Morocco Reports 8.2% Increase in Literacy Program Beneficiaries, Aims to Halve Illiteracy by 2026

During this meeting, the Head of Government, Saad Eddine El Othmani, expressed his satisfaction, in a speech presented on his behalf by Jamila Moussali, Minister of Solidarity, Social Development, Equality and Family.

The Prime Minister stated that the ANLCA has recorded, for the second consecutive year, exactly 1,131,703 beneficiaries against 1,045,974 last year, an increase of 8.2%, with a view to reducing the overall illiteracy rate to 20% in 2021 and less than 10% in 2026.

These results show that Morocco is working to push back the borders of illiteracy. The ANLCA trains people, 90% of whom are women and 52% belong to the rural environment. The most dominant age group is 35-49 years old.

According to the latest ANLCA data, 83% of the beneficiaries are enrolled in level 1, i.e. the literacy program, and 17% in level 2, i.e. the post-literacy program.

The Agency and its institutional partners are focusing on the quality of learning, through the qualification of literacy course managers, the development of the necessary mechanisms for monitoring programs and the implementation of means likely to add value to the Certificate of Fight against Illiteracy, the objective being to work to improve the living conditions of the beneficiaries of these programs.