Country profile: Morocco
The application of the Water Resilience Tracker Questionnaire to ten national planning documents in Morocco reveals 23 resilience leverage points across a genuinely ambitious national planning framework.
Climate change is fundamentally reshaping Morocco's water landscape. A country that has long managed structural water scarcity through major hydraulic infrastructure investment now confronts a qualitatively new challenge: accelerating hydrological uncertainty that renders traditional planning paradigms, based on historical averages and predictable seasonal cycles, increasingly inadequate.
In this context, ensuring that Morocco's national climate and development planning frameworks systematically integrate water resilience considerations is not a technical exercise, it is a prerequisite for the credibility and achievability of the country's climate commitments.
This report presents the findings of the Water Resilience Tracker (WRT) national diagnostic assessment for Morocco: a structured, evidence-based evaluation of how ten key national strategy documents address water as a risk, a sector, and a cross-cutting resource for climate adaptation and mitigation. The diagnostic also evaluates the extent to which international best practices around cross-sectoral integration, monitoring, and gender inclusion are reflected and operationalized in Morocco’s planning context.