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As Morocco gradually implements an ambitious regionalization plan, it has opted to implement contractual hiring of public servants instead of the current job-for-life model, which has compromised efficiency and drained state resources. However, hiring by contracts was not easily accepted by many sectors especially teachers who staged months-long protests for fears about their job security […]
King Mohammed VI instructed the Interior Minister to ensure that appointments in senior positions should be merit-based in order to boost efficiency and rationalize human resources. The King reiterated that the constitutional principles of equal opportunities and accountability should be upheld. In a message in February to participants in the National Forum on the Senior […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco reaffirmed the need for putting the public service at the heart of Morocco’s new development model with a view to keeping up with the changes taking place domestically and internationally. The call was made in a message to participants in the National Forum on the Senior Civil Service, which opened […]
Morocco’s Court of Auditors, led by former PM Driss Jetou, has issued a report drawing a diagnosis of the civil service while offering eleven recommendations to boost its effectiveness. The report was issued after King Mohammed VI gave scathing criticism in the Throne Speech last July of the underperforming civil service drawing a contrast between […]
Head of the Moroccan Government, Saad Eddine El Othmani, announced that a set of measures will be taken to implement the directives laid down in the speech, delivered by King Mohammed VI on the occasion of Throne Day. In the speech, the Monarch lambasted public officials and the civil service for falling short of fulfilling […]