2024-08-03 14:32:47
Speaking at the first edition of the “National Industry Day”, Mr. Sekkouri stressed that industry, as a strategic project of the national economy, is a major job-creating sector and a catalyst for productive investment.
Indeed, structural transformations in countries that have made quantitative and qualitative leaps have been made through industry, the minister argued, explaining that through investment in industry, job creation multiplies, “unlike other services where job creation remains concentrated on the job created itself which does not necessarily create others.”
As for the issue of human resources considered to be of major importance, Mr. Sekkouri said that this involves, among other things, vocational training. “Today, we have a very developed vocational training ecosystem in Morocco, but we also have significant pressure on human resources which is explained by the need of an industrialized country,” he added.
According to him, the equation of supply and demand is increasingly difficult and is no longer limited to the national and domestic level but is also subject to migratory pressure from the workforce.
In terms of vocational training, he maintained, “we have a champion operator which is the OFPPT, in addition to a significant number of establishments”, considering that the involvement with the Ministry of Industry is therefore important, either through a public offer or offers in delegated management.
Mr. Sekkouri, in this regard, reiterated his Department’s commitment to deploying more efforts to make these institutes with delegated management fully functioning establishments which, through a partnership developed with professionals, enable better targeting of training efforts.
He also announced the creation of an Employment and Skills Observatory, based on artificial intelligence, which includes all the job and skills nomenclatures of the various stakeholders such as OFPPT and ANAPEC with the aim of creating an interactive base in terms of job developments.
For her part, the Minister of Solidarity, Social Integration and Family, Awatif Hayar, highlighted the different segments of the national industry requiring female skills, citing in this sense the fields of engineering and technologies whose Moroccan female potential is ranked at the world level.
She also highlighted a second segment relating to the frugal innovation sector, calling, in this sense, to take an interest in the different regions of the Kingdom, given the significant potential of each of them.
The goal, she said, is to upgrade the different regions of Morocco in such a way as not to focus only on the big cities that are more attractive, but rather to create a certain balance between the regions.
Organized by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM), the “National Industry Day”, bringing together ministries, relevant institutions, professional federations and private operators, aims to discuss the strategic development issues of the sector and the priorities of the new industrial strategy.
2024-08-03 14:32:47