Most Moroccans In Cities
Moncef Fadili, an expert on housing for the UN said that more than half the Moroccan population lives in cities. He stated in a presentation of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), State of World Population Report that six out of ten Moroccans live in urban areas. He told that Morocco has adopted programs such as Millennium Goals Development and Free-Slum Cities program as well as the National Initiative for Human Development. These programs are meant to help insure that Moroccan citizens will have decent housing and sustainable development.
Another speaker at the presentation, Georges Georgi, said that urbanization is a result of natural growth and not just rural migration. He stated that monitoring rural migration and the idea that people are better off in the countryside is erroneous. UN Coordinator in Morocco, Mourad Wahba said that this report from Morocco, raises some issues that cannot be ignored. He asked that the world leaders help to provide Morocco with social services and infrastructures for the urban populations, especially those of women and children.
The report also gave some strategies for all the cities components to share and improve common space. It noted that environmental damage will be done modern civilization but experts recognize the potential value to long term sustainability of cities.
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