Morocco’s National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water is rolling out new digital solutions dedicated to investment programming and monitoring, marking a significant step in modernizing governance and management processes under the water branch’s digital transformation roadmap.
The office highlighted the need to accelerate digitalization to modernize operations and enhance management efficiency. A dedicated digital roadmap has been developed, supported by a structured portfolio of initiatives aimed at strengthening strategic and operational capabilities. These efforts are aligned with the royal vision for the water and sanitation sectors and with commitments outlined in state-signed program contracts, particularly those related to operational and financial performance.
Among the priority initiatives is investment programming and monitoring, designed to improve planning, budgeting, and the piloting of investment projects. The upcoming digital system will modernize programming and monitoring processes, strengthen budgetary control, enhance transparency and accountability, and support more effective allocation of financial resources and decision-making.
The new information system will be required to integrate major institutional and sectoral transformations currently underway. These include the creation and rollout of regional multi-service companies, evolving planning requirements in the water sector, increasing reliance on unconventional water resources such as seawater desalination, and the incorporation of operational feedback from sanitation and water distribution activities. The system will also account for the growing involvement of public and private actors in drinking water production.
The project spans three complementary dimensions. From a business perspective, it will address multi-year investment programming, budget preparation and monitoring, financial commitment management, multi-level reporting, and investment scenario simulation and analysis. On the organizational side, the focus will be on harmonizing and digitizing procedures, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and strengthening collaboration between central departments and regional entities.
The technological dimension will define the target solution architecture, ensure integration with existing information systems, establish robust data governance, enable interoperability, and secure data flows. This digital transformation is taking place within the new institutional framework established by Law 83-21 on regional multi-service companies, under which the office’s mandate now includes national drinking water supply planning, investment programming and execution for production activities, water quality control, and technical and regulatory support to public institutions and sector stakeholders.
