Organized by ENSA in partnership with Harvard KSG, this training cycle, which is part of the ambitious Millennium Challenge Corporation (Compact II) program carried out by the Millennium Challenge Account-Morocco Agency, aims to create a positive dynamic to bring to fruition the Harvard's "Building Capacity to use Research Evidence" (BCURE) project within the ENSA, which aims to promote the use of data and research based on data in the decision making.

Given the importance of evaluation as a fundamental component of good governance, this initiative undertaken by ENSA draws its philosophy from the renewal of the development model and the emergence of a new generation of public policies that call for an assessment of the effects and impacts of development actions undertaken by the State, according to the organizers.

In a statement to MAP, the Director General of ENSA Rachid Meliani explained that this training, which will be supervised by eminent professors from Harvard KSG like Janina Matuszeski, Dan Levy, Charlotte Tuminelli and Amelia Knudso, will be divided into two stages, namely a first part relating to the training of trainers (TOT) and a second dedicated to the deployment of BCURE modules within the ENSA.

In a similar statement, the Director General of the Millennium Challenge Account Agency-Morocco Malika Laasri noted that the launch of the BCURE training at the ENSA level aims to train a group of national trainers who will intervene at the ENSA and other higher education institutions with a view to improving the skills of practitioners and executives of public institutions in the design of public policies and their evaluation.

She specified that the Compact II of the Millennium Challenge Corporation ends on June 30, 2022, hence the need to take advantage of all the tools, partnerships, training and transfer of expertise offered during the 5 years of the second cooperation program between the government of Morocco and the United States.