Rabat, July 4 -- Morocco and USAID, a US international development and humanitarian organization, have been working collaboratively on development projects since the 1960s with a particular focus on youth employability, citizen participation in governance, and primary school education.

Morocco's government has created its own policies to counter these issues and USAID funding and programming is intended to support and expand upon the work the Moroccan government is already doing.

Morocco is one of the US's oldest allies in the MENA region and the US has been providing economic assistance to Moroccan development initiatives since the country achieved its independence in 1957. After USAID was founded in 1961, it launched a series of proje...