The National Human Rights Council (CNDH), in partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation (KAS), will organize a conference to launch the project on the "Effectiveness of the right to health in Morocco: Towards a health system based on a human rights approach”. This conference will be held on Wednesday, October 14, 2020, from 9 am at the headquarters of the CNDH.

This project is part of the exercise of the CNDH powers as a national institution for the prevention, protection, and promotion of human rights, given the multiple dysfunctions that weigh on the capacity of the Moroccan health system to guarantee the right of access to health care for all. This project is also launched in perspective to capitalize on lessons learned from the health crisis caused by the pandemic (Covid-19).

This project provides an opportunity to all stakeholders as well as national and international partners to debate and exchange on ways to reform the Moroccan health system, in the light of difficulties hindering access to the right to health.

It also aims to advocate for an integrated, transversal, inclusive, and convergent national health strategy. This later would be able to guarantee the right to health to all and address social and territorial inequalities that hinder the enjoyment of this right by all.

Health Regulators, the network of NGOs working on health, and trade unions will participate in this conference.

The program of this event will schedule two panels on the exploration of ways to reform and improve the effectiveness of the right to health. It will be concluded with a Synthesis and presentation of the program of the regional debate.

This collective debate will culminate in a final report, which will provide a roadmap for a comprehensive reform of the health system in post-Covid Morocco.

Ms. Amina Bouayach, CNDH Chairperson, Mr. Khalid Ait Taleb, Minister of Health, Ms. Maryam Bigdeli, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Morocco, and Mr. Steffen Kruger, Director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation will take part in the inaugural session of this event.

This event will be live on the CNDH facebook page.