A/HRC/32/43/Add.1 United Nations and international partners. In 2014, Morocco received over $2 billion in official development assistance, of which 70 per cent emanated from bilateral cooperation. France was the top donor to Morocco in 2014. Other important development cooperation partners included the European Union institutions, Germany, the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America. From the official development assistance received by Morocco, 48 per cent was allocated to economic infrastructure and services, 21 per cent to social infrastructure and services and 19 per cent to education.19 50. Although the financial aid received by Morocco does not represent a significant share of its regular budget, the country encourages donors to provide their contributions through the regular budget, in conformity with the country’s objective to improve transparency, performance-based management and evaluation. In its latest report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Morocco also indicated that the close alignment of action by funding agencies with the country’s policies concerning economic, social and cultural rights, and the increased integration of aid into the country’s budgetary system, made it difficult to ascertain the specific impact of international cooperation. 20 United Nations country team 51. The 2012-2016 United Nations Development Assistance Framework was developed based on five programmatic principles: a human-rights-based approach, environmental sustainability, gender equality, capacity-building and performance-based management. It identifies five priority areas of cooperation between the United Nation system and national actors, including civil society: (a) improving the quality of education and vocational training; (b) improving health and nutrition; (c) socioeconomic development and reduction of vulnerability and inequality; (d) strengthening gender-sensitive democratic governance; and (e) environmental protection and sustainable development. The crosscutting promotion of initiatives with non-traditional partners such as labour unions, political movements and the private sector, as well as the strengthening of North-South, South-South relationships, are features of the framework. The framework was informed by the national priorities and the orientation of the Government, the Sustainable Development Goals (and previously by the Millennium Development Goals) and the country’s international human rights treaty obligations. The framework mentions that, despite progress observed recently, the coherence and coordination of the activities of various United Nations agencies, especially in the fields of justice reform and education, needs to be implemented more rigorously. World Bank Development Group 52. Under the country partnership strategy for the period 2014-2017, the World Bank Development Group has focused its support to Morocco on the country’s open governance and green growth agendas, supporting innovative multisectoral approaches to sustainable and environmentally sound development. 21 Areas of intervention include improving good governance and accountability, and providing assistance in institutional capacity-building for better management of public resources and more effective delivery of basic services, particularly within the framework of the advanced regionalization process. The promotion of “citizens’ voice and participation is integral to these efforts, as is the focus on gender and youth”.22 19 20 21 22 See https://public.tableau.com/views/OECDDACAidataglancebyrecipient_new/ Recipients?:embed=y&:display_count=yes&:showTabs=y&:toolbar=no?&:showVizHome=no. See E/C.12/MAR/4, para. 28. See World Bank Group, “Country partnership strategy for the Kingdom of Morocco for the period FY 2014-2017”. Ibid., para. 2. 15