Inclusion of children and adolescents with disabilities inĤ3. The Special Rapporteur wishes to draw the attention of the Government of Morocco to the risk of an over utilitarian approach to non formal education that would tie it to success or failure in school without taking account of learners’ needs and characteristics.ģ. 25 The persistence of illiteracy is primarily attributable to a combination of (a) the fact that children drop out and fail to complete primary or junior high school and (b) the limited coverage of non formal education arrangements.Ĥ2. According to recent information provided by the Government, 38.45 per cent of people aged over 10 (around 10 million) cannot read or write, 54.39 per cent of illiterates live in rural areas and 46.8 per cent of Moroccan women are illiterate. Some 35,000 students benefited from non formal education programmes in 2005. There are three major types of non formal education programmes: programmes to re enrol girls and boys who have recently dropped out (Istidrak programme) national programmes established in 2005 to support girls and boys at risk of dropping out and non formal education programmes implemented by local associations and funded either by the State or by private partners. The programmes were mostly carried out by NGOs (56 per cent) and the remainder by local offices of the Ministry of Education (27 per cent) or State operators (17 per cent).Ĥ0.
In 20, 500,000 to 700,000 people benefited from the various literacy programmes, 80 per cent of them women and most of those in rural areas. Morocco has implemented an intervention strategy based on sponsorship and cooperation with local associations establishment of separate structures at the central, regional and local levels to plan, coordinate and evaluate action taken in non formal education and literacy formulation or improvement of programmes and diversification of funding modalities and the inclusion of such activities in all anti poverty programmes.ģ9. In 2003 the Office adopted a national strategy on literacy and non formal education to gradually eradicate illiteracy and enrol or re enrol girls and boys aged 8 to 16 who are not in school or have dropped out. The Office of the Secretary of State for Literacy and Non Formal Education was created in 1997 as part of the drive to universalize education, guarantee everyone’s right to education and combat illiteracy. The Charter set the objective of bringing the overall illiteracy rate down below 20 per cent by 2010 and the virtual elimination of illiteracy by 2015, as well as re enrolling all dropouts, girls and boys, by 2010.
Inclusion of children and adolescents with disabilities in mainstream educationģ7.