Jerusalem’s future took center stage in Rabat on Monday, as Morocco’s Bayt Mal Al-Qods Acharif Agency convened its advisory committee of experts to assess progress on its 2027-2030 action plan, the operational backbone of what officials call « Vision 2030 » for the holy city.
Chaired remotely by the agency’s acting director, Mohammed Salem Cherkaoui, the meeting reviewed ten thematic pillars that make up the roadmap: education, healthcare, housing and heritage restoration, human development, support for women, youth and children, cultural industries, management of religious endowment (waqf) properties, and trade, tourism and services. Participants examined how to align the plan’s targets with available resources and discussed strengthening monitoring and impact-assessment mechanisms, an area the agency has flagged as a priority in recent months.
According to details shared during the session, the vision rests on three structural pillars: modernized governance supported by digital transformation and stricter quality standards; diversified funding streams; and an integrated plan for Jerusalem’s social and economic sectors, which includes expanded backing for youth entrepreneurship through the agency’s « +BMAQ » platform.
Cherkaoui stressed the need for transparency and results-based financing that can be measured against concrete outcomes, noting that the plan arrives just ahead of the agency’s 30th anniversary of fieldwork in Jerusalem. The roadmap had previously been presented to the agency’s partners in Jerusalem and Ramallah under the banner « sustainability in planning and action. »
Established in 1998, the Bayt Mal Al-Qods Acharif Agency serves as the operational arm of the Al-Quds Committee, the intergovernmental body King Mohammed VI has chaired since 1979 to coordinate support from across the Islamic world for Jerusalem amid Israeli policies that Rabat and its partners describe as efforts to alter the city’s demographic and religious character. Through this sustained institutional effort, Morocco continues to position itself as a mediator and guardian of Jerusalem’s special status, a role widely regarded by international partners as a stabilizing contribution to one of the region’s most sensitive files.