To Understand Sector Needs: A Job and Training Observatory Coming Soon to Morocco
17 July 2012
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Minister of Employment and Vocational Training, Abdelouahed Souhail, announced, on the sidelines of a regional conference on employment held in Cairo, the creation of a Job and Training Observatory to develop adapted public policies in terms of employment in Morocco where 81% of the unemployed are young people.
This Observatory will be a scientific tool that will provide the government, among other things, with relevant information allowing it to have a better understanding of employment potential. By promoting the adjustment of training to employment, it will also contribute to the improvement and above all the increase of national capacity in the design and implementation of an employment policy. In collaboration with the International Labour Office (ILO) and in cooperation with the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM), trade unions and the High Commission for Planning (HCP), the Observatory will make available to all those concerned by the issue various data and analyses that may be useful to them.
The creation of this Observatory is part of the government declaration which plans to reduce the unemployment rate to 8% by 2016. It should be noted that the activity rate of young people in Morocco is 47.4% with an unemployment rate that reached 17.9% in 2011 for 15-24 year-olds and 12% for 25-34 year-olds. Of the 26,204 budget positions planned in the civil service under the 2012 Finance Act, competitions for 10,133 positions have already been launched, according to data provided by the ministry responsible for civil service and administrative modernization, which has therefore launched an electronic site containing data relating to these competitions. Allowing access to information and data relating to the recruitment procedure by competition in the civil service, local authorities and public institutions, it also provides interested parties with salary components, provisions of the general statute in addition to special statutes. Future candidates also have a section where they can ask all their questions in order to better understand the civil service.
Myriem Cherkaoui.
Aujourdhui.ma
Published July 10, 2012.
Posted online July 17, 2012.
This Observatory will be a scientific tool that will provide the government, among other things, with relevant information allowing it to have a better understanding of employment potential. By promoting the adjustment of training to employment, it will also contribute to the improvement and above all the increase of national capacity in the design and implementation of an employment policy. In collaboration with the International Labour Office (ILO) and in cooperation with the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM), trade unions and the High Commission for Planning (HCP), the Observatory will make available to all those concerned by the issue various data and analyses that may be useful to them.
The creation of this Observatory is part of the government declaration which plans to reduce the unemployment rate to 8% by 2016. It should be noted that the activity rate of young people in Morocco is 47.4% with an unemployment rate that reached 17.9% in 2011 for 15-24 year-olds and 12% for 25-34 year-olds. Of the 26,204 budget positions planned in the civil service under the 2012 Finance Act, competitions for 10,133 positions have already been launched, according to data provided by the ministry responsible for civil service and administrative modernization, which has therefore launched an electronic site containing data relating to these competitions. Allowing access to information and data relating to the recruitment procedure by competition in the civil service, local authorities and public institutions, it also provides interested parties with salary components, provisions of the general statute in addition to special statutes. Future candidates also have a section where they can ask all their questions in order to better understand the civil service.
Myriem Cherkaoui.
Aujourdhui.ma
Published July 10, 2012.
Posted online July 17, 2012.
