The World Bank announced a new US$500 million program in support of Morocco’s goals of expanding access to quality pre-primary education, significantly enhancing teachers’ skills and competencies, and strengthening the governance of the sector.

Despite universal primary access, in 2017, only 50 percent of children aged 4 and 5 attended pre-primary education. As a condition for learning preparedness, access to quality Early Childhood Education (ECE) is a major focus of the current program. Through targeted interventions, the program aims to establish an enabling environment for quality ECE service delivery, based on the government’s program to universalize pre-primary education by 2027.
Moreover, the program will support an ambitious reform agenda to ensure that teachers are adequately trained and supported throughout their career, which will lead to a stronger teaching profession, a crucial element to improve learning outcomes.  

The program will help strengthen the education sector’s management capabilities and accountability along the education service delivery chain. As such, it will promote a stronger focus on results through the implementation of performance contracts by the regional and provincial directorates affiliated to the ministry, including the Regional Education Academies (AREFs). The Program will also support adaptive, and locally-tailored approaches to improve school-level delivery. Along with the performance contracts, a monitoring and evaluation mechanism will track progress toward milestones identified within the Program.

The current program is based on the government’s vision to lay the foundations of a “new Moroccan school”, one in which children are ready to learn, teachers are better prepared to teach, and the system as a whole is more efficient at supporting the teaching and learning processes. The current Program builds on the regionalization agenda to give education service providers, including AREFS, Provincial Directorates and schools, greater capacity and accountability to manage the challenge of significantly improving learning outcomes for all Moroccan children.

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