Handicap International – Federal Information – Country card Morocco 2016 08 – EN
Morocco 2016
MANDATE In Morocco, Handicap International helps promote the social inclusion of the most vulnerable people and the improvement of their living conditions by advancing their rights, promoting recognition of their needs and service quality to meet these needs, and coordinating actors.
SITUATION In 2011, following the emergence of a grassroots protest movement, Morocco accelerated the transition towards democracy initiated by King Mohammed VI. Although the legislative and political framework in aid of the most vulnerable people1 is making progress, it has not yet been implemented across the country and much has still to be done.
The standard of living of the Moroccan population, however, still varies significantly between regions and social categories2. Despite a progressive legal framework3, people with disabilities and their families continue to encounter numerous obstacles in accessing adapted, quality services, either in mainstream or specialised environments.
ENH2 data4 sheds further light on this phenomenon: i) 66% of people with disabilities (PWDs) are uneducated; ii) 73% of PWDs are out of work; iii) 60% of PWDs have problems accessing general care provided by the health system; iv) two out of three PWDs do not receive any form of social security.
INITIAL ACTIONS Handicap International performed an exploratory mission in Morocco in 1993 at the request of the Ministry of Public Health. In 1996, the organisation launched two projects: A training project for orthopaedic technicians A support project to improve rehabilitation services
Since July 2011, the actions conducted by Handicap International in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia have been grouped into a regional programme, with a head office in Rabat, Morocco.
STAFF dedicated to the Morocco mission Staff dedicated to the Maghreb programme’s regional National staff: 12 coordination Expatriate staff: 2 salaried staff members and 1 voluntary National staff: 2 staff member Expatriate staff: 6
KEY FACTS The Convention on the Rights of Human Development Index (HDI) * 126/188 classified countries Ratified on 8/4/09 Gross National Income per capita * $6,850 per annum Persons with Disabilities (CRDPH) ($PPA) Oslo convention on cluster Not ratified Surface area** 446,550 sq.km. munitions Population** 33.45 million Ottawa mine ban convention Not ratified Life expectancy * 74 years
*UNDP: 2015 Human Development Report **UNSD 2015
1 The Moroccan constitution has been revised and makes formal mention of non-discrimination on the basis of disability and gender. 225% of the population lives at or under the poverty threshold (source: World Bank). More than half of women are illiterate (52%) (Source: CESE) and 63% of women aged 18 to 64 have experienced some form of violence in the year prior to the survey conducted by the Haut-Commissariat au Plan (2011) 3 Ratification of the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (2009) and the adoption of an inclusive public policy to advance the rights of people with disabilities (2017-2026) and Framework Law 97-13 on protecting and promoting the rights of people with disabilities 4 National Disability Survey 2014 Benoit Almeras – [email protected] 1 Handicap International – Federal Information – Country card Morocco 2016 08 – EN
Current projects 2016
Strengthening local social action mechanisms and improving access to anti-violence services for women and girls
GOAL Urban social development processes (USD) help improve the quality of life and social involvement of people with disabilities, particularly women with disabilities who are victims of violence in the region of Rabat - Salé - Kenitra
METHOD Assisting, supporting and strengthening local information and guidance centres (CLIO) for people with disabilities in Salé and Khemisset; Strengthening actors and existing services; Promoting cooperation between actors and existing services; Developing in a participatory manner a support protocol for women and girls with disabilities who are victims of violence.
BENEFICIARIES 300 people with disabilities, including at least 180 women; 12 CLIO guidance advisors; 6 organisation members who have become trainers; 20 local DPOs and 30 members of local organisations; 20 anti-violence services.
PARTNERS Bouregreg Association’s Club for People with Disabilities (CHAB) CBR programme support organisation in Khemisset Association of Inclusive Education Teachers of Khemisset (A.P.I.S.K) Entraide Nationale (public institution)
LOCATION Municipalities of Salé, Khemisset, Tifelt, Rommani, Maaziz and Oulmes (province of Khemisset).
Inclusive education and inclusive local development Regional project run in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
GOAL In Morocco, improve access for children with disabilities to quality education in the regions of Rabat-Salé-Kenitra and Souss-Massa. Improve access to quality education for children with disabilities in the administrative districts of Sétif and Tizi Ouzou in Algeria. This improvement takes the form of developing the skills of local stakeholders, local social action schemes, concerted local policies and discussion dynamics at regional level.
METHOD Handicap International is doing the following: Raising the awareness of the parents of children with disabilities, local stakeholders and the media on the right to education. Training and supporting teaching professionals on inclusive practices and personalised social support. Bolstering the mechanisms for supplying orthopaedic devices and technical aids for children with disabilities. Putting in place local social action schemes and technically and financially supporting DPOs to ensure that they take part in these schemes. Delivering advocacy and local consultation training to DPOs. Training local stakeholders on developing and coordinating inclusive public policies. Facilitating and developing a regional skills, distance learning and discussion scheme.
BENEFICIARIES 2,000 children with disabilities and their families benefitting from inclusive services, of whom 100 have a personalised support or education plan. 30 education services are being supported in order to foster the development of an inclusive environment. Members of partner organisations who have received training on advocacy and local consultation. The local population whose awareness has been raised on the principles underpinning inclusion.
PARTNERS Bouregreg Association’s Club for People with Disabilities (CHAB - in Salé) Disabled Children’s Association (AEH – in Agadir)
LOCATION Benoit Almeras – [email protected] 2 Handicap International – Federal Information – Country card Morocco 2016 08 – EN
Morocco: regions of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and Souss-Massa
Inclusive education: promoting access to education for children with disabilities in the region of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra
GOAL Enforce the right of children with disabilities to an education and enable their access to mainstream education through coordination with local actors and promotion of inclusive practices in the region of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra
METHOD Handicap International implements the following activities: Building the knowledge and skills of institutional stakeholders and education professionals Supporting a themed working group on inclusive education and working together to implement, promote, monitor and evaluate programmes and schemes designed to foster inclusive education. Supporting innovative practices to ensure the enrolment of children with disabilities in mainstream schools and their modelling.
BENEFICIARIES 20 representatives of DPOs; 10 representatives of Entraide nationale; 100 teachers of CLIS and mainstream classes; 200 representatives of public institutions and education personnel; 250 parents of children with disabilities; 150 representatives of civil society; 900 children with disabilities.
PARTNERS Regional education and training academy (AREF).
LOCATION Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region.
Inclusive education: access to schools for children with disabilities in Morocco
GOAL Enable children with disabilities to access mainstream education; ensure children with disabilities have access to schools in regions targeted by the project and benefit from services that meet their socio-educational needs as part of a multi-actor inclusion mechanism.
METHOD Handicap International is doing the following: Strengthening non-profit actors and supporting their actions to promote the inclusion of children with disabilities; Promoting the identification of children not enrolled in school, and helping schools implement personalised education projects via a multidisciplinary team: Assisting pilot schools develop school projects as part of an inclusive approach; Providing support to local actors and professionals from institutions and non-profit organisations to draw up local action plans.
BENEFICIARIES Multidisciplinary teams from six association centres; 400 disabled children and their families; 6 provincial Ministry for National Education delegations; 225 teachers, 18 school heads and 30 education actors; 600 representatives of public institutions; 800 parents of children with disabilities; 500 representatives of civil society and the general public.
PARTNERS Moroccan association to support and aid people with Down’s Syndrome (AMSAT) and the Mohammed VI national centre for people with disabilities; Benoit Almeras – [email protected] 3 Handicap International – Federal Information – Country card Morocco 2016 08 – EN
Regional education and training academy (AREF).
LOCATION Regions of Rabat Salé Kénitra (2016), Grand Casablanca (2017), and Tanger Tetouan (2017)
Inclusive education: secondary school
GOAL Develop a response model for the inclusive education of boys and girls with disabilities in secondary schools implemented in the region of Souss-Massa by building the skills of local actors and actors in the education sector, and building bridges with primary schools, specialised services and occupational training.
METHOD Handicap International implements the following activities: Analysing the enrolment of children with disabilities in college; Promoting the mobilisation and coordination of local actors and professionals involved in the school enrolment of children with disabilities; Raising the awareness of national, regional and local actors and relevant education professionals; Training and supporting professionals involved in the inclusion of students with disabilities; Testing an inclusion mechanism in pilot colleges to build bridges with primary schools, secondary schools, and providers of special education and occupational training; Modelling the mechanism tested in pilot colleges; Promoting regional and national advocacy to overcome obstacles to inclusive education.
BENEFICIARIES Children with disabilities from the region of Souss-Massa and their parents; 150 primary school professionals (teachers and head teachers); At least 60 secondary school professionals; At least 11 education district inspectors; National and regional managers and decision-makers who will benefit from reference frameworks, appropriate resources and good practices.
PARTNERS Regional education and training academy (AREF); Ministry for National Education and Occupational Training.
LOCATION Souss-Massa Region.
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Improving access to employment for young people with disabilities
GOAL The aim of this project is to improve the living conditions and reduce the inequalities experienced by people with disabilities by giving them access to livelihoods and sufficient incomes to be able to live with dignity.
METHOD Handicap International is doing the following: Building the capacity of public and private sector professional inclusion service providers in order to improve the support they deliver to young people with disabilities. Identifying and raising the awareness of businesses and helping them develop recruitment, inclusion and retention policies for people with disabilities. Helping young people with disabilities get training and look for work. Supporting three partner associations to ensure that they operate properly. Setting up a themed working group on the professional inclusion of people with disabilities in order to identify shared tools for assessment and for developing personalised professional inclusion plans.
BENEFICIARIES Young job seekers with disabilities and their families. Businesses identified as being future employers. Company directors and HR managers who have had their awareness raised on the issue. Trained professional inclusion workers.
PARTNERS Moroccan Disabled People’s Association (AMH). National Association for the Integration of People with Learning Difficulties (Anaïs). Moroccan Association of Hearing Impaired Children (AMES). Collective to promote the rights and citizenship of people with disabilities in the Casablanca-Settat Region.
LOCATION Casablanca.
Capacity-building for disabled people’s organisations
GOAL The primary objective of this project is to encourage people with disabilities to be more involved in society by building the intervention and mobilisation capacities of the organisations that represent them.
METHOD Handicap International is doing the following: Building the technical and operational capacities of organisations that work to support people with disabilities. Bolstering contact between the various disability stakeholders by structuring their networks in the regions. Supporting the national collective that works to advance the rights of people with disabilities.
BENEFICIARIES Disability operators and people with disabilities.
PARTNERS - Southern Morocco Association of Hearing Impaired Children (AMESS). - National Network of Community-Based Rehabilitation Organisations (RNRBC), - Moroccan Braille League of Taza (LBM), - Network of Disability Organisations of Northern Morocco (RAODH), - Tazzanine in Agadir, - Al Mostaqbal Association for Education and Professional Initiation to Special Needs. - Al Ghofran Autism (Oujda), - Al Farahdes Association for People with Special Needs (Nador), - Safaa Association (Oujda), - Zagora Disabled People’s Organisation (APHZ).
LOCATION Morocco
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Increasing the socio-economic and political inclusion of people with disabilities Regional project run in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
GOAL Facilitate dialogue between organisations working in the disability field, civil society organisations and the public authorities in order to enable inclusive public policies aimed at advancing the rights of people with disabilities to be developed, rolled out and monitored.
METHOD Handicap International is implementing this project in partnership with organisations working in the disability field and benefitting directly from the initiative. This partnership combines Handicap International’s expertise in the field of rights and advocacy for people with disabilities and local partners’ specific skills in inclusive policy analysis. The direct involvement of people with disabilities is key to the success of this project which primarily hinges upon methods for developing advocacy and the success of organisation networks.
BENEFICIARIES Collective for the Promotion of the Rights of People with Disabilities. People with disabilities in Morocco
PARTNERS Collective for the Promotion of the Rights of People with Disabilities
LOCATION Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
Improving the quality and sustainability of medical-social services in Morocco
GOAL This project seeks to improve the living conditions, independence and involvement in society of people with disabilities living in Morocco by facilitating the provision of quality medical-social services (hospitals, community health centres, and administrative support services for people with disabilities).
METHOD Handicap International is doing the following: Setting service quality and sustainability standards that meet international standards: the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and European Quality in Social Services (EQUASS). Raising the awareness of facility managers on service quality improvement schemes and on addressing user needs. Rolling out training and coaching initiatives for 50 professionals in order to improve provision and support for people with disabilities. Supporting the development of new services/professions in these facilities, particularly relating to independent living (social workers, psychomotricity specialists etc).
BENEFICIARIES People with disabilities and their families. 50 medical-social health professionals. Medical-social services facilities.5
PARTNERS Five pilot medical-social services facilities. - Association of Parents and Friends of Children of La Passerelle - APAEP (Salé), - Louis Braille Association for Blind and Visually Impaired People (Tétouan) - El Jadida Social Works Provincial Association - APOS - Association of Parents and Guardians of Down’s Syndrome Children - APTET (Rabat) - Al Ihssane Association (Casablanca).
LOCATION Morocco.
5 Medical-social service establishments are assigned as social protection establishments in Morocco
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Occupational therapy to promote the autonomy of people with disabilities in Morocco
GOAL Advance the rights and improve the quality of life of people with disabilities and their families by implementing added-value occupational components based on international standards in the functional rehabilitation, social rehabilitation, school and occupational sectors in Morocco.
METHOD Handicap International aims at: Building the capacities of the Ministry of Health by providing direct technical support to the ministry in order to: o Develop the curriculum to meet international criteria o Implement professional articles of association o Produce training specifications o Identify and train trainers for basic and specialised teaching o Implement an effective partnership with WFOT
BENEFICIARIES Young people and older people with disabilities with temporary loss of autonomy Ministry for Solidary, Women, the Family and Social Development and all medical-social service providers Professionals and students from the rehabilitation sector Ministry for Health
PARTNERS Ministry for Health World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT)
LOCATION Rabat
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MAIN FUNDING BODIES
(Brussels, Belgium) Agence Française de European Commission Développement (AFD)
Principality of Monaco ADDOHA Foundation Department for International Drosos Foundation Cooperation
OCP Foundation Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Rhone-Alps Region
UNICEF
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