The Royal project of social protection generalization will make a “crucial contribution to the fight against poverty”, the NGO Oxfam Morocco affirmed.
The decision to extend social coverage to all citizens is “a strategic step towards addressing the distortions that are undermining the Moroccan social protection system,” Oxfam Morocco said in a statement.
The reinforcement of the Moroccan social protection system is both a “victory and a response” to the demands made long before the pandemic crisis, the NGO noted, recalling that the measures taken in the context of the crisis have “attempted to reduce the negative effects of the pandemic and to offer a sort of social protection to individuals and families in vulnerable situations.”
“Extending social protection to all citizens is rightly considered the most important strategic decision affecting the essence of the social protection system in Morocco,” it added.
Oxfam Morocco considered this “qualitative” step as one of the main entry points to address social imbalances and inequalities, pleading for supporting this major project and making disparities-reduction an entry point for all public policies.
HM King Mohammed VI chaired on April 14 at the Royal Palace of Fez, the launching ceremony of the implementation of the project of generalization of social protection and the signing of the first related agreements.
This Royal project, which will initially benefit farmers, craftsmen and professionals, traders and independent service providers subject to the unified professional contribution scheme (CPU), the auto-entrepreneur scheme, or the accounting scheme, will be extended, in a second phase, to other categories to ensure the effective generalization of social protection to all citizens.
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