By Order of His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, the twelve regions of the Kingdom will be provided with a large platform of essential reserves. Platforms of essential reserves, infrastructure designed according to international best practices in crisis management, will enable rapid, coordinated, and safe responses during emergency situations.
By incorporating this initiative into a long-term national vision, His Majesty the King provides Morocco with a strategic tool for territorial resilience and response.
These platforms, whose implementation was ordered by the Sovereign in the wake of the Al Haouz earthquake, will help promote the national emergency infrastructure, improve the overall disaster response system, ensure faster delivery of relief and assistance to affected populations, and bolster Morocco’s resilience to various types of disasters (earthquakes, landslides, floods, and chemical, industrial, or radiological risks).
The Rabat-Salé-Kenitra region’s essential reserves platform will be built on a 20-hectare site within 12 months, with a total estimated budget of MAD 287.5. The project will mainly include the construction of four warehouses (5,000 m² each), two shelters for oversized equipment (2,500 m² each), a helipad and parking lots.
This regional platform is part of a comprehensive program, presented to His Majesty the King on this occasion, which plans for the construction of twelve platforms at a total cost of around MAD 7 billion (758 million USD), including MAD 2 billion for construction and MAD 5 billion for the purchase of products and equipment.
Mobilizing an estimated total land area of 240 ha, these platforms will house 36 warehouses, distributed according to each region’s population density and its respective risks.
The six most populated regions will each have platforms with four warehouses totaling 20,000 square meters.
The products and equipment to be stored in these areas aim to ensure, in the event of a disaster, a swift response to aid affected populations, as well as a prompt and reasonable coverage of needs in terms of rescue, aid and care, in line with His Majesty the King’s proactive Vision.
The storage of food products and medicines will be managed by specialized teams and subject to very strict rules in line with the relevant standards.
The implementation of these platforms will help to develop national emergency infrastructure, improve the overall crisis response system, ensure greater speed in delivering relief and aid to disaster victims, and strengthen Morocco’s resilience against different types of crises.
The comprehensive program to set up regional platforms of essential reserves will also provide strategic reserves to meet the needs met following the Al Haouz earthquake threefold. It will also establish a national ecosystem for the production of equipment and materials required for the immediate deployment of disaster relief operations.
These regional platforms, whose sites have been selected according to safety criteria, have been designed on the basis of an in-depth analysis of each Moroccan region’s needs in terms of the risks involved, backed by a study of best practices and international standards.
These infrastructures aim to improve the response to natural disasters, drawing inspiration from international best practices (Portugal, Spain, Italy, China).
The aim is to strengthen Morocco’s resilience to natural disasters, in accordance with the Royal vision.
