From Aomar Ibourk et Karim El Aynaoui
Policy Center for the New South

This paper sheds light on youth unemployment in rural areas by using the results of a survey conducted in the province of Taounate. The various analysis developed testify to the low level of qualification and participation of young people and women in active life in rural areas as well as the vulnerability to work and the low quality of the jobs held by these rural young people, particularly women.

Significant efforts have been made in Morocco in recent years to adapt the active employment programs to the conditions of young rural people with territorialized employment policies. Nevertheless, and in spite of the initiatives carried out, it is necessary to put in place targeted interventions to help rural youth, in particular the Neets (young people neither at work nor in school) who have accumulated deficits in terms of education, training and soft skills, in order to improve their employability and facilitate their transition to working life.