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MCC Morocco Workforce Development Activity Interim Report
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MCC Morocco Workforce Development Activity Interim Report

Final Report for Employment sub-Activities
Published: May 20, 2025
Publisher: Mathematica
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Associated Project

Morocco: Workforce Development Activity for Employability Project

Time frame: 2018 - 2028

Prepared for:

Millennium Challenge Corporation

Key Findings

  • The Results-Based Financing for Employment sub-Activity demonstrated a potentially effective model for providing job placement services, primarily nontechnical training and job search assistance, to youth in Morocco, including women and individuals without a high school diploma.
  • However, employment rates were lower for women and youth without a high school diploma compared to other participants and varied greatly across program providers.
  • Some small-scale programs funded by the Government of Morocco have adopted a results-based financing model based on the experience of and learnings from this program funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
  • The Labor Market Observatory sub-Activity funded the creation of an impressive online integrated data platform called marssad.ma that has the potential to improve the availability of labor market data and meet the needs of a variety of users; however, it had not yet been publicly launched as of May 2024 due to ongoing unresolved decisions over ownership and management. 

In 2015, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco signed a five-year, $450 million Employability and Land Compact that entered into force in 2017. The Compact, which the Millennium Challenge Account-Morocco (MCA-Morocco) implemented from June 2017 to March 2023, included a $107 million Workforce Development Activity (WDA). The WDA aimed to increase the employability and employment rates of Moroccans by improving the quality and relevance of workforce development programs in response to private sector needs and sought to achieve this objective through four sub-Activities: (1) Private Sector-Driven Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), also known as the Charaka Fund; (2) Operationalizing TVET Sector Policy Reform; (3) Results-Based Financing (RBF) for Employment; and (4) Labor Market Observatory (l’Observatoire National du Marché du Travail; ONMT). MCC contracted with Mathematica to conduct an independent mixed-methods evaluation of the WDA. This report presents Mathematica’s findings from a performance evaluation of the two employment sub-Activities (3 and 4): RBF for Employment and the ONMT. This report includes findings from the mixed methods study, which describes the implementation of the two sub-Activities and perceptions of sustainability, and documents the labor market outcomes of participants in the RBF program.

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