Grounded in Beni Mellal-Khenifra

Beni Mellal-Khenifra, Morocco

First implementation

AMSA-AI is grounded in a real territory and a clearly defined group of local governance users, led by AIDECA with institutional and regional partners.

Co-design workshop with local stakeholders

Stakeholder mobilization with elected women and civic actors

Use-case mapping for local governance and participation

AI literacy and digital safety preparation

Tool scoping around civic and procedural guidance for AMSA

Elected women engaged

Verified Morocco implementation count

Civil society, developers, and local actors

Verified civic and technical participation

Documented participants

Minimum verified direct reach

Implementation model

Listen, identify, build, train, replicate

How AMSA was used, commune by commune

On the ground

Three deep dives from Béní Mellal-Khénifra showing the move from a local concern to a concrete civic action. Photography and full write-ups are being finalized with each commune's consent.

Case study photo pending

The challenge

How AMSA helped

The outcome

Aït Ouaardi

Béní Mellal-Khénifra

Elected councillors wanted to raise gender-sensitive budget questions but lacked a quick way to anchor them in the Organic Law and feared improvising in session.

Councillors used AMSA to draft structured budget questions cited to Articles 156-168 of Organic Law 113.14, then verified them against the commune's Programme of Action.

Members reported walking into sessions with grounded, respectful questions - and asked for a dedicated Tamazight version to widen reach further.

Local actors were unsure whether an AI tool would stay within the legal frame or drift into invented claims on sensitive governance questions.

Participants stress-tested AMSA with statutory questions, watching whether it cited a legal text or clearly said when none existed.

Councillor Chrifi Fatima confirmed AMSA stays within the legal scope - citing a text when one exists and saying so plainly when it does not.

Civil society leaders needed to turn diffuse community concerns about youth spaces into a memorandum that institutions would actually read.

Using AMSA's memorandum structure, they built a one-page brief with named beneficiaries, local evidence, and recommendations scoped to commune competences.

A vague concern became a structured institutional ask - and surfaced practical feedback on response time that is feeding the next iteration.