80 FR 77377 - Notice of Entering Into a Compact With the Kingdom of Morocco
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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 239 (Monday, December 14, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 77377-77379] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-31366] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION [MCC FR 15-05] Notice of Entering Into a Compact With the Kingdom of Morocco AGENCY: Millennium Challenge Corporation. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 610(b)(2) of the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7701-7718) as amended (the Act), and the heading ``Millennium Challenge Corporation'' of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2015, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is publishing a summary of the Millennium Challenge Compact between the United States of America, acting through the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and the Kingdom of Morocco. Representatives of the United States Government and Morocco executed the Compact documents on November 30, 2015. The complete text of the Compact has been posted at https://assets.mcc.gov/documents/compact-morocco-employability-and-land.pdf. Dated: December 9, 2015. Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, Vice President and General Counsel, Millennium Challenge Corporation. Summary of Millennium Challenge Compact With the Kingdom of Morocco Overview MCC has signed a five-year, $450 million compact with the Government of Morocco (GoM) aimed at reducing poverty through economic growth. The compact seeks to assist the GoM in addressing two major constraints to economic growth: Education quality and land productivity, with an approach and methodology that incorporate the core issues of government and public-private coordination. Program Overview and Budget Morocco was selected for compact eligibility in December 2012, and the subsequent constraints analysis identified (i) education quality; (ii) land policy and implementation (with qualitatively different issues for rural areas and industrial land); and (iii) governance, notably labor market regulations, taxes, and the judiciary system as binding constraints to economic growth and investment. In addition, the analysis identified the effectiveness of the Moroccan government's level of coordination as an [[Page 77378]] overarching issue that directly impacts the binding constraints identified and the efforts of the GoM to address them, resulting in low productivity of government investment. The land and education sectors represent binding constraints to growth and provide opportunities to develop policy responses to both the supply and demand for skilled labor. The compact directly addresses the root causes of these binding constraints, which are: (1) Secondary education and workforce development systems that produce a supply of workers that do not adequately meet private sector skills demand, and (2) Land policy and implementation that inhibit access to and productive uses of rural and industrial land, thus diminishing investment and consequent demand for labor. By improving the policy and institutional environment, and creating models to engage the private sector, the two projects will address both the supply and demand sides of the labor market. Both projects support the shift from static, state-led systems to competitive, dynamic systems that engage the private sector and respond to market needs. Further, both projects take a targeted approach to developing and demonstrating new models, and building capacity so that those models can be replicated and scaled up post-compact. The budget for the compact is $450 million, not including the contribution by the GoM of approximately $67.5 million or 15 percent of the U.S. contribution, allocated as follows (all figures are approximate due to rounding): Compact Budget Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Budget (in U.S. Project/activity $) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Education and Training for Employability Project: Secondary Education............................... $112,580,000 Workforce Development............................. 107,420,000 ----------------- Education and Training for Employability Project 220,000,000 Subtotal............................................. Land Productivity Project: Governance........................................ 10,500,000 Rural Land........................................ 33,000,000 Industrial Land................................... 127,000,000 ----------------- Land Productivity Project Subtotal.................... 170,500,000 Monitoring and Evaluation............................. 10,000,000 Program Administration and Oversight.................. 49,500,000 ----------------- Compact Grand Total................................... 450,000,000 Government of Morocco Contribution.................... 67,500,000 ----------------- Program Grand Total............................... 517,500,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Education and Training for Employability Project aims to increase the employability and employment rate of Moroccans by improving the quality and relevance of, and equitable access to, secondary education and workforce development programs in response to private sector needs. Given significant social and gender inequalities in Morocco, a concerted effort has been made to ensure that the Education and Training for Employability Project results in equitable outcomes for both girls and boys and reduces social, gender, and geographically-based inequalities. The Land Productivity Project aims to increase land productivity in Morocco by enabling land markets to better respond to investor demand and by strengthening the enabling environment for investment Education and Training for Employability Project The Education and Training for Employability Project is comprised of two activities aimed at increasing the employability and employment rate of Moroccans by improving the quality and relevance of, and equitable access to, secondary education and workforce development programs in response to private sector needs. 1. Secondary Education Activity. The Secondary Education Activity aims to demonstrate a new cost-effective, sustainable, and scalable model of public secondary schools for delivering quality secondary education focused on the employability competencies needed for the modern workforce. It will also support key reforms to improve system performance management. The model will be piloted and rigorously evaluated in approximately 90-110 schools, which will receive a multi- faceted package of interventions in the three key areas of school management, pedagogy, and infrastructure. This package will support schools in meeting the terms of new performance contracts and will also work to create an enhanced learning environment for students that better meets their developmental needs, and better prepares them for tertiary education or entry into the labor market. MCC funding will also support the development, planning, and implementation of rigorous international and national assessments of student learning, and the utilization of assessment data to inform decisions for improving performance. MCC funding will additionally support the development and piloting of a new approach to school infrastructure and information technology operations and maintenance, through private sector performance contracts in these areas. 2. Workforce Development Activity. The Workforce Development Activity aims to increase the employability of Moroccans by: Improving the quality and relevance of, and equitable access to, private sector- driven technical and vocational education and training (TVET). The activity will also provide: (i) Technical assistance to develop and implement demand-driven TVET sector policy; (ii) effective employment services to help unemployed or economically inactive women as well as at-risk urban and peri-urban youth to obtain quality jobs; and (iii) support to a labor market observatory that will provide dynamic labor market information to improve decision-making for public policy and private investment. [[Page 77379]] An MCC- and GoM-funded grant facility will support selected private sector-driven training centers by issuing grants for infrastructure, equipment, and technical assistance. Additionally, results-based incentive mechanisms, such as social impact bonds, will be used to support promising programs that provide integrated job placement services for women and at-risk urban youth. MCC funding will also support the development and implementation of rigorous impact evaluations to test other non-MCC funded promising labor market interventions. Land Productivity Project The project aims to increase land productivity in Morocco by enabling land markets to better respond to investor demand and by strengthening the enabling environment for investment. To achieve this objective, MCC funding will support the following activities: 1. Governance Activity. The Governance Activity is designed to support the development and implementation of a long-term land productivity strategy to address governance and land market constraints to investment and productivity. Once the strategy and roadmap to its implementation are in place, the activity will finance implementation of key elements of the roadmap. 2. Rural Land Activity. The Rural Land Activity aims to increase rural productivity by making the GoM's current process for privatizing irrigated collective lands more inclusive and less time-consuming. The activity will (i) develop procedures for privatization of irrigated collective land that can be implemented within three years or less; (ii) use these improved procedures to support the privatization of up to 46,000 hectares of collective land within Morocco's Gharb region; and (iii) develop and apply tools to address other land-related root causes of low productivity identified during due diligence, such as minimum parcel size requirements. The activity will engage in extensive consultations and outreach in the region of intervention and will develop and apply fair and inclusive land allocation criteria that protect the rights of land holders, including women. 3. Industrial Land Activity. The Industrial Land Activity aims to transform the way the GoM brings industrial land to market, from a state- to a market-driven approach, through the development of a new model for industrial zone development. By using public-private partnerships for industrial land development, the activity seeks to encourage private sector participation in the development and management of industrial zones, and to ensure that such development and management responds to private sector demand in terms of location, land offering, infrastructure and site and social services. Economic Analysis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Project/activity ERR Beneficiaries ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Education and Training for 12.7% to 14.5% 2,019,100 Employability Project.............. Secondary Education............. 12.4% to 15.1% 1,744,100 Workforce Development........... 13.2% 275,000 Land Productivity Project........... 15.8% to 18.0% 177,800 Governance...................... ................ ................ Rural Land...................... 23.0% 81,500 Industrial Land................. 13.4% to 16.7% 96,300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * The costs of the governance activity are included in the Land Productivity Project's overall ERR. An economic rate of return (ERR) was calculated for each of the compact's projects. The costs of the Governance Activity, which is a critical national policy and institutional reform component that will support a land strategy and roadmap, as well as the long-term sustainability and impact of the project's other two activities, are included in the overall ERR for the Land Productivity Project. The Compact is expected to benefit 2.2 million people over a twenty-year period. [FR Doc. 2015-31366 Filed 12-11-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 9211-03-P
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public interest specified in notice 80 FR • Evaluate whether and if so how the MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
76574–75 which was published on quality, utility, and clarity of the CORPORATION
Wednesday, December 9, 2015. The information to be collected can be
[MCC FR 15–05]
deadline to submit statements on the enhanced; and
public interest is extended to Friday, • Minimize the burden of the Notice of Entering Into a Compact With
December 18, 2015. collection of information on those who the Kingdom of Morocco
Issued: December 9, 2015. are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated, AGENCY: Millennium Challenge
Lisa R. Barton,
electronic, mechanical, or other Corporation.
Secretary to the Commission.
technological collection techniques or ACTION: Notice.
[FR Doc. 2015–31354 Filed 12–11–15; 8:45 am]
other forms of information technology,
BILLING CODE 7020–02–P SUMMARY: In accordance with Section
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
610(b)(2) of the Millennium Challenge
responses.
Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7701–7718) as
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Overview of this information amended (the Act), and the heading
collection 1140–0073: ‘‘Millennium Challenge Corporation’’ of
[OMB Number 1140–0073] 1. Type of Information Collection the Department of State, Foreign
(check justification or form 83): Operations, and Related Programs
Agency Information Collection
Extension of a currently approved Appropriations Act, 2015, the
Activities; Proposed eCollection
collection. Millennium Challenge Corporation
eComments Requested; Furnishing of
Samples 2. The Title of the Form/Collection: (MCC) is publishing a summary of the
Furnishing of Samples. Millennium Challenge Compact
AGENCY: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 3. The agency form number, if any, between the United States of America,
Firearms and Explosives, Department of and the applicable component of the acting through the Millennium
Justice. Department sponsoring the collection: Challenge Corporation, and the
ACTION: 60-day notice. Form number (if applicable): None. Kingdom of Morocco. Representatives of
the United States Government and
SUMMARY: The Department of Justice Component: Bureau of Alcohol, Morocco executed the Compact
(DOJ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. documents on November 30, 2015. The
Firearms and Explosives (ATF), will Department of Justice. complete text of the Compact has been
submit the following information 4. Affected public who will be asked posted at https://assets.mcc.gov/
collection request to the Office of or required to respond, as well as a brief documents/compact-morocco-
Management and Budget (OMB) for abstract: employability-and-land.pdf.
review and approval in accordance with Primary: Businesses and other non- Dated: December 9, 2015.
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. profits. Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong,
DATES: Comments are encouraged and Other (if applicable): None. Vice President and General Counsel,
will be accepted for 60 days until Abstract: ATF requires licensed Millennium Challenge Corporation.
February 12, 2016. manufacturers and importers and
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
Summary of Millennium Challenge
persons who manufacture or import
you have additional comments Compact With the Kingdom of Morocco
explosives materials or ammonium
especially on the estimated public nitrate to submit samples at the request Overview
burden or associated response time, of the Director. MCC has signed a five-year, $450
suggestions, or need a copy of the 5. An estimate of the total number of million compact with the Government
proposed information collection respondents and the amount of time of Morocco (GoM) aimed at reducing
instrument with instructions or estimated for an average respondent to poverty through economic growth. The
additional information, please contact respond: An estimated 2,350 compact seeks to assist the GoM in
Anita Scheddel, Program Analyst, respondents will take 30 minutes to addressing two major constraints to
Explosives Industry Programs Branch, complete the survey. economic growth: Education quality and
99 New York Ave. NE., Washington, DC 6. An estimate of the total public land productivity, with an approach and
20226 at email: Anita.Scheddel@atf.gov. burden (in hours) associated with the methodology that incorporate the core
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written collection: The estimated annual public issues of government and public-private
comments and suggestions from the burden associated with this collection is coordination.
public and affected agencies concerning 1, 175 hours.
the proposed collection of information Program Overview and Budget
If additional information is required
are encouraged. Your comments should contact: Jerri Murray, Department Morocco was selected for compact
address one or more of the following Clearance Officer, United States eligibility in December 2012, and the
four points: Department of Justice, Justice subsequent constraints analysis
• Evaluate whether the proposed Management Division, Policy and identified (i) education quality; (ii) land
collection of information is necessary Planning Staff, Two Constitution policy and implementation (with
for the proper performance of the Square, 145 N Street NE., Room 3E– qualitatively different issues for rural
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functions of the agency, including 405B, Washington, DC 20530. areas and industrial land); and (iii)
whether the information will have governance, notably labor market
practical utility; Dated: December 8, 2015. regulations, taxes, and the judiciary
• Evaluate the accuracy of the Jerri Murray, system as binding constraints to
agency’s estimate of the burden of the Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. economic growth and investment. In
proposed collection of information, Department of Justice. addition, the analysis identified the
including the validity of the [FR Doc. 2015–31334 Filed 12–11–15; 8:45 am] effectiveness of the Moroccan
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An MCC- and GoM-funded grant 1. Governance Activity. The productivity identified during due
facility will support selected private Governance Activity is designed to diligence, such as minimum parcel size
sector-driven training centers by issuing support the development and requirements. The activity will engage
grants for infrastructure, equipment, and implementation of a long-term land in extensive consultations and outreach
technical assistance. Additionally, productivity strategy to address in the region of intervention and will
results-based incentive mechanisms, governance and land market constraints develop and apply fair and inclusive
such as social impact bonds, will be to investment and productivity. Once land allocation criteria that protect the
used to support promising programs the strategy and roadmap to its rights of land holders, including
that provide integrated job placement implementation are in place, the activity women.
services for women and at-risk urban will finance implementation of key 3. Industrial Land Activity. The
youth. MCC funding will also support elements of the roadmap. Industrial Land Activity aims to
the development and implementation of 2. Rural Land Activity. The Rural transform the way the GoM brings
rigorous impact evaluations to test other Land Activity aims to increase rural industrial land to market, from a state-
productivity by making the GoM’s to a market-driven approach, through
non-MCC funded promising labor
current process for privatizing irrigated the development of a new model for
market interventions.
collective lands more inclusive and less industrial zone development. By using
Land Productivity Project time-consuming. The activity will (i) public-private partnerships for
develop procedures for privatization of industrial land development, the
The project aims to increase land irrigated collective land that can be activity seeks to encourage private
productivity in Morocco by enabling implemented within three years or less; sector participation in the development
land markets to better respond to (ii) use these improved procedures to and management of industrial zones,
investor demand and by strengthening support the privatization of up to 46,000 and to ensure that such development
the enabling environment for hectares of collective land within and management responds to private
investment. To achieve this objective, Morocco’s Gharb region; and (iii) sector demand in terms of location, land
MCC funding will support the following develop and apply tools to address other offering, infrastructure and site and
activities: land-related root causes of low social services.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Project/activity ERR Beneficiaries
Education and Training for Employability Project ........................................................................................... 12.7% to 14.5% 2,019,100
Secondary Education ............................................................................................................................... 12.4% to 15.1% 1,744,100
Workforce Development ........................................................................................................................... 13.2% 275,000
Land Productivity Project ................................................................................................................................. 15.8% to 18.0% 177,800
Governance .............................................................................................................................................. ............................ ............................
Rural Land ................................................................................................................................................ 23.0% 81,500
Industrial Land .......................................................................................................................................... 13.4% to 16.7% 96,300
* The costs of the governance activity are included in the Land Productivity Project’s overall ERR.
An economic rate of return (ERR) was must use Diagonal Road Entrance), FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
calculated for each of the compact’s Alexandria, VA 22314–3428. Gerard Poliquin, Secretary of the Board,
projects. The costs of the Governance STATUS: Open. Telephone: 703–518–6304.
Activity, which is a critical national
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Gerard Poliquin,
policy and institutional reform
component that will support a land 1. Notice and Request for Comment, Secretary of the Board.
strategy and roadmap, as well as the Regulatory Review in Accordance with [FR Doc. 2015–31502 Filed 12–10–15; 4:15 pm]
long-term sustainability and impact of the Economic Growth Regulatory BILLING CODE 7535–01–P
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included in the overall ERR for the Land 2. NCUA Rules and Regulations,
Productivity Project. Adding Share Insurance Coverage for
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