King Mohammed VI , in a speech delivered at the opening of the parliamentary session, announced the introduction of a social assistance program at the end of 2023.
The level of poverty and vulnerability has not decreased in Morocco. In 2022, it returned to the level recorded in 2014, according to a note from the High Commission for Planning (HCP) published last October. A situation that contributes to the increase in begging in the country.
85% of Moroccan families reported a significant deterioration in their standard of living. This is revealed by an HCP survey on household precariousness.
The government plans to grant a monthly financial aid to all underprivileged families . This flagship measure of the country’s social protection generalization process will be effective as early as this year, according to the government spokesman.
Before lack of money, 36% of Moroccans suffer from lack of food and 62% fear running out of it, according to a worrying report recently published.
The government plans to grant in 2023 a direct monthly financial aid to all underprivileged families . More specifically, seven million children and 3 million families will be concerned.
At the initiative of several associations, demonstrations were organized this week in about fifteen cities across Morocco to protest against the high cost of living.
In Morocco, the pandemic and inflation have caused an economic and social explosion, resulting in an increase in the poverty rate . This year, 3.2 million Moroccans have fallen into poverty. The kingdom has thus lost 7 years of progress, according to the HCP.
Moroccan athletics champion Faiza Bachar has been living for more than a year in a house that is in danger of collapsing. She occupies a room that, as one might expect, has no sanitation. This is the price to pay for not being able to rebuild her house demolished by the heavy rains that hit the Ouled Berhil region near the city of Taroudant.
Approximately 5.3 billion dirhams have just been released to enhance the ksours and kasbahs of southeastern Morocco as part of the integrated strategy for the sustainable enhancement of these spaces by 2026.
The Communal Equipment Fund (FEC) and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed, on July 28, 2021, two new financing agreements. While the first strengthens the strategic partnership between the two institutions against the effects of climate change, the second aims to reduce territorial and social disparities and support the economic recovery of Morocco .
In 2019, the absolute poverty rate stood at 1.2% in Morocco , with the overall improvement in the standard of living of Moroccans, particularly in urban areas. This is revealed by the National Observatory of Human Development (ONDH) which conducted a study on "The dynamics of poverty" in the kingdom.