Cabinet Approves Funding Agreement Between Mauritania, International Development Association

The Council of Ministers met on 06 July  2023 under the chairmanship of His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, the President of the Republic.

The Council studied and approved a draft law allowing the ratification of the financing agreement signed on 8 June 2023 between the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the International Development Association, intended to contribute to financing the project for harmonizing and improving statistics in West and Central Africa.

This draft law aims to improve countries’ statistical performance, regional coordination, access to and use of data, and promote the modernization of the statistical system in participating countries.

At the national level, the current project comes in support of the five-year priority action plan (2021-2025) of the last ten-year national strategy for statistical development (2021-2030), which aims to build an effective and credible statistical system by 2030 equipped with adequate resources and an appropriate legal and regulatory framework where its outputs meet the national development policy needs and those of the user.

At the regional level, the project will support the National Agency for Statistics and Demographic and Economic Analysis to align the African Commission for the Coordination of Statistics Strategy 2017-2026 of the African Union Commission with regional and global commitments for the best follow-up of the Sustainable Development Goals.