Phosboucraa Foundation’s Social Development Program strengthens the quality of education and access to healthcare for disadvantaged communities throughout Morocco’s Southern regions through specialized initiatives that foster inclusion, employability and sustainable social development.
 
In social development, Phosboucraa Foundation covers four strategic areas:

• Promoting skills development and employability of youth and women
• Improving socio-economic integration
• Improving access to healthcare
• Revitalizing the communities' interactions and social fabric

We work with different partners including Microsoft, Operation Smile Morocco, AMIDEAST, Fondation Marocaine de L’Etudiant, and OFPPT on these programs. 

We believe that revitalizing Morocco’s Southern regions’ communities’ economic framework means encouraging the creation of businesses and better jobs, generating more income, and better distributing local wealth. Phosboucraa Foundation's Entrepreneurship program for small businesses is tailored to regional needs. It aims to build and enhance skills in business management, develop an awareness of available resources, and encourage the use of good business practices.
 
This includes:
•    Supporting entrepreneurship
•    Coaching and monitoring projects for sustainable success
•    Promoting innovative practices

We work with partners including Enactus Morocco, Injaz al Maghreb, Start-up Morocco, and more recently, Laayoune Moubadara, a local NGO. 
 

At Phosboucraa Foundation, we believe sports and the arts are powerful tools to engage and empower local communities. Through the Foundation’s Culture & Sports Development program, we are forming strategic partnerships and investing in socio-cultural expansion initiatives that celebrate and preserve Morocco’s Southern regions’ unique natural heritage.
 
We focus on:
•    Promoting the human and natural heritage of Morocco’s Southern regions
•    Making culture and sports levers for local community development
 
Our partners in this work include AMIDEAST, the Laayoune Sakia Al-Hamra Region, Art’Com SUP, and the Helen O’Grady Academy.
 

The evolving, highly competitive nature of today’s agriculture industry requires constant innovation to ensure sustainable practices are adopted and maintained across Morocco’s Southern regions. Phosboucraa Foundation’s Saharan Agriculture & Environment Program implements integrated economic and social development projects aimed at improving food security, creating jobs and raising income for smallholder farmers while enhancing the agricultural potential of the region’s unique ecosystem. Our program also trains youth on innovative environmentally sustainable practices that will protect the natural habitats of their local communities.

 Our work includes:
•    Promoting better agricultural practices and animal husbandry and greater respect for the environment.
•    Supporting smallholder farmers to improve their income and living conditions.
•    Developing the value chain of agricultural subsidiaries and regional products, specifically customized and adapted to the Saharan agro-ecological context.
•    Building strategic partnerships and working in the South-South Cooperation framework to increase the sustainability of Saharan agriculture and raise awareness on food security.
•    Managing natural resources including rainwater and agricultural land, including by developing bio-saline agriculture and encouraging biodiversity.

Our partners in agricultural and environmental programs include the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), the National Office of Agriculture Research (INRA), the International Youth Foundation (IYF), Cooperative Halib Sakia El Hamra, and local associations of Camel Breeders. 
 

Phosboucraa Foundation is committed to make the Southern regions of Morocco more attractive and to drive their economic growth. Its urban program offers the region an innovative project, Foum El Oued Technopole, a smart innovative city meant to respond to the challenge of sustainable territorial development. 
Promoting an urban human face development, Phosboucraa Foundation is strongly involved in leveraging the ecosystem.  The urban program includes building capacities of the local communities through training and skill development courses.

One of our partners in this area is Université Paris Sorbonne. Together, in 2017, we conducted two training sessions. The first one was in Laayoune. They were 27 beneficiaries -  including architects, local urban planners professionals from public and private sector -  who were certified in urban planning.  In Dakhla, they were 23 architect students from Morocco and France who attended our urban planning workshop on behalf of the urban  development of Dakhla region
On top of Paris Sorbonne University, we also set a partnership with Ericsson to train and initiate local communities to the concept of smart city.  Objective empower them to participate to the life of their future smart city, Foum El Oued Technopole

Phosboucraa Foundation has opened two learning centers in the Southern regions – Laayoune Learning Center (LLC), opened in 2014, and Dakhla Learning Center (DLC), opened in 2016. These centers offer multidisciplinary training for young adults and community organization and business leaders, with as a goal to boost sustainable, socioeconomic integration and development. Both centers aim to develop strong relationships with local communities and to promote the values of active citizenship. To build sustainable partnerships in the ecosystem, the Foundation works with local groups such as universities and vocational training schools, civil society organizations, and sector-based development programs.

Learning Center offerings include a number of paths that promote sustainable socioeconomic integration, development, and engagement in local communities, with a particular focus on women and youth. They include:

• Youth Skills & Talent Enhancement
• Entrepreneurship
• NGO Development
• Education
• Social & Digital Inclusion
• Side activities such as conferences and expos

Phosboucraa Foundation takes the nuances of each region in the South into account when developing initiatives in order for the centers to learn from their respective successful programs while adapting to area-specific needs.

Our major partner for the Learning Centers platform is AMIDEAST.