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The head of government, Aziz Akhannouch, chaired, Wednesday in Rabat, a working meeting devoted to the examination of the progress of the implementation of the roadmap for the employment sector, announced by the government last February, in the presence of representatives of the various ministerial departments concerned.
This meeting, which is part of a series of work sessions dedicated to monitoring the implementation of this roadmap, was an opportunity to review the various operational measures aimed at stimulating the job market, erected as a government priority. On this occasion, the Head of Government underlined the establishment of a governance system aimed at coordinating the interventions of the various departments concerned, highlighting the creation of a steering committee responsible for monitoring the roadmap, as well as a ministerial employment committee, responsible for ensuring the state of progress of the initiatives registered in this sheet.
He reported a periodic evaluation of the results of the initiatives, in order to measure their impact on the main employment indicators and to provide the necessary adjustments, he added.
Mr. Akhannouch has also reiterated his call for all stakeholders in the employment sector to mobilize more and to strengthen coordination with a view to consolidating the effectiveness of public interventions included as part of the roadmap, to which the government has allocated a budgetary envelope of almost 15 billion dirhams in order to promote employment.
For his part, the Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Enterprise, Employment and Skills, Younes Sekkouri, said, in a statement to the press after this meeting, that any act of investment must be generating stable and sufficient jobs.
The minister insisted, in this sense, on the need to “facilitate the task of any entrepreneur so that his investment project can see the light of day and reflects in the creation of job opportunities”.
He also stressed that this meeting marks the start of a series of operational meetings intended to identify concrete measures, following the circular relating to the roadmap for employment, specifying that this session was specifically devoted to the relationship between investment and employment.
“For the first time in the history of employment policies in the Kingdom, we are in a logic or each productive ministerial department is empowered,” he continued, adding that the identification of specific subjects which require concrete actions because the creation of jobs from investments does not only go through initiatives but also through authorizations and specifications. “
Mr. Sekkouri also said that this meeting also made it possible to debate the question of financing TPME, while precisely pointing the type of problem encountered by companies.
For his part, the Minister of Industry and Trade, Ryad Mezzour, highlighted the importance of the operationalization of the guidelines of the roadmap relating to the employment sector.
Qualifying this “priority” project, Mr. Mezzour noted that all government departments are strongly mobilized, with detailed measures, set objectives and periodic operational monitoring to meet the various challenges.
“It is a question of monitoring and evaluating all the measures implemented capable of creating employment in favor of young people as quickly as possible, a job that values all the opportunities offered in this direction,” he said.
