanca. More recently, under the government of Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, from October 2013 to April 2017 she has served as Minister of Crafts and Social Economy as a member of the National Rally of Independents.
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edit- Today, this institution is no longer able to fulfill these roles efficiently, leaving an organizational void that has had a certain negative impact on the exercise of craft activities and on the attractiveness of the products and services offered to consumers. The text therefore aims to generate certain positive externalities for the future of the sector.
- This sector has just been attached to the Ministry of Crafts and we have discovered a promising sector. Indeed, the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) sector, although recently institutionalized, plays an essential role in the socio-economic chessboard of the country, particularly through cooperatives, associations and mutual societies that work as close as possible to the population concerned.
- The Government has therefore taken charge, through a proactive approach, of the promotion and structuring of this sector. The Ministry has operationalized strategies articulated around several axes: reform of the legal framework, upgrading and strengthening the capacities of ESS organizations, support for marketing, establishment of partnerships with the various stakeholders for better coordination of actions and convergence of programs dedicated to the sector. Thus, on the legislative side, the Ministry presented Bill No. 12.112 relating to cooperatives which was adopted by Parliament on July 16 and 2 bills relating to fair trade and the social economy which are currently being studied.
- Indeed, we believe that the implementation of this text is likely to increase directly and indirectly, through induced effects, the share of the craft sector in the national economy. The structuring of the sector and the recognition of qualifications will undoubtedly facilitate the emergence of a new climate, more conducive to the exercise of craft activities. This will generate, we hope, significant gains in productivity and attractiveness for the Moroccan craft product.
- The aim is to provide the Moroccan cooperative movement with a legal framework that is both flexible and coherent.
