Abstract
This paper fundamentally aspires to make context-based recommendations to the increasingly rising number of Moroccan female cooperatives in rural areas, particularly in the region of Fes-Meknes. Similarly, it endeavors to problematize illiteracy and its effects on local and regional development among rural women in the aforementioned region. It must be noted that solidarity cooperatives unquestionably help mitigate both feminine poverty and unemployment, and simultaneously incrementally establish an ongoing entrepreneurial platform for rural women. Such a platform can directly grant the potentiality of helping these women make quantum leaps in development, as well as become socio-culturally emancipated from the stereotypes and clichés that have kept them invisible for decades in the so-called domestic sphere. The data gathered by means of focus groups’ sessions in different Fes-Meknes areas and villages, Ifrane, Azrou, Imouzzer, Sefrou and Ain Louh, was of paramount importance in making recommendations that are realistically inspired and meticulously drawn from research informants whose participation in local and regional development, albeit challenges, has drawn a significant amount of attention from state actors, such as the Office of Development and Cooperation (ODCO) and associations of civil society, such as the Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (MCISE). One can confidently state that human development can solely be born out of solidarity, collaboration and encouragement in order to ultimately defy social ills and create seamless cohesion and prosperity.
Highlights
In recent years, Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has unequivocally become one of the most momentous vehicles for achieving economic development and social stability in a myriad of developing and developed economies due to its contribution to GDP growth, as well as wealth and job creation
The solidarity economy has brought to public attention notions of social utility and collective interest, and at the same time raised the question of the aim of these activities
It must be noted that creating an open space for communication between the various actors in the field of social innovation and solidarity economy will definitely help promote cooperatives, prolong their life expectancy and perpetually fuel and embolden the vital roles they play in sustainable development
Summary
Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has unequivocally become one of the most momentous vehicles for achieving economic development and social stability in a myriad of developing and developed economies due to its contribution to GDP growth, as well as wealth and job creation. The United Nations of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines literacy as the ability of a person to function in all the activities in which literacy is required for effective functioning of his/her group and the community and for enabling him/her to continue to use reading, writing and calculation for his/her own and the community’s development (EFA Global Monitoring Report, 2005) This is strongly endorsed by Adelore and Olomukoro who view literacy as being very critical for a country’s development because it brings empowerment to women which affects their lives (2015). It should be noted that Morocco's recent cooperatives law amendment comes as a result of learning from previous unsuccessful experiences of many cooperatives due to financial, legal, and/or supervisory reasons This has called for the conceptualization of a national framework in order to alleviate the problems of the rural world by creating more income-generating projects so as to combat poverty, literacy and unemployment. Illiteracy Effects on Local Development in the Moroccan Rural World
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