The Moroccan government has launched a new plan to expand vocational training, aimed at enhancing professional integration and tackling unemployment, particularly among vulnerable groups and school dropouts. The plan aims to increase the number of beneficiaries from 31,000 to 100,000 annually by the end of 2025.
During a session of oral questions in the House of Representatives on Monday, June 30, 2025, Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment, and Skills, Younes Skouri, emphasized that this program is part of the government’s efforts to connect training with the job market and provide real job opportunities. The minister announced a budget allocation of 500 million dirhams to support this initiative, urging regional presidents to offer additional grants to ensure its sustainability and effectiveness.
Skouri noted that the government has decided to raise the support amount for each vocational training beneficiary from 4,000 to 5,000 dirhams, while reducing the training duration to consider beneficiaries’ social circumstances. He highlighted that this mechanism has proven effective in enrolling a broad segment of youth without certificates.
Discussing the status of the working population without certificates, the minister explained that this percentage has dropped from 68% in 2013 to 43% currently, considering continuous training as the most appropriate option for enabling this group’s economic integration. He pointed out that this initiative has faced setbacks over the past three decades, but the government has included it as part of the social dialogue agenda in the April 2024 session, and a new reform plan is set to be implemented before the upcoming political season.
