Vocational Agricultural Training in MOROCCO

_{Nawal EL HAOUARI, Directorate for Education, Research and Development
Ministry of Agriculture, Development and Sea Fisheries of Morocco}

 ^{(Frame of Nawal EL HAOUARI’s lecture after slide-show PowerPoint)}

I/ IMPORTANCE OF THE SECTOR OF AGRICULTURE IN MOROCCO :

• Rural Population : 47% of total population ;

•     Main job and income provider for rural populations : 80% of direct employment in rural areas; 40% of total employment

•     Contribution to making the national GDP : 15 to 20% of total GDP in the last 10 years.

In 50 years Moroccan agriculture has made considerable progress
   

• Diversified and modernised

• Integrated to market

• Contributes to ensuring food security

• Main job and income provider;

Developing skills and jobs (trades) in agriculture is necessary

II/ VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL TRAINING SYSTEM

 MAN AT THE CORE OF DEVELOPMENT

Missions :

• Contribution to upgrading agriculture and the rural world by supplying skilled and certified human resources ;

• Contribution to valuing and socio-professional inclusion of rural young people into active life.

 Centres provide :

• Initial Training: Specialised Technicians, Technicians, skilled workers (28 jobs)

• Apprenticeship training for rural young people (42 jobs) ; 

• Continuing Training for professionals ;

• Continuing training for MADRPM executives and officers ;

• Training young promoters to setting up their own farm business ;

• Functional literacy of rural populations ;

• Monitoring and support for inclusion of graduates.

 Technical and Vocational Agricultural Training and Education system :
   

• Specialised Technical Agricultural Institutes  (ITSA);

• 11 Technical Agricultural Institutes;

• 22 Centres for Agricultural Qualification (CQA);

• 8 agricultural lyceums (LA) of which 2 under the MNE;

• 1.500 enterprises and farms for training

• 9 regional networks (since 1999);

• Regional Councils for improvement (professionals for training-guidance);

• Local Councils for improvement (professionals for training-guidance). 

 Vocational Agricultural Training Paths :

 Vocational training alternately between School and Workplace :

A LEADING EDGE VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Fields of study :

•     Specialised Technician Level :  9 fields (4 Commercial Tech.; topography; Water management; Electro-mechanics; Poultry-raising; Business management);

•     Technician level : 5 fields (Animal husbandry; Farm mechanics, Horticulture, mixed-farming; Waters and Forests);

•     Skilled worker level : 5 fields (Mixed farming; Animal husbandry Farm mechanics, Horticulture; Poultry raising).

Vocational Training in Apprenticeship  :

ON SITE VOCATIONAL TRAINING

APPRENTICESHIP (28 fields of trade)

Animal husbandry : 8 fields

Forestry : 4 jobs

Marketing and packaging : 2 jobs

Plant Production : 10 fields

Farm mechanics, rural equipment and topography : 4 jobs.

GRADUATES :

Ever since it was created  some 70.000 graduates were trained :
  -      3.572 technical operators,
  -      7.202 technical assistants,
  -      11.5422 skilled workers,
  -      9.113 technicians,
  -      1.653 specialised technicians.
  -      34.906 specialised workers
  -      30.000 young rural apprentices
  -      2.732 HSD in agronomic sciences
Inclusion rate : 60%

III/ STRATEGIC ORIENTATIONS :

•     To diversify  training ways ;

•     To support growing sectors ;

•     To place the training system at regional level ;

•     To promote integration and self-employment ;

•     To improve the quality of training (APC) ;

•     To open it up to its environment (partnership ; international co-operation).

STRENGTHENING OF PARTNERSHIPS :

Objective : To involve other Departments, professional organisations and civil society in the effort for training and integration

Some experiences:

•     The Educational Model of French “ Maisons Familiales Rurales”.

•     SOREC (Training in new horse-related jobs ),

•     Foundation BMCE (support for development).

•     FARGE  ( support for retraining).

•     Foundation Mohamed VI Re-integration of prisoners.

•     ADS (financing micro- projects).

INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION  :

•     Project MEDA (helping upgrade the training system in apprenticeship) ;

•     Project APC/ACDI (Support to setting-up APC in order to generalise it to the whole vocational training system) ;

•     Co-operation with  France (Maisons Familiales Rurales; twinnings);

•     Co-operation with Belgium (training in apprenticeship in the  area below Massa Drâa);

•     Project ALEF /USAID (Improving quality, employability);

•     Co-operation with Andalousia (Project FORMAGRI: training of trainers, exchanges of experts’visits and  adaptation training books ;

•     PCIAAM : support to agronomic research

Thank you for your attention

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