The Middle East and North Africa is home to the largest youth population in the world, while also recording the highest levels of youth unemployment.
This high unemployment level is mainly due to the mismatch between the needs of employers and the competencies of young job seekers, the education system not preparing them enough for today’s and tomorrow’s jobs. EFE-Maroc provides youth with career orientation, offers them skills trainings and places its graduates in high-demand jobs.
We believe in the untapped talent of the thousands of unemployed youth in Morocco. We offer skills and hope to a generation who needs both to reshape its future.
Who Are We?
The Moroccan Foundation of Education For Employment, known as EFE-Maroc, is an association under Moroccan law founded in 2008.
Our mission is to address youth unemployment by bridging the gap between labor market needs and the existing hard and soft skills of young job seekers. EFE-Maroc offers demand-driven skills trainings delivered by certified trainers and covering technical, commercial, behavioral and linguistic competencies. We place our graduates in career-launching jobs in high-demand sectors such as: offshoring, automotive, aeronautics, ICT, agribusiness, tourism, retail, banking and insurance.
EFE-Maroc operates in Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier, Tetouan, Al Hoceima, Fes, Meknes, Marrakesh and Safi. Our network of 500+ certified trainers allows us to deliver trainings across the whole country.
Our Impact to Date
Our Performance in 2017
The EFE Network
EFE-Maroc is an Affiliate of the Education For Employment (EFE) Network also present in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Palestine and Jordan, with support offices in Europe (Madrid), the United States (Washington DC, New York) and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai).
With more than 73,000 graduates, 2,700 public and private partners and 2,000 trainers, EFE is the leading youth employment network in North Africa and the Middle East.
We cannot change the world, but we can change someone's life...
“I WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL TO EFE-MAROC FOR THE IMPACT IT’S HAD ON MY CAREER AND ON MY LIFE!”
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2017
We expanded our partnership with the Citi Foundation for a fifth year
A little over 5 years ago, Education For Employment was a different organization, a pilot that still needed to be proven successful. Our path crossed the one of Citi, and together, we paved a real pathway to progress. The Citi Foundation has continuously invested in our strategic approach, our systems, our new curricula, our innovation and our expansion into new countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
In 2017, the project “Creating Economic Opportunities for MENA Youth” funded by Citi was renewed for the fifth consecutive year. To date, tens of thousands of young people have been trained and placed in jobs.
We launched a new partnership with Boeing for women economic empowerment
EFE’s project “Creating Pathways to Employment for Moroccan Young Women” funded by Boeing aims at training underserved young women in Casablanca to facilitate their integration into the world of work.
We carried on with the “Training For the Future” project funded by Accenture
Training for the Future (TFF) is a 3-year project funded by Accenture as part of its “Skills to Succeed” initiative aimed at providing youth with the skills they need to find and sustain employment. The project aims to provide 1,000 youth and women with gainful employment.
We extended our impact to high school students and teachers with MCA-Morocco
We started a new project in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Among its objectives is opening up high school students’ minds to the world of work, providing them with career guidance, technology studies, and offering them extracurricular activities aligned with their career choices.
EFE-Maroc in the Media
Our Board of Directors
Our Board Members are our greatest ambassadors, advocates, and all-around supporters.
Meet Our Team
Our staff is made of passionate and engaged employees.
Committed to our values, we lead by example by often adding EFE graduates to our team who, in turn, offer other young people the chance to succeed.
