The study noted that programmes to promote youth and graduate employment (such as the insertion programme, the reinsertion programme and the incentive programme, which promised to exceed the 100,000 annual insertion ceiling) have not helped to reduce the youth unemployment rate.
The unemployment rate fell from 12.8% in 2021 to 11.2% in the second quarter of 2022 and remains high among young people aged 15 to 24 (30.2%), graduates (18%) and women (15.1%), according to the High Commission for Planning (HCP). This increase is explained by the impact that the pandemic had on the economy in Morocco where 432 thousand jobs were lost during this period.
The note from the Arab Reform Initiative group stresses, however, that the rise in unemployment among young people is not only circumstantial and that the use of precarious and unsustainable employment programmes does not meet the expectations of this category of the population, which does not benefit from an efficient and sustainable social security.
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