Statistics on Working Children and Education

In 2012, Morocco made a moderate advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. The Government provided specialized training to labor inspectors on child labor; committed funding for projects in several regions, including projects to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in handicrafts and commercial sexual exploitation; implemented programming on trafficking of girls; and conducted research on children working as domestic servants in Casablanca. In addition, the Government began Phase II of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH), a community-based poverty alleviation program designed to enhance the lives of vulnerable families and children, and continued to invest in education in rural areas through the cash assistance program, Tayssir. Despite these efforts, the Government lacks a coordinating mechanism to combat all worst forms of child labor. Children in Morocco continue to engage in the worst forms of child labor, particularly in hazardous activities in agriculture and domestic service