UNICEF Morocco has just released its 2025 annual report, highlighting the Kingdom’s efforts to enshrine national reforms and achieve tangible results for its children.
“While this year has been marked, globally, by major challenges regarding children’s rights, Morocco has continued its efforts to bolster national reforms and generate concrete results for children, particularly the most vulnerable,” UNICEF Representative in the Kingdom Laura Bill said.
In Morocco, UNICEF has continued, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccan Expatriates to support national reforms aimed at achieving concrete results for the most vulnerable children, she emphasized in her introduction to the report titled “Support for Structural Reforms Related to Children’s Rights.”
In the area of social protection, and in partnership with the Ministry of Economy and Finance as well as the new National Social Support Agency, a study was conducted to support putting this agency into operation, she noted.
Regarding child protection, the UN official noted that new standardized procedures have been adopted to harmonize pathways within the Integrated Territorial Child Protection System, including for children in migration situations, adding that an assessment of detention practices and non-custodial alternatives has been completed and now serves as “a global benchmark.”
In the area of education, Bill noted that, in response to challenges of school dropout rates, an innovative model to keep girls in school has been implemented with remarkable results, adding that some schools have nearly eliminated dropout rates. In her view, “the evaluation of this model recommends its institutionalization.”
Regarding health, UNICEF facilitated the procurement of 19 million doses of vaccines and nutrients and supported the modernization of the cold chain and efforts to combat vaccine hesitancy, while strengthening national capacities, she noted, highlighting that this progress was made possible through all partners’ involvement, including the Government of Morocco, national institutions, civil society, the media, the academic community, technical and financial partners, and the private sector.
At the same time, Bill reaffirmed UNICEF’s full commitment, as the deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals approaches, to continuing its support for key initiatives promoting children’s rights, convinced that investing in children remains an essential driver of the Kingdom’s human and sustainable development.
Over some thirty pages, this annual report is divided on five main themes: health and nutrition, education, protection, social inclusion, and children’s participation.
- Source: MAP