MENA

Morocco - Promoting Youth Emplyoment in Rural Areas

Region MENA
Start 2019
Sector Public Sector, Private Sector
CLI Project Manager Elisabeth Kuehn, Douglas F. Williamson

Project context

CLI collaborates with the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to develop multi-stakeholder collaboration and collective leadership skills for local administrations engaged in promoting youth employment in rural areas of Morocco. The National Agency for the Development of Employment and Competencies (Agence nationale de promotion de l’emploi et des compétences ANAPEC) needs to collaborate with a variety of local, regional and national stakeholders to harmonize efforts, identify synergies, and ensure results on the ground. CLI offers a series of capacity building trainings for different stakeholder representatives on the national, regional, and local levels.

Project Facts
Project time

2019-2023

Stakeholders

Representatives from the two regions Benimellal-Khenifra and Fes-Meknes, as well as from provinces within these regions.

Outcome

Joint financing of measures approved between local and regional administration; scaling up of successful pilot
to 4 other provinces, including one in 1 new region; communication structures across local, regional, and national level; official endorsement of collaborative approach by the partner Ministry; maintenance and qualitative deepening of successful
collaboration in pilot regions; ownership of the project measures by involved stakeholders across all levels; attested sustainability of approach by partners; improvement of the social situation of young people and impact on the community.

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