Participatory Governance

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Civil Society Intermediary Support Organizations

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In support of the Government of Morocco’s efforts to increase civic participation, USAID is providing direct grants to five civil society organizations (CSOs) to strengthen their capacities and become intermediary support organizations (ISOs) that help develop the skills of their entire network and effectively engage with the government on behalf of citizens. The five selected ISOs are long-standing local organizations that are embedded in their communities and work to advocate for citizens’ priorities and interests.

Closing Morocco's Gender Gap

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USAID addresses gender as a cross-cutting theme, focusing on women’s political and socio-economic inclusion. Nearly every USAID/Morocco activity addresses gender, and most include significant gender components.

Inclusive Civic Education

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USAID conducted a review of Moroccan election processes and results, which indicated that civic engagement remains an unfulfilled priority.

Economic Growth

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Academy for Safe Truck Driving (ACCES)

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USAID supports youth employability while addressing road safety challenges through the establishment of the Academy for Safe Truck Driving (ACCES). ACCES aims to help narrow the skill shortage in the road transport sector by providing courses on safe and defensive driving, fuel efficiency for various types of trucks and buses, and soft skills, such as professional communication and customer service.

Bridging The Skills Gap Through Virtual Reality

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Solving structural and youth unemployment requires innovative and diverse solutions. USAID seeks to increase employability by providing innovative and affordable learning solutions for skills development, in order to help reduce youth unemployment, promote entrepreneurship, and potentially increase industrial productivity.

Closing Morocco's Gender Gap

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USAID addresses gender as a cross-cutting theme, focusing on women’s political and socio-economic inclusion. Nearly every USAID/Morocco activity addresses gender, and most include significant gender components.

Cooperative Financing Program

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Cooperatives play a vital role in Morocco’s national economic and social development and the fight against poverty. Tragically, cooperatives have suffered significantly from the negative economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Most of Morocco’s 28,000 cooperatives and micro-initiatives were forced to halt or slow their income-generating activities, affecting close to 600,000 members and employees who directly benefit from cooperative activities. As a result, there is an urgent need for economic relief interventions.

H2O Maghreb Partnership

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Recognizing water as a national security issue for Morocco and its neighbors in the region, USAID is using innovation and technology to establish state of the art and sustainable water management practices in Morocco.

Inclusive Socio-Economic Development in Beni Mellal-Khenifra

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To support the region in identifying opportunities and the best approaches to ensure inclusive socioeconomic development in Beni Mellal-Khenifra, USAID consulted with stakeholders in the region using a systems approach and convened a group of community, government, academia, and private sector representatives from across the region for co-creation workshops.

Interactive Digital Center

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Solving structural and youth unemployment requires innovative and diverse solutions. USAID seeks to increase employability by providing cutting-edge, affordable learning solutions for skills development to help reduce youth unemployment, promote entrepreneurship, and potentially increase industrial productivity.

Morocco Market Spotlight

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For over 60 years, the United States has been a trusted partner to Morocco, supporting its amazing story of development and economic growth. USAID/Morocco is essential to this long-standing partnership and collaborates with a wide range of companies and investors to achieve the mutual objective of sustained prosperity and growth.

PEER In Morocco

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USAID supports locally led research in Morocco. Eight PEER grants have been awarded to Moroccan researchers who partner with a U.S. government-supported researcher to address global development challenges.

Education

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Bridging The Skills Gap Through Virtual Reality

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Solving structural and youth unemployment requires innovative and diverse solutions. USAID seeks to increase employability by providing innovative and affordable learning solutions for skills development, in order to help reduce youth unemployment, promote entrepreneurship, and potentially increase industrial productivity.

Closing Morocco's Gender Gap

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USAID addresses gender as a cross-cutting theme, focusing on women’s political and socio-economic inclusion. Nearly every USAID/Morocco activity addresses gender, and most include significant gender components.

Enhanced Educational Attainment for Children at the Primary Level

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A lack of education perpetuates poverty, limits job opportunities, and strains the overall social support system. USAID is working in close partnership with the Ministry of Education to support their ambitious reform efforts by developing an evidence base to design activities that improve reading skills of Moroccan primary school students.

Higher Education Partnership - Morocco

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In 2019, USAID began partnering with the Moroccan Ministry of Edcuation (MOE) to launch the five-year Higher Education Partnership for Morocco program, which aims to assist the MOE in the implementation of a then-newly adopted law designed to improve pre-service training.

Inclusive Education Teacher Training Activity

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USAID signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Education,Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research, the Lalla Asmaa Foundation, and Mohammed V University, establishing a framework for collaboration to promote deaf education in Morocco using MSL and Modern Standard Arabic. This MOU also lays the groundwork for the formal legal recognition of MSL as a language of instruction in Morocco. The four-year Morocco Inclusive Education Teacher Training Activity, facilitated through the MOU, will strengthen deaf education in primary schools by providing MSL and specialized deaf education training to teachers.

Reading for Success - National Program for Reading

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In 2015, USAID partnered with the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research to launch the 30-month Reading for Success – Small-Scale Experimentation activity to develop and test the most effective approaches to strengthen students’ Arabic reading skills in targeted primary schools.

Community Resilience

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Community Oriented Policing Activity

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Community policing is both a philosophy and an organizational strategy that emphasizes partnership and collaboration between police and the communities that they serve with the objective of identifying and jointly responding to problems of crime, disorder, and fear of victimization. USAID supports the Kingdom of Morocco’s reform efforts through a community policing pilot project in designated marginalized neighborhoods in Tangier and Tetouan.

Dakira

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The USAID Dakira Program, implemented by the High Atlas Foundation and its local partners, aims to collaboratively develop and pioneer a unique participatory approach to the educational preservation of Morocco’s multicultural history. The program encourages local communities to capture, preserve, and transmit their collective memories so that they are better equipped to take ownership of the revitalization of their own histories. This introspective, experience-sharing approach among local participants maximizes relationship building, leading to collective actions that improve livelihoods and a deepened discovery of Morocco’s multicultural identity.

Favorable Opportunities To Reinforce Self-Advancement For Today’s Youth (FORSATY)

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USAID believes that all youth have the power to become full-fledged citizens in their neighborhoods and cities. The FORSATY activity works in nine marginalized neighborhoods in the north of Morocco, where the pull of legitimate institutions are weak and extremist recruitment cells are active.