The Development Center of the Tensift Region (CDRT) is a non-governmental organization created on April 25, 1998; it obtained public utility status in 2006. Throughout its 26 years of existence, the CDRT has been and remains an organized framework for initiatives, a space for reflection and support for regional development policies. The spirit of the values that guided the CDRT at its creation and that still persist has been: independence, transparency, a participatory approach, the promotion of culture, the conduct of studies and pilot projects.
It currently has nearly 150 members, the majority of whom are high-ranking professionals in society (academics, engineers, doctors, architects, lawyers, senior administrative officials, business leaders, students…). This diversity and versatility in its human resources, along with its openness and collaboration with regional, national, and international institutions, have been an asset and a wealth that have allowed it to adequately and pertinently address development issues in their various aspects and to carry out flagship projects in the fields of training in the region, combating poverty through socio-economic integration, environmental protection, and cultural promotion. The efforts of the CDRT were rewarded by acquiring the status of public utility in 2006 and its admission as an observer member to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change since 2010, and finally as a member of the African Development Bank-Civil Society Committee, representing the North African region from 2018 to 2020.