Morocco and the World Bank

Morocco's involvement with the World Bank primarily focuses on infrastructure, such as road, transport and water sanitation.

[6] This will mark the seventh time in the organization's history that their annual meetings will not be held in Washington, D.C.[7] The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a component of the World Bank, has helped Morocco build infrastructure in the agricultural sector, utilizing a public-private partnership (PPP).

[5] This program is being implemented as a response to the ways the First Education Development Policy Loan project that was approved in June 2009 and closed in late May of 2011.

This program achieved success largely based on metrics like primary school access, which reached over 96% availability by the year 2014.

A study revealed that nearly 75% of fourth grade students in Morocco did not reach even the lowest standard of the 4 benchmarks on international tests in 2011.

[14] There is a geographical gap in the enrollment, as 33% of urban youth were unenrolled in primary school, compared to nearly 80% of rural children.

[16] To increase the quality of preschools in Morocco, the second goal is implementing a number of in-training personal and professional development programs as well.

[16] This will be measured by the number of performance based employment contracts given out at the regional and provincial level itself by the time of the projects ending in 2024.

[12] Supporting the economic inclusion of youth This was a 55 million US dollar project financed by the World Bank, that was approved on May 10 of 2019 and will conclude in late September 2024.

The World Bank will also attempt to create services to improve the social skills of the young people of Morocco that they expect have positive impacts across sectors.

[19] Financial Inclusion and Digital Economy DPF This project costs over 685 million US dollars and aims to create a more equitable private sector, and spur private investing by more Moroccans by creating a new national economic model that emphasizes human capital, conscientious governance, encourages quality youth employment, addresses climate change, and fosters social cohesion.