Mauritania 2nd Competition & Skills DPF (WB-P171238)

Countries
  • Mauritania
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Proposed
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
U
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Jun 1, 2020
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
  • Law and Government
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
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 Jun 16, 2020

Disclosed by Bank Jun 2, 2020

Contribute Information
Can you contribute information about this project?
Contact the EWS Team

Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to bank documents, the program objective is to support the Government of Mauritania (GoM) in strengthening the business and competition environment while increasing climate resilience and human capital for private sector led growth.

The updated reform framework aims at creating Jobs through Economic Transformation (JET) and builds on strengthening market efficiency and connectivity (Pillars 1 and 2), while increasing climate resilience and human capital for private sector led growth (Pillar 3):

  1. Pillar 1 supports reforms in SMEs’ business environment. This pillar focuses on strengthening access of economic agents to an efficient and transparent commercial justice system and to reliable information on companies and collateralized assets. These reforms will strengthen the Government’s objectives to modernize and diversify the economy, level the playing field among economic agents, reduce time and costs to enforce contracts for SMEs, improve commercial dispute resolution between economic actors,
    strengthen insolvency regimes, and improve access to credit. Ultimately, this will increase the attractiveness of the country for both national and international investors.

  2. Pillar 2 supports reforms of the broadband digital infrastructure. This pillar focuses on removing barriers to investment and competition in the internet broadband market and facilitating equitable access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) / digital services. It does so through regulatory reforms that: (i) open the internet retail and wholesale market up for competition and new entrants; (ii) promote access to dominant operators’ essential infrastructure and reduces the costs for deploying digital infrastructure; and (iii) boosts sustainable financing and more projects in underserved areas, especially rural ones. The goal is for low-cost, high quality, broadly accessible ICT services to boost the overall productivity of the economy, enhance new business opportunities for private sector development, and leverage technology for more efficient and accessible service delivery.

  3. Pillar 3 supports reforms to strengthen human capital. The aim is to boost resilience to climatic shocks while improving the quality and demand driven nature of education and skills development. On one hand, reforms will provide for a functional institutional and financial framework to respond to climate related shocks (droughts and floods) with the objective to assure food security. On the other hand, reforms aim at improving school autonomy and teachers’ competence, recruitment systems, and effective deployment. The program also supports measures to overhaul the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) governance systems especially for financing, training and curriculum. It also crowds-in the private sector to boost the relevance of the training offered and align it with labor market demands. These reforms are essential to improve the quality and relevance of skills provided by the national education system and as a result boost the competitiveness of the private sector and long-term productivity.

Investment Description
Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

Contact Information
This section aims to support the local communities and local CSO to get to know which stakeholders are involved in a project with their roles and responsibilities. If available, there may be a complaint office for the respective bank which operates independently to receive and determine violations in policy and practice. Independent Accountability Mechanisms receive and respond to complaints. Most Independent Accountability Mechanisms offer two functions for addressing complaints: dispute resolution and compliance review.

World Bank:
Markus Kitzmuller, Arthur Denis Pascal Foch, Cristina Navarrete Moreno
Senior Economist

Borrower:
Ministry of Economy and Industry
Mohamed Salem Nany
DG of Public investment and International Cooperation
mselamnany@gmail.com

Implementing Agency:
Ministry of FInance
Moctar S. El Mouna
DG Reform
elmouna.mo@gmail.com 

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF WORLD BANK

The World Bank Inspection Panel is the independent complaint mechanism and fact-finding body for people who believe they are likely to be, or have been, adversely affected by a World Bank-financed project. If you submit a complaint to the Inspection Panel, they may investigate to assess whether the World Bank is following its own policies and procedures for preventing harm to people or the environment. You can contact the Inspection Panel or submit a complaint by emailing ipanel@worldbank.org. You can learn more about the Inspection Panel and how to file a complaint at: https://www.inspectionpanel.org.

How it works

How it works