Commissioner for Human Rights Receives GRDR Delegation
On 18 November, in Nouakchott, Mr. Sid’Ahmed Ould Benane, the Commissioner for Human Rights, Humanitarian Action, and Relations with Civil Society, received a delegation from the GRDR Migration-Citoyenneté-Développement organization, comprising its President, Mr. Jean-Marc Pradelle, Director Olivier Le Masson, and Country Manager in Mauritania, Mr. Moïse Luemba.
The Commissioner held a working session with the GRDR team, during which he recalled the importance of the partnership and the framework agreement signed in 2023, highlighting his institution’s interest in the GRDR’s initiatives. He wished to see it fully involved in elaborating the second phase of the Multi-stakeholder Concerted Program (PCPA), reaffirming his commitment to strengthening this cooperation.
At this meeting, the GRDR president presented his association, founded in 1969, and structured according to a policy of local roots in West Africa and France.
This decentralized organization guarantees a permanent presence for the association among the inhabitants of these regions, a proximity that has enabled it to become a privileged interlocutor of local authorities and to work to promote sustainable development in partner countries.
The GRDR President then detailed the organization’s flagship program in Mauritania: the Multi-stakeholder Concerted Program (PCPA): seed of citizenship, financed by the French Development Agency (AFD) and the European Union (EU).
He also highlighted the importance of the role played by the Commissioner’s Office as an institutional partner, which actively participates in the Steering Committee and will be present at the Plenary Assembly to be held on 20 and 21 November in Nouakchott, adding that this collaboration guarantees a synergy essential to achieving the program’s objectives.
In addition, the GRDR team reviewed the CAFAM initiative, an ongoing activity aimed at training facilitators to support young people and strengthen their civic engagement.
Additional themes addressed by GRDR, particularly food security and migration, were also mentioned, illustrating the diversity of the organization’s fields of action in Mauritania.