Morocco, Mauritania Seek to Strengthen Cooperation in Vocational Training

After signing a vocational training agreement last March, Morocco and Mauritania are working hard to expand their cooperation in this field.

Rabat – After signing a vocational training agreement last March, Morocco and Mauritania are working hard to expand their cooperation in this field.

Yesterday in Marrakech, Younes Sekkouri, Minister of Economic Integration, Small Business, Employment, and Skills, discussed ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the field of vocational training with Lalya Camara, Minister of Employment and Vocational Training.

These discussions took place on the fringes of the 5th Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Ministerial Conference on Employment and Labor, which concluded yesterday in Marrakech.

According to Sekkouri, these conversations are part of both sides’ commitment to implement the agreement struck between Morocco and Mauritania during the ninth session of the Moroccan-Mauritanian Joint Higher Committee in Rabat.

Morocco, according to the minister, has pioneering knowledge in the subject of vocational training, which will be extremely valuable for this Maghreb country striving to modernize its vocational training system.

During the 8th session of the Moroccan-Mauritanian High Joint Commission of senior officials held on March 9 in Rabat, Morocco and Mauritania inked a framework agreement for cooperation in vocational training.

The agreement was signed between the Office of Vocational Training and Employment Promotion and the Mauritanian Ministry of National Education and Education System Reform.

This agreement intends to build a framework of collaboration between the two parties by assisting the Mauritanian side in achieving its human resource development strategy with the assistance of the Office of Vocational Training and Job Promotion.

It also aims to formulate a system dedicated to organizing and developing vocational training institutions, and to develop an action plan to improve the work of active institutions in this field.

This is in addition to organizing training courses in the field of establishing small and medium-sized enterprises for the benefit of Mauritanian institutions.