📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2023.2047.1
Status:
ongoing project
Responsible organizational unit:
3600 North Africa
Contact person:
Stefanie Goemann stefanie.goemann@giz.de
Partner countries:
Morocco
SUMMARY
Goals:
The economic participation of women in future sectors has improved in selected regions.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Ministry for Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Labor and Training
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
7,000,000 euros
Current project:
7,000,000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
not available
PREDECESSOR PROJECT
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
29.08.2024 - 31.08.2028
Current project:
29.08.2024 - 31.08.2028
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
not available
MORE INFORMATION
project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
gender equality
main goal
Democratic and inclusive governance
Significant secondary goal
Inclusion and Empowerment of People with Disabilities
Significant secondary goal
CRS KEY
16020 Creation of employment opportunities
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation:
Gender equality plays an important role in promoting the Moroccan economy and combating poverty. Nevertheless, the employment rate of women in Morocco is still one of the lowest in the world. When women do work, they are mainly in informal employment relationships and are affected by precarious working conditions. A culture of equality hardly exists to date.
Objective:
In selected regions, the economic participation of women in future-oriented sectors, such as renewable energies, IT or the modern processing and marketing of agricultural products, has improved.
Approach:
The project uses a gender-transformative approach. This addresses not only the effects of gender inequality, but also its causes such as role models and power relations. To this end, the project works with the Moroccan government, future-oriented companies and civil society to give women greater economic participation. To this end, it implements the following measures:
• It trains employees of state institutions and public-private economic committees. This will enable them to better align public strategies and support measures with the needs of women and to harmonize them with local economic development measures.
• It addresses the external and internal barriers to entry together with private sector players in order to promote women's employment.
• It organizes training and coaching programs that take women's needs into account and qualify women for the labor market in future-oriented sectors. At the same time, the project involves the women's social environment in order to create broa
