Barcelona and the Moroccan cities of Tetuan and Tangier have strengthened their collaboration to improve the lives of the residents of the three cities. The Catalan capital has signed a memorandum with Tetuan in the fields of public space management, mobility and accessibility, civil society consolidation, digital, ecological, and energy transition, and promotion of social and solidarity economy, towards gender equality. For the second mayor responsible for social rights, culture, education, and life cycles, Maria Eugènia Gay, this connection with the Moroccan cities will «improve the lives of the citizens and continue to strengthen the connection between two cities on both sides of the Mediterranean.»
In a context marked by the exposure of cities to climate change and the need to protect the population from its consequences, cities must take care of and improve the living conditions of their citizens. In this framework, Tetuan and Barcelona launched a technical collaboration process years ago, a cooperation relationship that allowed the two cities to identify specific collaboration lines in urban and public space projects and sign a cooperation agreement in 2014. These two years. And since this intense collaboration was positive for both cities.
To continue this line, Barcelona and Tetouan signed a memorandum of understanding this week, which aims, on the one hand, to continue the cooperation program between the Local Council of Barcelona and the Tetouan Commune to promote institutional development, modernization of administration and governance, and improvement of basic service management and, on the other hand, to collaborate in technological development that will contribute to the well-being of citizens in both cities.
The second mayor, Maria Eugènia Gay, and the commissioner for citizen relations and religious diversity, Sara Belbeida, traveled to Tetuan to sign this memorandum, which will be valid for four years.
The visit was used to fulfill some cooperation projects with entities such as violence prevention in schools and also entered the project to support proximity centers in which the consortium participated in Barcelona and ICUB libraries. They also met with the Gender Equity Court (with which a direct cooperation project was created with the Local Council of Barcelona) and visited the Casa Ziouziou in Barcelona.
At the same time, the delegation from the Municipal Council consolidated collaboration with Tangier, where they met with the mayor and discussed the challenges facing the two cities and expressed the willingness to strengthen relations. Likewise, the city representatives visited the assistance and support project for the emancipation of the 100% Mamans entity (with the support of Barcelona, through the solidarity consumer entity).
Gay and Belbeida also visited the Rassif project to accompany young people in street situations, from the babies Casal Dels, in which the detection and intervention service in Barcelona collaborated, to know the child protection circuit impact of the the the the mae the the the mae the the the mam The migratory effect of the man and the connection between administration and entities.