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The partnership between the NFP Facility and Morocco was established in 2003. The Agreement focuses on three topics, which were identified as key "bottlenecks" to the national forest programme (nfp) process, which include: (i) enhancing the involvement of stakeholders in the implementation of the nfp by revitalizing participatory mechanisms and procedures; (ii) launching a national process to evaluate the IPF/IFF Proposals for Action, with the aim of integrating the most relevant for Morocco into the nfp; and (iii) developing a national system of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management to be used in monitoring and evaluating nfp implementation.

Initial priority was given to the first topic. Indeed, the structures and mechanisms established under the "Dahir de 1976" -- which provides for the participation of local populations in developing the forest economy -- were not operating well. In addition, there were no arrangements to involve the civil society at large, and the private sector in particular, in the forest debate and the existing forest related inter-ministerial structures were barely operational. The activities planned at the beginning of the Partnership's implementation however, were never actualized, mainly because the interest in the Facility support faded away against some administrative constraints and priority was given to developing the before mentioned new contractual arrangements at the local level using resources from within Morocco's forest department (the High Commission for Water, Forests and Combating Desertification).

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