Souss Massa Associative & Entrepreneurship Birth of the Entrelles Maroc Network (R.E.M). Meryem El Ouafi president.

ENTRELLES is an association which brings together women business leaders from the Souss Massa region. Initially, it is the result of the Entre Elles Régions training offered by GIZ in partnership with the regional investment centers, ANPME and the cabinet trait d’union. The association currently has 120 members in Souss Massa. The ENTRELLES association represents a conducive space for reflection on the economic integration of women and the promotion of female entrepreneurship in the SOUSS MASSA region.

ENTRELLES is an association which brings together women business leaders from the Souss Massa region. Initially, it is the result of the Entre Elles Régions training offered by GIZ in partnership with the regional investment centers, ANPME and the cabinet trait d’union. The association currently has 120 members in Souss Massa. The ENTRELLES association represents a space conducive to reflection on the economic integration of women and the promotion of female entrepreneurship in the SOUSS MASSA region. 
  
  
Entrelles’ objective is to bring together all women business leaders in the region around a single structure, capable of:

• – Defend the interests of its members in order to help them sustain their businesses.
• – Assume the role of supervision, assistance, awareness, training, promotion, popularization of concepts, leadership, and intermediary.
• – Encourage the creation in the region of businesses run by women,
• – Become the single point of contact for public and private authorities in the region.
• – Support the process of implementing regionalization,
• – Participate in the promotion of women as economic players and creators of wealth,
• – Contribute to legislation and regulations…

  
To boost the actions of all the associations created at the country level, a Constitutive General Assembly of the Entrelles Morocco Network was held on Tuesday, August 30, 2016. The aim of the network is to promote female entrepreneurship at the level of all regions of Morocco. The assembly saw the presence of the presidents of the five regions which constitute the network office, alongside several national and international institutions from the public and private sector. 
  
   Building on their successful experiences in their respective regions, the Entrelles Régions Associations aspire to further broaden their horizons and give new impetus to their actions, by constituting a network bringing together the Entrelles Entrepreneures associations from the different regions of Morocco in order to produce actions aimed at women entrepreneurs, project leaders, small businesses, cooperatives and women who work in the informal sector. 
   The network will allow women to believe in themselves, have greater access to information, gain visibility, access financing and benefit from targeted training plans adapted to their needs. 
The Entrelles Maroc Network will thus act in the same directions and orientations of the Entrelles associations, relying on a national dimension which will make it possible to open up internationally in order to act locally and globally at the same time and contribute forcefully to the development of female entrepreneurship in our country. 
After recalling the provisions and presentation of the ENTRELLES Morocco Network project, the statutes were voted on and the president and members of the network office were elected. 

• Ms. Meryam El Ouafi, President of the Entrelles Souss Massa Association as President of the Entrelles Morocco Network,
• Ms. Fasly Aziza president of the Entrelles Doukkala Abda association as Vice president of the network,
• Ms. Malika Malehpresident of the Entrelles du Grand Casablanca association as General Secretary of the network,
• Ms. Rachida Yacoubi president of the Entelles Rabat – kénitra association as Treasurer of the network,
• Ms. Karima Moukharij President of the Entrelles Drâa Tafilalet association as Deputy Treasurer of the Entrelles Morocco Network.

  
Were present at the meeting, a number of partners who came to express their support and their support for the new network formed. Cherradi, the Delegate of Trade and Industry, Investment and the Digital Economy, Nazih Khalil, Director of the Souss Massa Regional Investment Center (CRI), Mr. Joundy and Mrs. Bennani, president and vice-president of the CGEM Souss Massa, all expressed their willingness to collaborate with the Entrelles Maroc network and support it in its future actions. 
  
Madame the Consul General of Spain, the vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services, representatives of GIZ, APEFE, the EITIA Consulting group, the Souss Massa Initiative Association as well as the Banque Populaire all held during the general assembly constituent of the network to relate their satisfaction at seeing the evolution experienced by the Entrelles associations of the regions and applaud this approach of union which can only strengthen their positions as an active and dynamic actor for the promotion of female entrepreneurship. 
  
The assembly was also an opportunity to pay tribute to the partners who contributed to the creation and development of the Entrelles associations. The CRI, GIZ, Maroc PME and Cabinet Trait d’Union were awarded trophies as recognition and thanks for the support and effort deployed since the creation of the Entrelles Associations. 
  
WHY AN ENTRELLES MOROCCO NETWORK

• Because female entrepreneurship is a national issue
• For a new grouping model resulting from advanced regionalization
• To make female entrepreneurship a real source of wealth creation
• To break with the logic of isolation of the local actor
• Encourage exchanges of experiences, develop solidarity, cross networks and practices
• Strengthen the national reputation of Entrelles associations and acquire an international scope

OBJECTIVES OF THE ENTRELLES MAROC NETWORK

• Defend the common interests of ENTRELLES regional associations.
• Encourage and support businesses led by women, and promote their image in Morocco and internationally.
• Develop a national strategy to promote female entrepreneurship in Morocco.
• Represent and defend, within any national or international business association, and with any private or public organization, the interests of its members and, to this end, to propose all measures likely to better stimulate their activity, without prejudice to the general interest.
• Promote and organize, within the framework of its professional skills, all activities tending to enable its members to acquire mastery of techniques implemented in the fields of their respective activities.
• Encourage and develop scientific research, studies and innovation in the field of female entrepreneurship.
• Support the process of advanced regionalization by adopting a proactive approach to promoting female entrepreneurship in the different regions of Morocco.
• Defend parity and work to promote the gender approach in social, economic areas and the principles of corporate social responsibility CSR.

It should be remembered that Entrelles Souss Massa organized the 1st edition of the Salon de la Femme Entrepreneure, in Agadir, in the Chamber of Commerce of Industry and Services, placed around the theme: « Women and regions ». An exhibition and sharing event, the show aimed to shed light on the contribution of women to economic and socio-political life as well as the role they can play in the implementation of advanced regionalization, specify the organizers. 
  
For the president of the Entrelles Souss-Massa Association, Meryam El Ouafi, this is the opportunity to “integrate women into the development process will increase the region’s GDP by 15%”…
It should also be remembered that the Entrelles Souss-Massa Association had implemented a strategy called « AmalWay » with the main objective of promoting female entrepreneurship and the creation of 3,000 direct and indirect jobs by 2020, through the women’s enterprise of Souss-Massa. It is in this context that a tribute was paid to six women representing the two prefectures and four provinces making up the Souss-Massa region who marked the year 2015 with their entrepreneurial actions.
  
The “AmalWay” 2015 2020 strategy is intended to be a strategy based on 3 objectives
strategic objectives, 8 intermediate objectives and 34 operational objectives. The Entrelles 2015-2020 strategy must respond to all these issues by helping FCEs to develop their skills as well as their businesses and raise awareness among as many women in the region as possible about female entrepreneurship. 

   For the president of the Entre Elles Association, female  entrepreneurship  is  both  a  lever  for  competitiveness  and  employment,  since  it  allows  both  access  to  employment  and  employment. develop the territories.  Hence  the  need  to  encourage  future  women  entrepreneurs  through  training  and  financing  programs  adequate  to  the  specificities  of  the  region.  It’s  precisely  these  topics  that  were  addressed  during  the  scheduled  panels. A great success for this first edition resulting from a good, purely feminine initiative. 
Bravo ladies and very good luck.