Mauritania First Competition and Skills DPO (WB-P167348)

Countries
  • Mauritania
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Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
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Project Status
Proposed
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Bank Risk Rating
U
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Voting Date
Apr 23, 2019
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of Mauritania
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Communications
  • Education and Health
  • Industry and Trade
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Investment Type(s)
Grant
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Investment Amount (USD)
$ 30.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 30.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Jan 16, 2019

Disclosed by Bank Sep 13, 2018

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Project Description
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The series is designed to support the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in building the foundations for a faster and more sustainable private sector-led growth through modernizing the commercial justice and registry services, removing the barriers to investment and competition in the internet broadband market, and improving the quality and relevance of skills provided by the national education and training systems.

The program supported by the DPO series is articulated around three pillars:

  1. Pillar 1 supports the modernization of business rights through reforms in commercial justice and commercial registry. This pillar focuses on strengthening access of economic agents to an efficient and transparent commercial justice system and to reliable information on companies and assets.
  2. Pillar 2 supports reforms for removing barriers to investment and competition in the internet broadband market, and facilitating equitable access to ICT services. Reforms aims to i) open the internet retail and wholesale markets up for competition and for new entrants, ii) promote access to the dominant operators’ essential infrastructure and reduces the costs for companies to deploy digital infrastructure, and iii) boost sustainable financing for ICT projects in underserved areas, especially rural ones. Boosting competition in the sector enables the provision of low-cost, high quality access to the population for these services.
  3. Pillar 3 supports improving the quality and relevance of skills provided by the national education and training systems through reforms to teachers’ management and to labor market-oriented vocational training. This pillar tackles reforms to improve teachers’ training and competence, recruitment systems, and effective deployment.
Investment Description
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World Bank:
Wael Mansour, El Hadramy Oubeid
Senior Economist

Borrower:
Ministry of Economy and Finance
Abass Sylla
Director General of Public Investment and International Coop
aysylla@yahoo.fr

Implementing Agency:
Ministry of Economy and Finance
Abass Sylla
Director General of Public Investment and International Coop
aysylla@yahoo.fr 

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