Launch of the Morocco-EU Institutional Twinning
17 January 2013
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The conference room of the new OFPPT premises in Sidi Maarouf held its first ceremony on Wednesday, on the occasion of the launch colloquium of the Morocco-European Union institutional twinning project. The ceremony, chaired by the Minister of Employment and Vocational Training, Abdelouahed Souhail, saw the participation of distinguished guests, including the ambassadors of the European Union and Belgium, and the representative of the French Ambassador to Morocco, as well as the delegate from Wallonia-Brussels.
The twinning project, whose contract was signed in mid-November by the director general, Larbi Bencheikh, and endorsed by the EU ambassador to Morocco, will last 18 months from December and has a budget of 891,757 euros. It will focus on strengthening institutional capacities in regionalization and developing the quality of training, within the framework of the support program for the Morocco-EU action plan, financed by the European Union and managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
The contract, signed by OFPPT, the France (GIP International) - Belgium (Walloon Office for Vocational Training and Employment - FOREM) consortium, the European Union, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, will have three specific objectives. The first priority is to decentralize by working towards a regionalization of the Office's activities, hence the call for autonomy of the regional directorates and a strengthening of territorial anchoring.
The second target, considered as an essential roadmap and on which the speakers insisted, is the improvement of the quality of training. To this end, actions such as the improvement of trainers, training engineering, the development of work-study programs, etc., will be encouraged. All these actions will then be evaluated through experimentation in a pilot establishment. The Settat building trades training school will be the platform for achieving the objectives set, namely territorial anchoring and the guarantee of training quality. Still at a crossroads a few years ago, OFPPT has since made a real breakthrough. As proof, and even if it made the audience smile on Wednesday, OFPPT, which operates with a budget of around 3 billion dirhams, does not plan to seek subsidies from the State.
Libe.ma
Published January 17, 2013.
Posted online January 17, 2013.
The twinning project, whose contract was signed in mid-November by the director general, Larbi Bencheikh, and endorsed by the EU ambassador to Morocco, will last 18 months from December and has a budget of 891,757 euros. It will focus on strengthening institutional capacities in regionalization and developing the quality of training, within the framework of the support program for the Morocco-EU action plan, financed by the European Union and managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
The contract, signed by OFPPT, the France (GIP International) - Belgium (Walloon Office for Vocational Training and Employment - FOREM) consortium, the European Union, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, will have three specific objectives. The first priority is to decentralize by working towards a regionalization of the Office's activities, hence the call for autonomy of the regional directorates and a strengthening of territorial anchoring.
The second target, considered as an essential roadmap and on which the speakers insisted, is the improvement of the quality of training. To this end, actions such as the improvement of trainers, training engineering, the development of work-study programs, etc., will be encouraged. All these actions will then be evaluated through experimentation in a pilot establishment. The Settat building trades training school will be the platform for achieving the objectives set, namely territorial anchoring and the guarantee of training quality. Still at a crossroads a few years ago, OFPPT has since made a real breakthrough. As proof, and even if it made the audience smile on Wednesday, OFPPT, which operates with a budget of around 3 billion dirhams, does not plan to seek subsidies from the State.
Libe.ma
Published January 17, 2013.
Posted online January 17, 2013.
