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Morocco Increases CSR Certification as More Businesses Adopt Sustainability

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Business Honor Morocco boosts CSR certification drive

Business Honor
26 November, 2025

CGEM granted new and renewed CSR labels to businesses, this strengthens Morocco’s push for higher sustainability, moral practices, and responsible business standards.

Morocco's General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM) has granted its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) certification to two businesses and also extended it for a third. This suggests the country's increase in responsible business practices. After a meeting, the CGEM's CSR Label Attribution Committee approved S2M and Compagnie Générale Immobilière's (CGI) certification for the first time. LEYTON, an advisory group focused on innovation and environmental responsibility, received the renewal of its label after achieving higher standards.

The CSR status credits businesses that take a structured approach to social responsibility, combining the expectations of both internal and external stakeholders into their operations. Gaining it is an important step in a business's efforts to improve its social, environmental, and socially responsible operations. The CGEM's CSR label, designed to promote a complete environmental attitude, encourages Moroccan businesses to balance economic aims with social and environmental responsibilities. Before the label is issued, an independent expert approved by CGEM conducts a detailed assessment of the company's management systems and CSR performance. The certification is then granted for three years, with a chance to renew it.

Businesses considering renewal must fulfill higher performance standards, showing CGEM's dedication to continuous growth and greater acceptance of sustainable concepts. While the renewal process has a same broad framework, businesses that want to keep their label must show simpler, greater quantitative improvement. Red Med Private Equity obtained the CSR designation and HPS was renewed in the last batch of certification.

This suggests a nationwide move toward a more moral, accessible, and stakeholder-focused corporate governance. With more businesses accepting standards for CSR each year, experts expect that responsible business will soon become an important part of the country's economic landscape, a foundation for a future in which sustainability is at the center of business strategy.