Morocco Partners with Harvard to Train Officials in Evidence-Based Policymaking

This training, which is part of the ambitious Millennium Challenge Corporation (Compact II) program led by the Millennium Challenge Account-Morocco Agency, aims to promote the use of data and research-based lessons in decision-making, through the "Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence" (BCURE) project of Harvard within ENSA.

Since evaluation is a fundamental component of good governance, this training is important, to be in line with the new development model and the emergence of a new generation of public policies. According to the Director General of ENSA, Rachid Meliani, this training, which will be supervised by eminent professors from Harvard KSG such as Janina Matuszeski, Dan Levy, Charlotte Tuminelli and Amelia Knudso, will be done in two parts: the training of trainers (TOT) then, the deployment of BCURE modules within ENSA.

The first part is dedicated to the training of 23 teachers, senior executives and senior officials, in particular from the Ministries of Economy, Finance and Public Administration Reform, the Interior, as well as the National Observatory of Human Development, the Competition Council, the National Education and Training Evaluation Authority, as well as judges and finance inspectors. The second part will ensure the implementation of the BCURE modules in the ENSA curricula and their integration into the various initial and continuing training provided by the school, in order to support the deployment of the new development model.

Following this, Malika Laasri, the Director General of the Millennium Challenge Account-Morocco Agency, stressed that the BCURE training at the ENSA level aims to obtain a pool of national trainers who, in the long run, will make their knowledge available to the ENSA and other higher education institutions, in order to strengthen the skills of practitioners and executives of public institutions in this field.

She also stressed that with regard to June 30, 2022, the date on which the Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact II ends, it is important to take advantage of the 5 years of this second cooperation program between the governments of Morocco and the United States to ensure the perpetuation of these achievements.