Strategic Partnership-EA Espace Associatif is one of the five implementing partners and will work mainly on municipalities accountability in the outcome area 4, through capacity building actions towards CSOs and local councilors and actors to implement a culture of integrity among the targeted municipalities and to increase CSOs voice. EA, as a platform of NGOs in several regions, will count on its relays NGOs to popularize the notion of accountability of public finances and establish multi-actor regional platform for the monitoring of public policies that will also enable participation of citizens in this regard.
Espace Associatif is an NGO founded by Moroccan associations and individuals in order to contribute to the strengthening and promotion of the Moroccan associative movement for greater democraticdevelopment. It consists of more than a hundred associations active in the fields of human rights, women's rights, cultural rights,rights of the child, the rights of disabled people and sustainable development. The development program is characterized by continuous interaction with the environment and the endeavor on issues impacting the environment of associative action.
EA has endeavored since 2008 for the establishment of an association pool in specified regions and on critical issues. This intervention strategy is now to compensate for the lack of local associative dynamics. The priority topics were the environment, Economic Social and Cultural Rights and Education. Furthermore, the need for structuring, capacity building and skills of associations and their coordination werestrongly felt. The objective set by EA is to ensure mobilization (advocacy campaigns and influence), reflection and successful publicity, structure training and finally a system of compiling the experience of associative movement.
Funded by Oxfam Novib, EA launched in May 2014 a project on public finances aimed among others at stimulating thinking and building the capacity of organizations ofcivil society on the subject of taxation (taxes, taxation and distribution wealth, international actors and their roles, etc.); knowledge of the local budgets / regional and the impact of taxation on the socio-economic rights; popularize the problems so that civil society can carry out advocacy work and related to that the implementation of an advocacy plan.
EA, as a platform of associations in several regions, will count on its relays NGOs to popularize the notion of accountability of public finances and establish multi-actor regional platform for the monitoring of public policies that will also enable participation of citizens in this regard.

Espace associatif will implement the following activities:
-  Round tables and discussion meetings on the reference framework, principlesof financial governance and budget monitoring; access to information and financial governance at communal level.
- Capacity building for elected representatives, communal officials, association leaders and members of the Equality and Equal Opportunity Committee
-Elaboration ofa legal and reference framework on financial governance and budget monitoring.
- Production of awareness and communication media.
- Caravans of awareness-raising and mobilization of associations on the importance of monitoring of public finance at communal level.
- Advocacy campaigns to encourage the six targeted territorial authorities to introduce mechanisms for budget monitoring and for participation in the ranking contest of territorial authorities according to the criteria of financial governance.
- Workshops with stakeholders for the advocacy campaign for the creation of budget monitoring mechanisms according to the standards of financial governance.
- Development of operating and animation rules of financial accountability mechanism
- Monitoring index of the communal budget (core document production
- Organization of two ranking competitions of territorial authorities in conformity to the criteria of transparency and financial governance.
- Production and diffusion of two barometers on financial governance of territorial authorities
- Debate and sharing of good practices in financial governance of territorial authorities.
- Meeting of reflection onthe implementation of financial accountability mechanism at the communal level.