Textiles: Three ecosystems for 44,000 new jobs

As part of the 2014-2020 Industrial Acceleration Plan, the textile sector is organizing itself into ecosystems. The goal: to create 100,000 jobs in total.

The first three textile sector ecosystems, initiated as part of the Industrial Acceleration Plan (2014-2020) and which will contribute, on their own, to creating 44,000 new jobs by 2020, or 46% by that time, were launched on Tuesday in Rabat.

These three ecosystems concern the Denim, Fast Fashion and industrial distributors of national brands sectors. They should generate an additional turnover of 6.3 billion dirhams (MMDH) in the sector and complete 57 investment projects.

The creation of ecosystems in these sectors will promote the emergence of a competitive and innovative textile upstream, for better sector integration and gains in reactivity and logistical costs in the procurement of order givers.

To support the deployment of these ecosystems, four performance contracts have been signed between the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Moroccan Association of Textile and Clothing Industries (AMITH). Under these contracts, the State undertakes to provide the necessary support and assistance to companies in industrial ecosystems. This involves aid to promote the emergence of national locomotives, stimulate innovation, mobilize expertise, encourage investment and facilitate access to new export markets.

For their part, professionals undertake to achieve the objectives set, namely the creation of jobs and the achievement of added value and investment projects.

THREE OTHER ECOSYSTEMS UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Speaking on this occasion, the Minister of Industry, Trade, Investment and Digital Economy, Moulay Hafid Elalamy, emphasized the importance of the ecosystem approach as a tool for modernizing and integrating the textile and clothing sector.

More organized, more competitive, more innovative and more efficient sectors will emerge thanks to the structuring of the sector into high-performing ecosystems, stressed Mr. Elalamy. He also welcomed the constant mobilization and commitment of AMITH alongside the ministry's teams in the upstream work done to identify and structure the launched ecosystems.

Three other ecosystems will be added to the first three launched on Tuesday. The six textile ecosystems should create 100,000 jobs and generate a turnover of 9 billion DH.
The textile sector employs 175,000 people, or 30% of total industrial employment and accounts for 25 to 30% of national industrial exports.

Recently, a note from the High Commission for Planning pointed out that the sector's exports were increasing but job creation has stagnated since 2012. A "flaw" that will be filled with the creation of ecosystems.

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Published on February 25, 2015.

Posted online on March 17, 2015.