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The World Bank in Mauritania

The World Bank is supporting the government improve living standards through the following areas: mining and energy, rural development, urban development and more.

Irrigation Power in the Sahel

Combatting Food Insecurity

PARIIS relies on a combination of simple technologies and local know-how to irrigate the land and multiply its potential.
Powering up Africa

Power Interconnection Project

The construction of a high-voltage and advanced power network helps provide a continuous supply of electricity.
De bénéficiaires à prestataires

Cet épisode dest consacré aux progrès du SWEDD, le projet de la Banque mondiale pour l’autonomisation des femmes et le dividende démographique au Sahel, et au-delà du Sahel.

Mauritania At-A-Glance

Mauritania is essentially a desert country, with vast expanses of pastoral land and only 0.5% of arable land. According to the National Statistics Office, Mauritania has a population of about 4 million (2018), and a population density of 3.9 inhabitants per square kilometer, making it the fourth least densely populated country in Africa. By 2020, the country will have more urban than rural inhabitants...

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Regional Sahel Pastoralism Support Project

Since 2015, the PRAPS has directly supported more than two million livestock herders in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.

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Keiko Miwa

Country Director for Cabo Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Senegal

Cristina Isabel Panasco Santos

Country Manager

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In Depth

Mar 21, 2024

Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program

SASPP is a multi-donor trust fund managed by the World Bank that supports the strengthening of adaptive social protection systems in the Sahel to enhance the resilience of poor and vulnerable populations to the impacts ...
Apr 05, 2024

Africa’s Pulse

Short term economic prospects for the continent, its current development challenges.
Sep 12, 2023

CPIA Africa

The 2023 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report covers the period January to December 2022. The overall average score for Sub-Saharan Africa’s IDA-eligible countries remained unchanged in 2022 ...
Apr 05, 2024

IDA Impact in Africa

With IDA’s help, hundreds of millions of people have escaped poverty—through the creation of jobs, access to clean water, schools, roads, nutrition, electricity, and more.
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