Le projet Drââ : un observatoire de la Province de Ouarzazate pour la transition socio-écologique, la valorisation du territoire et l’amélioration de la qualité de la vie

Abstract

International audienceDraa project aims to answer the question: how to raise the quality of the territory ofthe Province of Ouarzazate, its economy and culture, and improve the quality of lifeof its population, the crises that our societies are undergoing since the early '30Financial "and economic, social, environmental and cultural issues that arise?To do this, the Drââ project aims to develop a cooperative and participatory territorialobservatory that will consolidate indicators and useful information to stakeholders todevelop, manage and evaluate projects using diagnostic needs expressed by thepopulation of prospective scenarios agendas transition to sustainable development, inline with the main industries of the local economy.From 2013 both caINTI and ERTEMEM research teams have implemented a firstterritorial diagnosis that collected responses from 1685 people. The results of whichhave been the subject of an invited lecture at the International Seminar AUF territorialintelligence inRoscoff on May 2014. End of 2013 a complementary survey put the focuson locals actors (farmers, teachers, elected officials) in two rural communes,Ouisselsate and Iznaguen, in the south of the province of Ouarzazate.The paper will present the first results of this survey highlighting the role of commonheritage in promoting the region and involving its inhabitants quality of life, especiallywomen. It will also summarize the progress and update on the current outlook of theDraa project