Morocco’s Ministry of Economy and Finance has published the 2026 edition of its Gender-Responsive Budget Report (RBG 2026), providing a structured overview of the legal and institutional advances made in favor of gender equality across government ministries. The report is produced in the context of Morocco’s demographically transitional moment, as revealed by the 2024 general census: declining fertility, smaller households and accelerating population ageing are reshaping the forms of family and intergenerational solidarity, while opening new discussions about the care economy as a lever of inclusive growth.
Morocco introduced gender-sensitive budgeting progressively from 2002 onward, formalized it in the 2015 Organic Finance Law, and has since embedded gender performance indicators across ministerial budget programs. The 2026 report documents the most recent legal progress. In the justice sector, Law No. 43.22 on alternative sentences to incarceration entered into force in August 2025, providing for community service adapted to sex, age and professional capacity, and incorporating specific protections for women, minors, persons with disabilities and the elderly. In the governance domain, a 2025 decree approved a new code of good governance for public enterprises, establishing a minimum 40 percent female representation on boards of directors and codifying gender parity as a performance criterion.
In healthcare, an amendment to Law No. 65-00 on basic medical coverage, effective September 2025, now authorizes insured mothers to register their children under their own affiliation. Previously, this right was reserved exclusively to fathers. The reform advances the concept of parental co-responsibility by allowing both parents to choose jointly which affiliate’s coverage their children will benefit from.
Within the social economy, the State Secretariat responsible for Crafts and Social Solidarity Economy (SEAESS) reported that women accounted for 68 percent of beneficiaries of its technical and material support programs in 2024, 48 percent of users of new infrastructure, 61 percent of graduates from its training programs and 35 percent of artisans trained. The self-employment program, designed to support the creation of very small enterprises, accompanied 8,733 project holders in 2024, of whom 40.2 percent were women.
Across the broader public sector, a World Bank-partnered project has been launched to strengthen the reporting and signaling of gender-based violence and harassment in universities, while access to university housing reached a satisfaction rate of 47 percent overall and 45 percent among female students. The RBG’s publication signals the continued institutionalization of gender as a budgetary discipline in Morocco, anchoring equality commitments in measurable program outcomes rather than declaratory policy alone.
